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Israeli history photo of the week: The Jews' wailing place
Seeded on Thu Aug 2, 2012 12:30 PM EDT (JPost.com)
The Library of Congress has recently digitalized a collection of over 10,000 photographs, taken by the "American Colony" in Jerusalem, a group of Christian utopians who lived in Jerusalem between 1881 and the 1940s. The photographers returned to the US, and bequeathed their mas …
Palestinians arrested for eating on Ramadan
Seeded on Thu Aug 2, 2012 11:16 AM EDT (The Times of Israel | The one-stop site for Israel, the region & the Jewish world)
he Palestinian Authority arrested six men across the West Bank this week for publicly breaking the fast of Ramadan, news watchdog Palestinian Media Watch reported Wednesday. The official Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah reported earlier this week that five Palestinian men …
Ahmadinejad calls for annihilation of Israel
Seeded on Thu Aug 2, 2012 9:16 AM EDT (JPost.com)
In a speech published on his website Thursday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the ultimate goal of world forces must be the annihilation of Israel.
Hamas blasts Palestinian official's Auschwitz trip | The Times of Israel
Seeded on Wed Aug 1, 2012 10:06 PM EDT (The Times of Israel | The one-stop site for Israel, the region & the Jewish world)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Gaza’s ruling Hamas has criticized a Palestinian official for visiting a memorial at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz and paying respects to its 1.5 million victims there, most of them Jews. Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum, expressing the I …
White House: 'Scratching heads' on Romney Jerusalem remarks
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:28 PM EDT (JPost.com)
White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Tuesday said that US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's unqualified comments about Jerusalem as solely Israel's capital was causing many to "scratch their heads."Earnest further said that Romney would need to explain himself to …
Israeli surgeons fix Latvian boy's right hand
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:34 PM EDT (JPost.com)
Kyril, a 12-year-old boy from Latvia whose congenital defect made it impossiblefor him to eat, scratch or do anything else with his right hand, is now able tofunction normally and return home, thanks to surgeons at Rambam Medical Centerin Haifa.Kyril suffered from brachial plex …
Palestinian groups slam Fayyad for Romney meet
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:13 PM EDT (JPost.com)
Fayyad was quoted Monday as saying that this was the second time that he had met with Romney.He said that he met with the Republican candidate not on a personal basis, but in his capacity as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, whose president is Mahmoud Abbas.Fayyad&rs; …
Romney's Remarkable Speech in Jerusalem
Seeded on Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:14 AM EDT ()
Mitt Romney, the all-but-official Republican presidential candidate, delivered a stem-winder of a speech to the Jerusalem Foundation today, packing emotional support with frank policy statements. The contrast with Obama could hardly be more dramatic. Indeed, one could go throug …
India, US looking to learn from Israel's border security
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:23 PM EDT (JPost.com)
Growing number of countries flock to Israel to study construction of Egypt border fence; India to send delegation to review technologies for its fence with Pakistan, Bangladesh; US examining Elta radars for Mexico barrier.
Turkey's Hypocrisy Over Gaza
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2012 11:26 AM EDT ()
But it is Turkey’s last demand, that Israel lift its legal blockade of Gaza, which really stands out due to its hypocrisy. Almost unmentioned by the mainstream media during the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident was the fact that while Turkey was bitterly complaining about the Is …
Is the two-state solution doable?
