Monthly Archives: September 2013

Fighting for the Jewish State, Rosh Hashana 1947

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13796#.UidN8n9cViI On the morning of September 8, 1947 --less than a week before Rosh Hashana-- Londoners awoke to the startling news that a group of Jewish militants had been arrested in Paris as they prepared...

Turning Point: Obama and Israel, The Next Three Years

www.gloria-center.org It is not every day that one can announce a shift in world history, but this day is today. And we are now in a new era in the Middle East and the world....

Hamas Set to Launch New Targeted Terror Campaign in Jerusalem

Less than two years after a massive Palestinian prisoner release, Hamas has been planning mass-casualty attacks in Israel's capital. The Israel Security Agency has determined that Hamas rebuilt its military wing in the West Bank...

US Military Intervention in Syria: The Broad Strategic Purpose, Beyond Punitive Action

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11973 Until the publication of reports that Bashar Assad’s army carried out a large attack using chemical weapons in an eastern suburb of Damascus, Washington had not seriously considered military intervention in Syria. In light...

Linking Targets to Political Objectives in Syria

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/linking-targets-to-political-objectives-in-syria As Washington moves toward punitive action in Syria, the resultant military operation will presumably take one of two forms: either token strikes aimed at restoring the credibility of U.S. "redline" statements, or a serious...

A United States Attack on Syria: Implications for Israel INSS

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11991 On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron affirmed that a chemical weapons attack had taken place in Syria the previous week and "there was no doubt that...

Failed Foreign Policy

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13776#.UieKMxXn_IU Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win - rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality. Yet, these latter...

Rosh Hashana Eve: 8.081 million Israelis

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4425333,00.html The country grew by about 148,000 inhabitants: On New Year's Eve 5773, Israel's population stands at 8.081 million people - approximately 6.066 million of them Jews, 1.67 million Arabs and some 345,000 defined as...