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...

Mordechai Kedar: The Arab World on the Precipice

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/mordechai-kedar-the-arab-world-on-the-precipice/2012/07/30/0/ Although I do not generally do so, I will open with an Arabic joke, because in the Arab world (and perhaps in other places as well) people often use humor to speak the truth...

Is Barack Obama Prejudiced Against Arabs?

http://www.weeklystandard.com/AUTHOR/NOAH-POLLAK#latest-article The press is having fun today amplifying the complaint of Palestinian "negotiator" Saeb Ereikat that comments Mitt Romney made in Jerusalem yesterday are "racist." What was Romney's offense? In the course of expressing amazement...

Thank Heaven (and Israel) that Syria’s Assad Doesn’t Have Nukes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-elsner/thank-heaven-and-israel_b_1719452.html As the death toll mounts in Syria and the country slides deeper into civil war, the world should be thankful that the Assad regime never succeeded in developing nuclear weapons -- which almost happened...

US Authorizes Financial Support For the Free Syrian Army

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2012/al-monitor/us-authorizes-financial-support.html The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) last week, Brian Sayers, of the Syrian Support Group, told Al- Monitor in an interview Friday. “The OFAC decision is huge,”...

Have the skeletons of the Temple Mount massacre been found?

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216 Jews, Christians or Muslims? An image from the film of the skeletons. Photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch Remains of thousands of Jews massacred by the Romans on the Temple Mount at the time of the destruction...

Challenging an obituary to PM Shamir: Letterto the Editor, Translated from Dutch to English

NRC AH Letters Editor Amsterdam, 03.07.2012 Dear Sir, The obituary of your Israel correspondent, Leonie van Nierop, re Yitzchak Shamir is quite biased. It was mentioned in this obituary as though the reliability of Israel’s Arabs adversaries is rather...

Egypt and Hamas have reported an agreement

http://www.menewsline.com Egypt and the Hamas regime agreed to cooperation on border security as well as an increase in the flow of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip. They said Hamas Prime Minister...

Chemical weapons and missiles reaching Hezbollah: Israel’s

The eyes of the IDF Intelligence Branch are on Damascus, for three reasons. The first involves the possible flow of chemical and biological weapons out of Syria into Hezbollah’s hands in Lebanon. The second is if...

Syrian nightmare for Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4260723,00.html Intelligence information collected and analyzed by the CIA shows that Israel has many causes for concern about the day after Assad. It turns out that there is a fundamental gap between what the White...