Yesterday, a story that could have ended in tragedy took a surprising turn. Five American yeshiva students were on their way to the Cave of the Patriarchs, a Jewish holy site located in the West Bank city of Hebron. The students were misdirected by their GPS, and ended up driving through a Hamas-affiliated neighborhood. The neighborhood was already engulfed in a riot, and as soon as the crowd saw the Jewish boys in their Israeli car they attacked. The enraged mob surrounded the car and hurled rocks at the passengers. A firebomb found its target and set the vehicle ablaze,…
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Rockets from Syria fell in the Galilee region last Thursday, and Israel responded to the intentional attack with a deadly strike against the Iranian-led Islamic Jihad terrorist cell that launched it. The exchange of fire threatens to rupture a 42-year cease-fire between Syria and Israel and ignite full-blown war. Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011, fighting between the Assad regime’s forces and Syrian rebels has occasionally spilled over into Israeli territory. Errant sniper fire and missiles have hit Israel before, but usually these incidents are not intentional. However, the four rockets launched into Israel on Thursday…
In the first two weeks of August, several “lone wolf” terrorist attacks across Israel have injured ten innocent people. The frequency of the attacks has alarmed many people, but security forces are on constant alert. Because of their diligence, no fatalities of innocent Israelis have occurred as a result of these attacks. Two separate stabbing attacks took place on Saturday. The first took place at a checkpoint in the West Bank, where a Palestinian man approached an IDF soldier to ask for water and then stabbed him when he turned to get the water. The attacker was subdued and taken…
While the world’s attention was focused elsewhere, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei quietly published a book that leaves no doubt he is committed to Israel’s destruction. What is surprising, however, is his strategy. In the 416-page volume, currently only available in Iran and secretly smuggled to the United States, Khamenei outlines his sinister plan to kill Israel slowly with decades of low-intensity warfare. By funding and arming multiple terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran intends to make life in Israel so unbearable and expensive that most of the country’s Jews choose to flee. Khamenei assumes a majority of…
Leon Wieseltier, established voice of Jewish American liberal intellectualism, published a blistering analysis of what he sees as President Obama’s naïve and arrogant foreign policy that produced the Iran Deal. Pointing out President Obama’s oft-stated desire to avoid the “rut of history,” Wieseltier argues that Obama’s whole foreign policy, but especially in regard to Iran, ignores established historical realities in favor of hope-centric experiments. The rut of history: It is a phrase worth pondering. It expresses a deep scorn for the past, a zeal for newness and rupture, an arrogance about old struggles and old accomplishments, a hastiness with inherited…
If there’s one thing Republicans running for president agree on wholeheartedly, it’s that President Obama and John Kerry’s deal with Iran is a huge mistake. Every single one of them understands the basic truth that the current US Administration can’t seem to grasp: Iran’s leaders can’t be trusted. The candidates didn’t mince words in their responses to last week’s announcement. Rick Perry, Former Governor of Texas: “President Obama’s decision to sign a nuclear deal with Iran is one of the most destructive foreign policy decisions in my lifetime. For decades to come, the world will have to deal with the…
At the same time President Obama inked a deal with Iran over its nuclear weapons program, thousands of passionately pro-Israel Christians from across the United States gathered in Washington, DC for the tenth annual Christians United For Israel (CUFI) summit. Lead by fiery San Antonio-based pastor, John Hagee, and Executive Director David Brog, CUFI brought 5,000 Christians together to hear from experts on Israel, Iran, and Middle Eastern affairs. The event included a Candidates Forum, featuring interviews conducted by legendary journalist Bret Stephens with all of the Republican presidential contenders to date. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the conference via…
As the US continues negotiations with Iran and seeks to ease Israeli concerns over their security, the State Department and Pentagon quietly approved a massive arms sale to Israel this week. The deal, worth $1.87 billion, provides Israel with thousands of missiles and laser-guided bunker-busting bombs for the Israeli Air Force. Congress is expected to approve the sale without difficulty within the next two weeks. In an official statement, the Pentagon said, “The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and…
Twenty-nine suspected Hamas operatives were arrested in an overnight raid in the West Bank on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed. The surprise operation was carried out jointly between the IDF, Border Police, Shin Bet security agency and the Israel Police. Those arrested, some of whom are senior Hamas officials who have served sentences in Israeli prisons in the past, were taken to Shin Bet facilities for investigation. The arrests were made following suspicions of Hamas-funded and directed plans to carry out terror attacks against Israel. Palestinian security officials said Wednesday the suspects were nabbed in and near the city…
Benjamin Netanyahu will remain Prime Minister of Israel for a fourth term after his party’s surprise victory in the recent Israeli elections. In his acceptance speech, Netanyahu outlined the challenges Israel faces in the coming years and revealed his deep sense of responsibility for protecting the future of each citizen. “It is with a deep sense of responsibility that I accept from you the task of forming a government. I must tell you that I am as moved as if this was the first time and I am well aware of the magnitude of the responsibility placed upon me. Citizens…