Monthly Archives: April 2015

ISRAEL AS A “CATASTROPHE”: EUROPEAN-FUNDED NGOS THAT PROMOTE THE “NAKBA” NARRATIVE

In advance of Israeli Independence Day, NGO Monitor has documented a number of Israeli NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that mourn the establishment of the state of Israel as a “Nakba” (“catastrophe” in Arabic) and actively...

Women in uniform: New immigrants join IDF combat roles

Nina, 23, was born in San Francisco to a Jewish mother and an Iranian father, but she has always dreamed of moving to Israel. Rachael, 20, grew up on a pineapple farm in South...
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal PHOTO: REUTERS/FADI AL-ASSAAD

Iran Rekindles Relations With Hamas

Iran is the leading Shiite protagonist in the increasingly bitter conflict against rival Sunni Muslims in the Arab world, but lately that hasn’t prevented Tehran from rekindling one Sunni alliance. The ayatollahs are rebuilding...
Amb. Thomas Pickering testified before the House Armed Services Committee, about Iran's nuclear program on June 19, 2014. Photo Credit: YouTube screen capture

Brandeis Commencement Speaker Leads Iran Cheerleader Squad

All those concerned about the dangers of Iran obtaining the ability to produce nuclear weapons have been closely watching the negotiations between Iran and the U.S. and its partners in the P5+1. Perhaps no country...

Could Jewish Soldiers Celebrate Passover in Jerusalem in 1918?

In WWI, individual Jewish soldiers served in the ranks of the armies of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand and were involved in the 1917 battles in locations such as Be'er Sheva and Rishon...

UNRWA and HaAretz condemn “Children’s Army of Hamas”: Did they see even see...

On Saturday night, April 18, 2015, news anchor Yaakov Ahimeir, senior journalist with Israel Broadcasting Authority TV and host of the IBA weekend news program known as "Roiem Olam",  http://www.iba.org.il/olam/ screened   the clip, "Children's...

A new approach to Iran

Here are four facts that turn the whole Iran debate on its head: If Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon, it will. Sanctions have accomplished all they can accomplish, and maintaining them or strengthening them...

Lessons unlearned…writes Michael Kuttner

The eerie sound of a wailing siren throughout the length and breadth of the country drives home in no uncertain manner exactly what Yom Hashoah (Holocaust and Martyrs Remembrance Day) is all about. From the...

Bad, or worse? Depends on what the meaning of ‘S-300’ is

Readers will have seen by now that Vladimir Putin has lifted Russia’s 2010 ban on selling the S-300 air defense missile system to Iran.  For the record, this is bad.  There’s a certain amount...

Killing americans and their allies

Preface Iranian-supplied weapons have led to casualties across the Western alliance for Britain, Israel, and the United States. Tehran has used its weapons deliveries to fuel a number of regional insurgencies, like the Houthi revolt...