Only A Song Is Left… Profile of Pnina Eisenman, whose poetry followed tragedy

Pnina Eisenman is an attractive 38-year-old Israeli women with an optimistic outlook on life. She works at the Israeli Government Press office in Jerusalem, assisting visiting journalists. Considering the tragedy she suffered four years...

Ari Shavit interviews former COS Ya’alon – slams the disengagement

... General (res.) Moshe Ya'alon, the chief of staff until shortly before the disengagement, spoke passionately by telephone from his current place of residence in Washington.... Lieutenant General (res.) Moshe Ya'alon: "There is no doubt...

Freeing Killers: A Price Too High to Pay to Free a Captured Soldier

This is not a popular piece to write. Noam Shalit, father of Gilad, the abducted soldier, has been quoted today in HaAretz and the Voice of Israel radio on Thursday, July 6th, that he urges...

Parting with a Son – The Asheris Mourn Eliyahu

Nestled on a hillside in the Shomron village of Itamar, Miriam and Yitro Asheri, parents of Eliyahu, kidnapped and murdered last week, sit on the low chairs of mourners in their living room. Seated facing...

A Shiva Call to the family of Eliahu Osheri, murdered this week

This week, the country was informed that Eliyahu, an 18 year-old boy from Itamar was also kidnapped. For some reason, Eliyahu's kidnapping did not generate the same publicity and media attention as Gilad's. Perhaps...

The Harmless Children of Hezbollah?: A German Perspective

Germans are squabbling about whether Israel's military strikes against Lebanon are justified. But how else can Israel defend itself against Hezbollah rockets? By staging sit-down protests along the Israeli-Lebanese border, perhaps? Should Israel stop defending...

Kidnapped According to the Terms of the “Prisoners’ Document”

Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen can announce his opposition to terrorist operations from now until whenever, but last night he was due to sign a document that states explicitly that terror attacks such as...

Restore the Power of Deterrence

We are still mourning the deaths of IDF soldiers Lt. Hanan Barak and Staff Sgt. Pavel Slutzker, and we are still praying for the safety of Gilad Shalit and his return home. And yet...

Hamas Strikes Military Position in Israel

For the first time since the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in August 2005, Palestinian insurgents from the Gaza Strip have struck a military position in the Jewish state. On Sunday, Hamas and the aligned Popular...

Pink Flawed or Pink Fraud?

Among the thousands of people who crowded the Neveh Shalom?s wide open fields to hear Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, you could discern hundreds of expat Americans in their forties, fifties and sixties....