Northern Samaria Taken Over by Islamic Jihad
Israel has assessed that an Iranian-sponsored insurgency group has taken over the northern West Bank.
The Israel Security Agency has determined that Islamic Jihad has imposed control over large parts of the northern West Bank....
Hizbullah’s Apology?
Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has surprised almost every pundit in Israel by admitting that "he made a mistake by not estimating Israel's forceful response to the kidnapping of two soldiers on the northern border".
Danny...
Olmert Forms Blue Ribbon Panels to Look Into Mishandling of War and Faces Attacks...
Following pressure from all sides of Israel's political spectrum, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in Israel's northern city of Haifa, which had been hit by 400 of the more than 4000 missiles fired...
Olmert, Nasrallah, and more
Well, first it was the issue of a suspected bribe that Olmert and his wife took -- conveyed by way of an apartment sold to them at $500,000 less than market value. And now...
The Current Danger of Hizbullah
What is Hizbullah's situation three weeks after the cease-fire, and where is it headed? The emerging picture is as follows:
It has, more or less, maintained a large portion of its military capabilities. Most of...
Teaching Destruction of Israel in the Mainstream Schools of the Palestinian Authority
As this is being written, in late August 2006, news wires around the world are running a story that Machmud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has launched a new peace initiative with Israel.
However,...
UNIFIL – Revealing Israeli Positions to the Hizbullah
DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution:
They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of...
Figs on RoshHodesh: A personal note
A PERSONAL THOUGHT
A simple request from my wife, Sara, before Shabbat. "Would you pick some figs off the tree in our yard for Shabbat"?.
This was the first time that our tree in the yard...
Commentary on the trying times for Israel
These are serious and somber times for Israel. No question about it. And to make light of it would be foolish and shortsighted.
Is the situation hopeless? Absolutely not. I was, in fact, quite irritated...