Monthly Archives: November 2008

The Role of Fatah

Frontpage Interview's guest today is Jonathan Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center. He has served as a counterterrorism analyst at the U.S. Department of Treasury and as a research fellow at Washington...

THE REAL ISSUE IN HEBRON

Incongruously named Beit Hashalom (House of Peace), that building on the road from Kiryat Arba to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron has become a source of confrontation and altercations between the Defense...

ROCKETS FLY,THE UN LIES

The Ambassador hotel in Jerusalem was the setting, on Wednesday, November 26, for a press conference called under UN auspices to announce the launching of the "2009 Consolidated Appeal," a fund-raiser with a goal...

Insight in the News in Israel

Posting: November 26, 2008 "So, Nu?" Last night at an Anglo Likud Forum at which some of the candidates for the Likud list spoke, I heard constitutional lawyer Yosi Fuchs -- founder of Forum for the...

Iran, Hamas Declare Cyber War On Israel

Declassified Israeli intelligence reports issued this week report that both Iran and Hamas have made a coordinated strategic decision to make extensive use of the Internet to wage their battle for hearts and minds. Between...

Hezbollah Triples Its Strength

Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister, expressed alarm Tuesday at Hezbollah's apparent growth as a threat to the Jewish state. "Hezbollah's strength at present is triple its strength at the end of the Second Lebanon War,"...

IDF presence in West Bank prevents the rockets that have terrorized Sderot and Ashkelon

From a hilltop on the outskirts of Kalkilya, the soldiers of the 55th Artillery Battalion can see the lights of Tel Aviv shimmer in the distance. It is a constant reminder to them of...

Covering JFK’s Funeral: Memories from 45 Years Ago

When everyone around you undergoes a traumatic experience, especially at a young age, you remember finite details of that experience for the rest of your life. And so it was for me with the...

More Rockets Hit Ashkelon

It was a stormy weekend for the Jewish communities around Gaza. Five Qassam rockets and two mortar shells were fired at Israel. On Friday, two Qassam rockets landed south of Ashkelon and two mortar shells...

Israel Responds To IAEA’s Iran Report

The Israeli government issued a stinging statement to the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) concerning military aspects of Iran's nuclear activities n Wednesday.
 The government statement accused Iran of an " evasive and manipulative practices", going...