Monthly Archives: July 2008

Jerusalem - A leading U.S. Navy commander said NATO should prepare for Iranian missile strikes on member states. U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet commander Vice Adm. Sandy Winnefeld said in a magazine article published this month...

Jerusalem - Hamas, on an official Web site titled "The Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades," dispatched congratulations to the family of the "martyr of bulldozer operation which took place in the occupied Jerusalem Hossam Dwaiyat," the...

Syria 'would break links with Iran' if America steps in to help it By Carolynne Wheeler in Jerusalem Sunday Telegraph (UK) Last updated: 12:11 a.m. BST 06/07/2008 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/2253080/Syria-%27would-break-links-with-Iran%27-if-America-steps-in-to-help-it.html Syria is ready to break off its...

Collective memories are usually celebratory, focusing on elements of the past that a society is most proud of. This is unfortunate. After all, societies stand to learn as much from their failures as from...

"My Search for the Soul of Zion" Series, Essay #6 Excerpt: "the Torah has a variety of mitzvos which remind us that HaShem, the Compassionate and Life-Giving One, is the true Owner of the earth...

In December 1998, preaching a gospel of socialist revolution that had gone blessedly unvoiced in the decade following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hugo Chávez won a landslide election for the presidency of...

Jerusalem - "The Iranians can't do to us anything that the Israeli civilian hasn't encountered already before," said Maj. Gen. (res.) Professor Yitzhak Ben Yisrael yesterday. Mr. Ben Yisrael is a member of the...

Jerusalem - An Egyptian weekly with ties to the Egyptian government, Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, reported that Hamas relayed to Cairo a few days ago a new videotape in which the Israeli POW Gilad Shalit, appears...

Jerusalem - An Arab resident of Jerusalem sped with a bulldozer down Jerusalem's busiest street just before noon yesterday, ramming buses and crushing cars. At least four people were killed in this unprecedented attack. Two...

Yediot Ahronot correspondent Alex Fishman reports in today's edition that according to senior Israeli security sources, Egypt has reduced it naval anti-smuggling activities as compared to the past. Palestinian boats loaded with people and suspicious...