Al-Aqsa Brigades in Gaza graduate a class of fighters

A class of fighters trained by the Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah's armed military wing, graduated on Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip. The group stated during the graduation ceremony, that they intend to continue armed resistance...

Report: Iran supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles

Al-Quds al-Arabi reports missiles can accurately hit targets in Israel, weapons to be used by Lebanese organization in event that Israel or US launch attack against Islamic republic Iran has supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles...

Abie Nathan’s legacy from the Yom Kippur War

On Yom Kippur 5734 (1973), when planes flew overhead and there were rumors of an impending war on two fronts, we came home from synagogue and listened to the only station that was broadcasting...

PR Success for Israel’s Enemies

I met the Free Gaza Movement group in Cyprus. The Israel Ministry of Defense allowed the Free Gaza Movement boats to land in Gaza, after the Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak determined that there...

Incisive News Diary

Posting: August 25, 2008 "Words, Words" What shall we call it? A lot of hot air? Declarations "signifying nothing"? Barak said that Labor would resign the coalition if the budget were unsatisfactory. Shas ministers said they'd leave...

UNIFIL Commander Graziano Denies Hezbollah Rearming

Major General Claudio Graziano, force commander of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), took questions from reporters on on the situation in Lebanon yesterday. Mr. Graziano, blaming Israel and exonerating Hezbollah in regards to...

Jewish Group Calls On Obama To Cancel Carter Convention Speech

There is an unwritten rule that synagogues in the United States do not intervene in partisan American politics. On Thursday, one of the largest synagogue organizations in the United States, the National Council of Young...

Israelis Under Fire Receive Boost From Philadelphia

When Hamas fired two Katyusha rockets into the southern Israeli city of Netivot, on May 24, the city officially joined the ranks of Sderot and kibbutzim along the border as a target for Gaza-based...

Israeli Security Sources: Hamas Recruiting, Training Young People

Senior Israeli security sources confirm that Hamas terrorists have recruited thousands of young people, who have been undergoing intensive military training to prepare them for the next round of warfare against Israel. The new...

Insight Behind the News in Israel

Posting: August 8, 2007 "Tisha B'Av" Immediately upon the close of Shabbat tomorrow night begins Tisha B'Av (the ninth of the month of Av), a day of Jewish national mourning because it is the day on...