Seeded on Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:47 AM EDT ()
American support for self-determination is very selective. America doesn’t support such a right for the Kurds, the Basques, the Tibetans and so on and they are each a real people, not an “invented people”. The Balfour Declaration, the legally binding decision …
Netanyahu flatly denies AP story on Israelis spying on CIA
Seeded on Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:31 PM EDT (The Times of Israel | The one-stop site for Israel, the region & the Jewish world)
he Prime Minister’s Office on Saturday denied the content of an Associated Press article suggesting Israeli agents spy on their American colleagues stationed in Israel and constitute a counterintelligence threat to US interests.In an unusually brief SMS message to Israeli …
It is Our Jerusalem, Our Capital, Our Temple Mount
Seeded on Sat Jul 28, 2012 6:40 PM EDT (Arutz Sheva News Briefs)
A note to the BBC before the Olympic Games begin. And a reminder to the Arab world. When Jordan's Arab Legion seized half of Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed its Jewish population and annexed the city-- the only entity to recognize the annexation was the United Kingdom which had p …
No BDS for This Intractable Middle East Conflict
Seeded on Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:43 PM EDT ()
July 26, 2012: The Prime Minister "warned that it might take action to stop groups it deemed 'terrorists' from forming" an autonomous region. "No one should attempt to provoke us. If a step needs to be taken .... we would not hesitate to take it." Fox News July 25, 2012: "... …
Exclusive: U.S., Lockheed reach deal on Israeli F-35s
Seeded on Thu Jul 26, 2012 10:33 PM EDT (Reuters)
The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp on a $450 million program to enhance electronic warfare equipment on the F-35 fighter jet, and integrate Israeli-unique systems beginning in 2016, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.
After delays, massive US bunker-buster available
Seeded on Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:15 PM EDT (JPost.com)
In face of possible military intervention in Syria and a strike against Iran, the United States has announced that its largest bunker-buster missile capable of penetrating underground facilities is operational and ready for use if needed.Called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator ( …
Muslim Persecution of Christians: June, 2012
Seeded on Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:15 AM EDT ()
U.S.-backed rebels are committing Christian genocide in Syria, where they are sacking churches and issuing threats that all Christians will be cleansed from rebel-held territory. A mass exodus of thousands of Christians is taking place, even as mainstream Western reporters, suc …
Settlers celebrate passing 350,000 mark; Peace Now says figures are inflated | The Times of Israel
Seeded on Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:07 AM EDT (The Times of Israel | The one-stop site for Israel, the region & the Jewish world)
Jewish settlers in the West Bank Judea and Samaria have crossed the 350,000 mark this year, according to new Interior Ministry figures. As of July 2012, some 350,150 Jewish settlers live in Jewish communities in the West Bank, 15,580 more than last year. If the settlement …
Honorary Settler Award Given to Head of "Peace Now"
Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:37 PM EDT ()
The Shomron Council awarded Yariv Oppenheimer, head of “Peace Now “, with a certificate of honorary citizenship in the Shomron.The award was given in recognition of his actions that inadvertently resulted in three settlements and outposts becoming officially recogni …
Israel's top 45 greatest inventions of all time
Seeded on Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:52 AM EDT ()
A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera. Photo courtesy of Bloomfield Science Museum “Inventors for a Day” tap into their creative side at the Inventions, Inc. exhibition … …
Two Men Detained At US Border For Carrying Chocolate Eggs
Seeded on Tue Jul 24, 2012 2:31 PM EDT ()
In the past year, there have been stories of travelers getting in trouble for painting their nails on flights, telling jokes on Twitter and traveling with baked goods. The most recent scandal in the world of surprising travel crimes, involves two men trying to cross the border …
'Israeli War on Hizbullah if It Gets Bio-Weapons'
Seeded on Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:38 AM EDT (Arutz Sheva News Briefs)
Israel is prepared to intervene militarily if Hizbullah gets a hold of Assad’s chemical weapons, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned in Brussels on Tuesday."In the moment we see that the Syrians transfer chemical and biological weapons to Hizbullah, this is a red li …
WALSH: Myth of a two-state solution - Washington Times
Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:50 AM EDT (The Washington Times)
It has been 64 years since the United Nations General Assembly approved the Partition Plan for Palestine and the struggle to implement a “two-state solution” began. Today, we are no closer to that end. That reminds me of the definition of insanity: doing the same th …
Israeli Settlements an Obstacle to Peace?
Seeded on Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:54 AM EDT ()
For four centuries the West Bank and east Jerusalem were provinces of the Turkish unOttoman Empire; after that, from 1922 until 1948, they were ruled by Britain under the Mandate given it by the League of Nations. These areas have never been under any Arab sovereignty. The Pale …
Mahmoud Abbas' connections to the Munich Olympics massacre
Seeded on Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:49 PM EDT ()
Though he didn't know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack. Abu Mazen could not be reached for comment regarding Abu Daoud's allegation. After Oslo in 1993, Abu Mazen …
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