Rubin Reports: Israel is in Good Shape Because So Many Others Decided Not to...

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/rubin-reports/rubin-reports-israel-is-in-good-shape-because-so-many-others-decided-not-to-be/2012/07/13/ The more I think about Israel’s security situation at this moment, the better it looks. Obviously, this is counter-intuitive given the media bias, academic distortions, and campaigns for sanctions of various kinds. And, of...

Telling Israel like it is – in Arabic

I first met Boshra Khalaila in the Spring of 2010, at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy’s offices in Jerusalem. She was 24 at the time. Like me, she’d been alarmed by the public relations...

Gaza: Palestinian Rockets Unlawfully Targeted Israeli Civilians

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/24/gaza-palestinian-rockets-unlawfully-targeted-israeli-civilians (Jerusalem) - Palestinian armed groups in Gaza violated the laws of war during the November 2012 fighting by launching hundreds of rockets toward population centers in Israel. About 1,500 rockets were fired at Israel between...

Abbas’ hit parade

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=9667 On Friday, Dec. 31, 1993, the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, David Bublil and Haim Weizmann were stabbed to death in their sleep in an apartment in Ramle. One of the murderers...

The victims of Syria’s war finding care in Israel

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24998618 In the maternity unit at the Sieff Hospital in the Israeli city of Tzfat, the safe arrival of every baby feels like a minor miracle. But on the day we visited, there was one little...

Israel’s Elbit Wins U.S. Border Work After Boeing Dumped

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-27/israel-s-elbit-wins-u-s-border-surveillance-contract.html Elbit Systems Ltd. (ESLT) won a $145 million contract for border-surveillance technology, the Department of Homeland Security announced today on a federal website. The program may eventually reach $1 billion if legislation to rewrite...

Winning a Lose/Lose War

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383942/winning-loselose-war-victor-davis-hanson Once again neighboring enemies are warring in diametrically opposite ways. Hamas sees the death of its civilians as an advantage; Israel sees the death of its civilians as a disaster. Defensive missiles explode to save...

Rabbis for Human Rights Responds to David Bedein

David Bedein wrote in his April article, "Rabbis Who Ignore Human Rights", "Ten years ago, a group known as the Rabbis For Human Rights"... was formed to relate to the human rights and civil...

‘A’ Is for Arafat, ‘B’ Is for Bethlehem. Skip Zion.

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 7 Inside a modern, secular private school here, the first-grade boys and girls stuffed their Pokemon and Barbie backpacks into their cubbies and gathered on the blue rug for story...

Official PA radio news – P.B.C. V.O.P. (Voice of Palestine) Radio, March 1-2.V.O.P. Reacts...

Summary & Analysis In its Thursday and Friday broadcasts, V.O.P. has been almost mono-maniacally fixated on Israeli comments portending possible military action inside PA territory. Various PA ministers have-following the lead of Presidential Secretary Ta'ib...