It Isn’t Israel in Danger of Disappearing, It’s The People Who Think That Way

http://www.gloria-center.org/2011/10/it-isn%E2%80%99t- israel-in-danger-of-disappearing-it%E2%80%99s-the-people-who-think-that-way/ “...never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.” -John Dunne Rome, Italy I’m standing on the edge of the Roman Forum, by the Arch of Titus. This is the marble structure built by...

Teaching Journalists How to Report on Jihad

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/06/journalism-and-jihad/ Muslim-American advocacy groups with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR ) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC ), are on a mission to combat what they...

The Olive Tree Initiative and Terror

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/06/the-olive-tree-initiative-and-terror-1-1/ The danger of sending American college students on Olive Tree Initiative trips to the West Bank was underscored by the recent discovery of 13 Hamas terror cells and a foiled suicide bombing plot in...

Op-Ed: Hanan Porat, Man of Kiruv: An Accidental Connection

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10690#.To6od5sr2so Between Purim and Pesach in 1973, while learning at Pardes Institute in its first year, as I was just crossing the Rubicon to become an observant Jew, the opportunity presented itself to visit Kibbutz...

As war looms large, Israel is sticking its head in the sand

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/as-war-looms -large-israel-is-sticking-its-head-in-the-sand-1.383158 This week, the head of the Home Front Command, Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, said what he thought to the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. "It's being called the Arab Spring,...

Abbas Gives the Finger to Obama

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2454/abbas-gives-finger-to-obama By rejecting both of US President Barack Obama's requests -- to avoid a United Nations bid for Palestinian Statehood and to return to the negotiating table -- the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, is...

Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2010

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID= 1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=8920&TTL=Terrorist_Incidents_ against_Jewish_Communities_and_Israeli_Citizens_Abroad,_1968-2010 â— The phenomenon of terrorism against Jewish communities and Israeli targets abroad represents the most violent aspect of contemporary anti-Semitism, and the greatest physical danger to Diaspora Jewish communities. The rational calculations of political...

Truth and lies at the theatre of the absurd

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/ truth-and-lies-at-the-theatre-of-the-absurd.html Some 1941 years ago, the Romans conquered the ancient Jewish kingdom of Judea by force and attempted to expunge all memory of the Jews’ claim to the land by renaming the area Palestine. Two...

The Attack on Israel’s Embassy in Cairo

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/09/ the-attack-on-israel-embassy-in-cairo Western diplomats and journalists fell for Stalin's show trials but eventually learned not to accept developments in the Soviet Union at face value. In the Soviet Union's later years, a crowd assaulting a foreign...

Israeli Control of the Golan Heights: High Strategic and Moral Ground for Israel

Ever since Syria’s loss of the Golan Heights to Israel in the June 1967 Six Day War, the strategic plateau has been a matter of contention between the two states. Immediately after the war,...