IDF: Hamas steps up production of Qassam rockets in Gaza Strip

Senior Israel Defense Forces officers believe that Hamas has managed to overcome the technological barrier that has so far prevented it from stockpiling a large number of Qassam rockets. According to the officers, the group...

DEFENSE MINISTRY OPPOSED TO FORTIFYING HOUSES AGAINST KASSAM ROCKETS

(translation by ISRAEL NEWS TODAY) The Defense Ministry is opposed to the proposal to fortify all the residential homes exposed to Kassam rocket fire, at a cost of NIS 900 million. The reason is that...

FROM THE BATTLE FRONT OF THE “CEASE FIRE” IN SDEROT

Late Thursday night, on November 23rd, the people of Sderot were awakened by a missile fired from Gaza hot the mercantile center of Sderot. The news reported "no casualties" and the people of Sderot...

US Sec’y of State Rice Launches Initiative for Immediate Arms and Recognition of Palestinian...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is promoting a new initiative to establish a temporary, sovereign and armed Palestinian state Rice will try to promote her initiative soon through extensive international shuttle diplomacy, which...

OUST PERETZ FROM THE DEFENSE MINISTRY

Ehud Olmert spoke truthfully when, by proxy of his aides, he accused Amir Peretz of having implicitly encouraged the rioting at the Western Wall plaza. The publication of his letter to the prime minister...

Israel’s Deputy PM Falsifies Military Record on Knesset Web Site

Most recently, the credibility of Israel's Knesset Parliament was shaken when a reporter discovered that a new member of Israel's highest-elected body had falsely reported the university degrees that appear on the Israel's Knesset...

The Legacy of Shimon Peres: Durban Renewal

As Israel reels from the British academic boycott against it, the gathering of NGO's under the UN banner in 2001 in Durban, South Africa has not been forgotten. At that precedent-setting conference prominent Israeli, Palestinian...

Israel Struggles With PLO’s ‘Right Of Return’ Demands

With the genesis of the Oslo process in 1993, what escaped the attention of the mainstream media in Israel and abroad was the continuing insistence of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that all Palestinian...

On the Jewish Question in Annapolis

Herewith some thoughts about tomorrow's Annapolis peace conference, and the larger problem of how to approach the Israel-Palestine conflict. The first question (one might think it is obvious but apparently not) is, "What is...