Monthly Archives: July 2006

13 thoughts for war time: The Only quiet areas right now are Judea and...

Even the most extreme leftists are reconsidering: maybe it isn't about the occupation after all 1. I bought a flag for my car. Nothing special, small on a white plastic stand that sticks to the...

EVERY SECOND COUNTS: TRUE STORIES FROM ISRAEL, by Richard Oesterman, Gefen Publishing House, New...

The human face which lies behind every news story in Israel remains the bread and butter of every good reporter who covers the fledgling Jewish state. Richard Oesterman, a Danish born journalist who has covered...

When NGO’s Take Sides

This op-ed was originally published in The Jerusalem Post The war with Hizbullah, like all Israel's confrontations with terror groups in the past decade, includes a political front that is as important and complex as...

Apocalypse Postponed: The Process of Weakening Iran

The current conflict between Israel and Hizballah terrorists is the first step to weakening the power of Iran in the Middle East In an interview broadcast on July 23 on the Iranian News Channel, Iranian...

Judgment Day, Iranian Style

With the international community focused on Iran's quest to develop nuclear weapons, little attention has been paid to Tehran's preparations for a possible showdown with America and its allies. For more than a year,...

Israel agrees to halt Israel Air Force activity for 48 hrs

As the US Secretary of State left Israel, the Israeli government agreed to suspend air force activity in Lebanon for the next 48 hours. The agreement is meant to allow Lebanese to leave their...

Hizbullah: Israelis Killing Indiscriminately Because ‘Yahweh’ Is “Racist God”

Hizbullah's television station Al-Manar launched an unusually anti-Semitic attack on Israel this morning, when a featured commentator claimed that Jews were instructed to kill women and children. "What does their Torah say: it says kill...

Nazareth and the next war

We are not done yet with the current war in Lebanon and clear signs of the next war have become very apparent and from a city seldom in the news. Nazareth is an old...

The Knights of the Double Standard

There are occasions on which the moral dilemma, difficult and painful as it may be, requires that a decision be taken. In genuine moral dilemmas there is no easy or good decision. For example,...

Senior Israeli intelligence officer: ‘Our strategy isn’t working’

Israel's current strategy for countering Hezbollah activity in southern Lebanon "is not working... should be changed soon" according to an Israeli military intelligence officer. The officer's remarks echoed sentiments expressed by a growing number of...