Syria’s Chemical Weapons May Not Be in Safe Hands

Posted on: December 10th, 2012

Those of us living just south of the Syrians intuitively understand how much more serious the consequences can be for us.

Indicators of the Road Ahead for Israel

Posted on: December 6th, 2012

Looking ahead, there's more than a little reason to take a sober view of the future.

Snapshots From a Country at War with a Terrorist Regime

Posted on: December 5th, 2012

What's happened the ceasefire went into effect.

Arch-Terrorist Khaled Mashaal Returning Victorious to Gaza

Posted on: December 2nd, 2012

While Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was on CNN, his Gaza-based Hamas colleagues were talking - in the Arabic language - about continuing the fight against Israel until the "liberation of all our lands, from the sea to the river."

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Photo Fraud in Gaza (Video)

Posted on: November 26th, 2012

The complicity of the media in Arab aggression against Israel.

When Hamas Rockets Land on… Gaza

Posted on: November 19th, 2012

The IDF says no fewer than 99 such explosive devices have 'fallen short' in the last four days.

A Pillar of Fire at Night: Iron Dome in Action Over Be’er Sheva (Video)

Posted on: November 18th, 2012

The reality of what is happening is much less poetic, but astonishing when you pause to think about it.

Rocket Attacks 8-9 a.m.

Posted on: November 15th, 2012

From personal messages received from family and friends, and from scanning the online sources - here are the rocket attacks, just in one hour this morning.

Getting the Message out to the Innocent Victims

Posted on: November 15th, 2012

As massive as the fighting is, the count of dead on the Palestinian Arab side has three, perhaps two, civilians. Let's hope the effectiveness of the Israeli fighters continues at that exemplary level.

In Gaza, Arab-on-Arab Injuries Are a Daily Reality, but Rarely Reported

Posted on: November 14th, 2012

In a small effort to correct that distortion, here is a status report from the Gaza NGO Safety Office.

Dramatic Sunday in Southern Israel

Posted on: November 12th, 2012

For hundreds of thousands of Israelis living in the south, yesterday was tumultuous in the worst way. Unstemmed rocket attacks have been conducted by one or another of the terrorist groups based in Hamas-controlled Gaza at all hours of the day and night. While it's tempting to look at the absence of deaths on the Israeli side, the reality is any one of these rockets and mortars can easily have exacted the heaviest of prices. It's our great fortune that this did not happen today.

The Delegitimization Warfare Begins

Posted on: November 11th, 2012

This picture has criss-crossed the blogosphere and Twitter network like crazy last night. It pretends to be an image of children who, along with the man lying on a stretcher next to them, were allegedly targeted today by Israel's forces for being terrorists. In reality, the picture is four years old. It has nothing to do with anything that happened in Gaza last night.

When Palestinians Blow Themselves Up, Before Reaching Israel

Posted on: November 8th, 2012

Since we believe Palestinian Arab casualties that result from Palestinian Arab mis-handling or misfiring of Palestinian Arab explosives, guns, rockets, mortars and the like almost never get reported in the mainstream news media, we will be watching to see how much coverage this incident below gets. It appears at this moment on a Bethlehem-based (and somewhat Hamas-hostile) Palestinian news site.

Morning Rocket Attack On Eshkol Region

Posted on: November 6th, 2012

Not that anyone is paying attention, but this morning a rocket was fired on the Eshkol Region, yet another rocket attack from Gaza.

Sinai Spinning out of Cairo’s Grip, Creating Major Headaches for Israel

Posted on: November 5th, 2012

Recently, we wrote here about the great landmass on Israel's southwestern border that "given its physical proximity to Israel, Sinai is not only an Egyptian challenge. That it gets such a small degree of media attention is a puzzle." Since then, there has been a new set of Sinai developments to absorb

What do “Palestinian elections” Actually Mean?

Posted on: November 4th, 2012

Those of us who live in countries where freedom of opinion, of worship, of political viewpoint and the right to express ourselves as we wish are core values tend to lose sight of life is like where those values don't exist. In the towns ruled by the Palestinian Authority, for instance.

US Supreme Court Affirms Conviction of White Collar Terrorists

Posted on: October 31st, 2012

Lingering doubts that remained about the criminality of the organization frequently called the United States' "largest Islamic charity" [NY Times] ended on Monday. That's when the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that it would not overturn an earlier appeal that went against five officials from Holy Land Foundation convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars to Hamas. That appears to be the final legal avenue open to the convicted men and concludes the case.

Egypt’s Sinai Problem and Ours

Posted on: October 30th, 2012

A striking photo essay from EgyptSource focuses on the stark realities of Sinai and the multiple challenges it poses to the Egyptians. EgyptSource, a project of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East "follows Egypt’s transition and provides a platform for Egyptian perspectives on the major issues – economic, political, legal, religious and human rights – that are at stake in the post-Mubarak era..."

Drumbeat of Terror Goes On But Most Don’t Realize

Posted on: October 29th, 2012

It's just after ten in the morning here on a bright, warm Autumn morning. A delightful, breezy day. Unless you are very determined, and even if you feel very connected to events, it's near impossible to get a meaningful sense of the sheer terror of living within range of the rocket men of Gaza. The thugs of the Hamas-dominated enclave are armed to the teeth with a rocket arsenal that numbers in the tens of thousands... and growing.

What We Know About Hezbollah

Posted on: October 23rd, 2012

Hezbollah, by most calculations, is the military force that has the largest deployment of weapons pointed at Israel today. It's Iran's proxy, and is funded and armed by Iran and also by Syria. In much of the Arab and Moslem world, it has long been called a resistance movement [see this Asia Times analysis from 2006]. Among Western countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada and of course Israel, it's been classified as a terrorist organization for years and remains so.