American blogger Elder of Ziyon has pointed out a disturbing “sensitivity” of the “official U.S. VISA information and appointment services.” Of the countries listed on this government website, Cyprus does not have a flag and capital city. This is probably an indication of the United States’ displeasure over the island’s division between Turkey and Cyprus. Since this website is divided into rubrics representing countries, the rubrics separating between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv means that they represent two countries, but which? Since Israel does not appear on this list of countries, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem appear as some kind of unidentified, exterritorial…
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This week we mourn the passing of Avraham Goldman, Yonatan Suher, and Simcha Damri who were killed on Saturday, March 19 in a terrorist attack in Istanbul, Turkey. The three were a part of a culinary tour group that included 14 Israelis. Mehmet Ozturk, inspired by the malicious Jew-hatred that ISIS spreads worldwide, killed himself in the suicide bombing along with three Israelis and two others. Avraham Goldman and Yonatan Suher both held dual Israeli – American citizenship. Of the 36 wounded in the attack, 10 were Israeli. The wounded Israelis have been flown back to Israel after receiving preliminary…
After 450 rockets were fired at Israel between January and July, 2014, Israel undertook Operation Protective Edge with two objectives: “restoring security to Israeli civilians living under Hamas rocket fire” and “dismantling the Hamas tunnel network used to infiltrate Israel.” According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Hamas entered Israel through tunnels four times. The IDF destroyed 32 terror tunnels, 14 of which had openings inside Israel’s borders. In recent years, the threat from the tunnels is an entirely new dimension of the terror emanating from Gaza. Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi writes: “The attack tunnels create a new…
France threatened Israel with recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a nation-state only a day after Iranian business agreements were made with French companies – a deal worth several billion euros. Coincidence? As the saying goes, money talks. During Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s recent diplomatic tour of Europe, meetings took place with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Pope Francis, over twenty French business leaders, and French President Francois Holland. The business deals arranged included over 118 Airbus commercial planes and renovations for Iran’s Peugeot car plant, amongst others agreements. After the dangerous JPOA nuclear deal, Iran has emerged from its…
It isn’t hard to understand the cause of the “Middle East Problem” – even though the nations of the world have been trying to solve it for nearly 68 years. Watch this video from Prager University for the simplest explanation you’ll ever find of why there is no peace in the Middle East. Of course, when the world talks about “peace in the Middle East” the only problem they are referring to is Israel, because no one cares about the fighting between Muslim Arab groups. Only about the fight between Muslims and Jews.
Enjoy this special Christmas greeting from Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
This speech, given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 6, was not directly addressed to Obama. However, it’s clear that he understands what the American president does not: radical Islamic terrorism must be defeated. This is the speech Obama should have given after San Bernardino. In this address, Netanyahu dispels myths about the cause of terrorism, outlines the historic context of the Middle East turmoil, and lays out a strong plan to protect the West and Israel from this threat. He also exposes the true obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Here’s a hint: it’s not…
Fifteen years ago, Ouda Tarabin was falsely accused by the Egyptian government of spying for Israel. He was imprisoned for espionage, and this week was finally released after years of negotiations and sent home to Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu vouched for Tarabin’s innocence, and worked hard to secure his release. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this story is that Tarabin is not Jewish – he’s Arab, one of the nomadic Bedouin tribes who live in Israel and have a positive relationship with the Israeli government. The Egyptian government has a long, and often outlandish, history of accusing Israel of…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first Hanukkah candle Sunday evening with Border Police personnel at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and gave an uplifting message on the significance of Israel as a light to the world: “2,200 years ago, a handful of Jewish fighters arose and defeated what was then a global empire. This was before the rise of Rome. The Seleucid Greek empire was then very strong and – during the reign of Antiochus IV – very cruel. Indeed, the threat was to our unity and our greatness. The Maccabees fought, first of all to restore this [spiritual]…
Shachar Rabinovitch, age 13, wrote to retired Cambridge University professor Dr. Marsha Levine for help with a school project. The Israeli girl had questions about Dr. Levine’s field of study, the genetics of horse breeding. It was a simple and polite request from a child who shares Dr. Levine’s interest in horses and, coincidentally, her Jewish heritage. Any reasonable person would have expected an equally polite response, whether the academic researcher felt inclined to help or not. But shockingly the only reply Shachar received was full of hate. “I’ll answer your questions when there is peace and justice for Palestinians…