Monthly Archives: March 2009

Worsening Jail Terms For Hamas Convicts Is Offered As Tactic For Freeing Shalit

The failure of the negotiations in Cairo to bring about the release of Israeli prisoner of war Cpl. Gilad Shalit has prompted the Israeli government to announce measures geared to increase pressure on Hamas...

Kara: Launch Military Operation To Free Shalit

In the wake of the failure of the talks with Hamas to bring about prisoner of war Cpl. Gilad Shalit’s release, a Druze Likud Knesset member, Ayoub Kara, has called on the prime minister...

Hamas Ransom Too High To Rescue Shalit

The effort to bring about Israeli prisoner of war Cpl. Gilad Shalit’s release in the last remaining days of Israeli Prime Minister Olmert in office ended in utter failure. After two days of Egyptian-mediated intensive...

Victims’ Families Vow Revenge On Released Terrorists

While negotiations remain ongoing to ransom the Israeli prisoner of war, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians who were convicted of murder, the terror victims’ families are busily making preparations to...

Mainstream Media’s Reporting Aids Violence In The Mideast

At a time when many major cities may soon have no major newspapers, Philadelphia is still blessed with two. One of the beauties of two newspapers is that they serve as a check on...

Terrorists Murder Two Israeli Policemen

An Israeli police officer comforts a relative of slain police officer Yehezkel Ramzarkar yesterday. (Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP) Two Jewish Israeli traffic policemen, identified as David Rabinowitz and Yehezkel Ramzamkar, apparently stopped to help a driver who...

Israel Returns Weapons To Fatah

On March 12, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot confirmed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have issued operational orders, as their tenures draw to a close, for the Israeli army to...

Source: Hamas Allowed To Keep Platform In New Government

On March 13, United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said the United States government will not maintain relations with a Palestinian government that includes any organization that maintains a state of war with...

Palestinian Authority TV Celebrates Major Terror Attack

Palestinians walk in front of a graffiti showing Hamas militants in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip yesterday. The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation has been airing a television special praising a terror attack that...

TV quality interviews with Hamas convicts serving life sentences who may be freed by...

Last year, the Center for Near East Policy Research commissioned two reporters to interview Hamas members who are serving life sentences for multiple murders. These interviews are now newsworthy, since these are the Hamas convicts...