Monthly Archives: May 2008
Israelis To PM: Roadblock Removal Will Cost Lives
Jerusalem -?Israeli residents of the southern Hebron hills are fearful and angry over the removal of a major IDF roadblock in the area demanded by visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Hebron Hills Regional...
Incisive News Diary
Posting: May 5, 2008
"Who Knows?"
Who knows how this latest potential scandal with Olmert will play out...
In spite of the fact that police are arguing that the investigation and its legal implications takes precedence over...
Carter’s Great Gaffe: Hamas Will Recognize Israel?
In what will assuredly be seen as one of the greater gaffes of his career, former president Jimmy Carter dramatically reassured a packed crowd of diplomats and reporters this week that Hamas would now...
We Cease, They Fire: Anatomy of a Ceasefire Disaster
"Hamas could learn both positive and negative lessons from the last round of escalation. On the positive side, it succeeded in consistently and systematically launching rockets at Israel, extending the rockets' range to Ashkelon,...
Israel’s Predicament at 60
Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan.
They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....
Investigations Of Beit Hanoun Incident Exonorate Israeli Army
Jerusalem - Aerial photographs of the Israeli Defense Force's (IDF) bombardment of armed men in Beit Hanoun in Gaza last Monday prove that Maseir Abu Muatak and her four children were evidently killed by...
Israel Likely To Reject Temporary Treaty Offer
Jerusalem - It appears that Israel will not accept the Egyptian proposal for a "hudna" (or temporary treaty) in the Gaza Strip.
All of the Palestinian terror groups announced that they would agree to a...
Israel And Jews Around The World Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jerusalem - A 24-hour period designated by Israel as Holocaust Remembrance Day concluded in the early hours of Thursday evening._During that night, all public institutions of the first Jewish state in 1,900 years devoted...
Arab-Israeli War Moves To Web
Jerusalem - The perpetrators of a "cyberterror attack" on the Bank of Israel have been disclosed for the first time: The six hackers who penetrated the bank's Web site last week and flooded it...