The Mysteriously Missing Religious Alliance

Posted on: February 21st, 2013

Who's to blame for there being no religious bloc in the negotiations with the Likud?

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Google Makes a Fast (of Esther) Error

Posted on: February 21st, 2013

Google had a good idea on how to present the data.The only problem is, the data is wrong.

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Schumer Cites Hagel’s Tears, but Smears Jewish Conservatives

Posted on: February 21st, 2013

Schumer provided inaccurate information about other matters Wednesday morning. He said that "there is not a major Jewish organization against Hagel." That's not true.

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Hizbullah Fingered in Cyprus Terror Plot against Israelis

Posted on: February 21st, 2013

The noose tightened on Hizbullah Wednesday after a Swedish-Lebanese citizen on trial in Cyprus admitted that the terrorist organization recruited him to stake out areas where Israelis gather. Hossam Taleb Yaacoub traveled to Cyprus on business and with no ulterior motives, according to his lawyer, before Hizbullah hooked him into cooperating with it. Cyprus police [...]

Syrian Rebels Threatened to Take On Hizbullah in Lebanon

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

The Syrian Free Army warned Hizbullah Wednesday it will open a new front in Lebanon in the ongoing war against the Syrian-Hizbullah alliance if the terrorist organization continues to fight for Syrian President Bashar Assad. “”We are announcing and warning that if Hizbullah will not stop shelling the Syrian lands, villages and civilians from inside [...]

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Syrian and Lebanese News Agencies Claim Israeli Drone Downed

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Two news agencies in Lebanon and Syria claimed Wednesday evening that an Israeli drone was downed, possibly by a SAM anti-missile that was fired from Syria. The official Lebanese National News Agency reported, “The tail of a surface-to-air missile (SAM) fired from Syria fell in the outskirts of the Lebanese town of Deir al-Ashayer,” near [...]

Rubio Tells Peres, ‘Of Course’ Jerusalem is Israel’s Capital

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

US State Department spokesmen on several occasions have refused to give a straight answer to reporters’ questions concerning the location of Israel’s capital.

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Israel Awards First-Ever Oil Drilling Permit in Golan Heights

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Israel has awarded the first-ever oil drilling permit in the Golan Heights. On the eve of almost every high-level visit to Israel by US officials, the Israeli government habitually has angered the American government by coming up with an approval for building in Judea and Samaria or areas in Jerusalem that are claimed by the [...]

Aussie Zionists Furious at Reports of Mossad ‘Recruitment Camps’

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

The Zionist Federation of Australia blasted as “totally uninformed and mischievous” several claims in the media that Israel programs serve as recruitment camps for the Mossad. The Australian Broadcasting Corp last week delivered a bombshell report that linked “Prisoner X,” who committed suicide in an Israel prison two years ago, to Ben Zygier, a Melbourne-born [...]

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Sen. Rubio Tells Netanyahu US-Israel Partnership is Bipartisan

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomes on Wednesday Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, touted as one of the top possibilities to be GOP’s presidential candidate in 2016. They traded the usual pleasantries, the Prime Minister stating his gratitude for American support and Rubio pledging to back security in Israel. “You live in a challenging neighborhood but [...]

Gag Order Released: Two PA Arabs Beat Up Elderly Cab Driver

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Two Palestinian Authority Arabs have been indicted for beating unconscious a 70-year-old Israeli cab driver and stealing his vehicle after throwing him out of the taxi near Ramallah. The attack took place at night in January but was kept under wraps during the investigation until police released a gag order on Wednesday. Yaakov Levi had [...]

200 Palestinian Authority Arabs Riot, Hit Two Soldiers with Rocks

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

Palestinian Authority violence continued early Wednesday afternoon when approximately 200 Arabs in Samaria rioted and hurled rocks at soldiers who evacuated a small illegal village. Two of the soldiers were lightly injured and w ere treated on the spot. The IDF shot over the heads of the rioters to disperse them.

The Unbreakable Alliance

Posted on: February 20th, 2013

The voters decided.

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Shas and UTJ to Join Coalition by Week’s End

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

Shas and UTJ claim that they're joining the coalition. The question now is, who will be the last party to join?

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Likud-Beteinu Closes First Partner (updated)

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

It only took a month, but Likud-Beteinu finally managed to close a deal with its first coalition partner, Tzipi Livni’s HaTnua party. Livni will reportedly receive the Justice Ministry and be an inner cabinet member. Amir Peretz will serve as environmental protection minister, and Amram Mitzna will be chairman of the Knesset House Committees. It [...]

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Abbas Wants ‘Refugees’ in Israel but not in PA Politics

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

The Palestinian Authority is resisting demands by Arabs in foreign countries, called “refugees” by the United Nations, to have voting rights for PA elections, offering further proof that its only interest in the refugees is to use them as a tool for Israel to lose its Jewish majority. Ironically, the demographic issue is the favorite [...]

Report: Israel to Host Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Delegation

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

Egyptian representatives of Cairo’s Muslim Brotherhood government will visit Israel for talks on last November’s ceasefire with Hamas, according to UPI and the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency. Five Israeli officials reportedly traveled to Cairo on Sunday for the second time ion a week. Israel and Hamas are in effect holding indirect talks with Egypt as [...]

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Australia’s Jewish Community Breaks Silence over Prisoner X

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

Australian Jewish leaders have called for official investigations of the suicide death of “Prisoner X“ Ben Zygier, the alleged Mossad spy who hanged himself in an Israeli prison cell two years ago. “We look forward to the official inquiries publishing concrete information about the circumstances surrounding the death of Ben Zygier in the hope that [...]

Sen. Leahy Heads Congressional Group to Cuba to Lobby for Gross

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

Senator Patrick Leahy and six other Congressmen arrived in Cuba this week to lobby for the freedom of Alan Gross, who has been jailed since 2009 on charges of illegally distributing communications equipment. It is not known if they will be able to visit Gross before they leave today. A State Department official said that [...]

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Lapid: ‘Who, Me? Topple Netanyahu? Of course Not’

Posted on: February 19th, 2013

Future (Yesh Atid) party chairman Yair Lapid, who recently said he will be Prime Minister one day, has assured Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu he will not to bring down the next coalition before its term runs out, according to party sources. The latest report follows rumor after rumor, many  of them planted as part of [...]

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