Monthly Archives: October 2008

Israel And Egypt: Growing Tension

Jerusalem - Relations between Israel and Egypt are tense. Both sides famously concluded a peace treaty in 1978 under the Camp David Accords, which led to Israel's return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt...

The Attack On Syria: Lessons And Questions

Jerusalem - Not all the details of last week's American attack on an isolated building on the Syrian-Iraqi border are sufficiently clear. It was evidently a raid by a small force that arrived in...

Netanyahu: No Deal On Jerusalem

Jerusalem - Israel's opposition leader is vowing that Jerusalem will not be part of any negotiations with the Palestinians, just as the campaign for Prime Minister of Israel has just gotten underway. "We will not...

Hamas Preparing For Strategic Terror Attack

Jerusalem - Israeli intelligence sources say Gaza's ruling Hamas faction is preparing to carry out a large-scale strategic terror attack inside Israel.
 In the assessment of security sources, the terror attack would mainly aim to...

IDF Intel Official: Syria Is Weapons Silo For Hezbollah

Jerusalem - Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, Israel's director of military intelligence, briefed Israeli government ministers at the weekly Israel government cabinet meeting about Hezbollah's current operations in Syria. "Syria is becoming Hezbollah's weapons silo," he...

Israel Elections?Likely At End Of January

Jerusalem - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who succeeded embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as head of the ruling Kadima Party, has decided that she would opt for early elections, and the political establishment found...

Israeli Police Destroy Home Of Jewish Leader In Hebron

Jerusalem - On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces allowed 600 Palestinian Police, previously deployed in Jordan and trained by the U.S. Army, to take control of all security in Hebron, including the hills overlooking...

An Appetite to Destroy

(The commentary below is an eye-witness account of the recent destruction of the Federman farm near Kiryat Arba. It is written by David Wilder, spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron) Destruction of Federman farm...

Arab Militant Murders 86-Year-Old Jew In Jerusalem

Jerusalem - On Thursday morning, Mohammad Elmadan, 21, a Palestinian militant from a small village near Bethlehem, stabbed and killed Avraham Ozeri, an 86-year-old Israeli Jew, at the entrance to the southern Jerusalem neighborhood...

Israel Gov’t Coalition Talks Reach Impasse

Jerusalem - Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has reached an impasse in her negotiations to form a new Israeli government coalition. Ms. Livni has less than two weeks to go before President Shimon Peres...