Bypassing the Suez Canal: Israel to Have China Construct The Eilat Railway

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2692&sec=1&title=Bypassing_the_Suez_Canal:_Israel_to_Have_China_Construct_The_Eilat_Railway The biggest piece of news that emerged from Israel this past week (July 3) is one you may have heard nothing about--but it is a game changer in terms of elevating Israel's economic/strategic position...

The February 2005 Israel government approved retreat map that has never been...

In March, 2005, Israeli government minister Yuli Edelstein made a seminal appearance at the Alon Shvut community center in Gush Etzion in which he assessed that the February 20, 2005 retreat decision of the...

“Radwan and Me: A Personal Perspective of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation”

Summary Three weeks ago, this writer requested an interview with Radwan Abu Ayyash, the Chairman of Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (P.B.C.), in Ramallah. P.B.C. is the parent of Voice of Palestine radio and Palestine television in...

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Thus Passes the Glory of the World

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-thus-passes-the-glory-of-the-world/2012/09/23/0/?print In the past, the United States was the "glory of the world", mainly after it came to the aid of Europe in the Second World War, the victory over Germany and Japan in 1945,...

Investigative Report: Green Olive Tours Promotes Palestinian Maximalist Claims Not In Accord with Any...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4326&sec=2&title=_Investigative_Report:_Green_Olive_Tours_Promotes_Palestinian_Maximalist_Claims_Not_In_Accord_with_Any_Two_State_Solution Before signing up to go a tour of Bethlehem and Hebron in the Palestinian territories given by Green Olive Tours, I had concerns about how they would portray the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. Now after...

Why Israel Opposes International Forces in the Jordan Valley

Israel's national ethos is one of self-reliance. International peacekeepers have been proven unreliable in the Middle East in every instance. The Israeli army has been deployed along the steep slopes of the Jordan Valley...

The Bombing at Mahane Yehudah and the Aftermath

My friend David, an American Jew in his mid-twenties, was shopping for fruit at the Mahane Yehuda marketplace in Jerusalem at approximately 1 p.m., July 30. Standing next to a watermelon stand, he realized...

Four Facts That Everyone Should Know About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/26/four-facts-that-everyone-should-know-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ A Haganah member and others during Israel's War of Independence. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most Westerners, including many Jews, are unaware of four fundamental facts about the Jewish homeland of Israel that would...

The Western Wall: Is it the Kotel or Al-Buraq Wall?

"The Shechina will never move from the Western Wall" according to an ancient tradition (Exodus Rabba 2.2). Originally, this saying did not refer to the present Western Wall which is part of retaining...

Why Does Hamas Want War?

http://www.danielpipes.org/14574/israel-hamas-war Politicians start wars optimistic about their prospects of gaining from combat, Geoffrey Blainey notes in his masterly study, The Causes of War ; otherwise, they would avoid fighting. Why, then, did Hamas just provoke a...