Tag: Hizbullah

Technically, the Lebanon war against Hizbullah is over. In fact, however, Israel remains starkly vulnerable to further rocket attacks, and - even more ominously - to a still-nuclearizing Iran. Making matters worse, Prime Minister Olmert has yet to openly change course from his indisputably catastrophic plan for "realignment" and "convergence."

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is attempting to distract the public from mounting dissatisfaction regarding his government's management of the war in Lebanon by resorting...

Unless you know your way around the blogosphere or get your news from publications like the Malaysia Sun, Australia’s Sunday Morning Herald or Germany’s Die Welt, you likely missed the story last week that some 84 Hollywood celebrities – actors, directors and producers – had signed an ad condemning Hizbullah and Hamas that appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Hollywood Reporter and Variety.

It was a war Israel was more afraid of winning than of losing.

On the heels of what it views as a Hizbullah victory against the Jewish state, Syria is forming its own Hizbullah-like guerilla organization to...

Israeli military intelligence officers have been asked not to talk to the media without prior authorization from their superiors concerning Israel's gains in Lebanon,...

What’s been most striking about the media coverage of the war between Israel and Hizbullah is the sheer familiarity of it all. It took many of the usual suspects about a week or so to get their preset narrative – both sides are blameworthy, Israel’s response is disproportional, an immediate cease-fire is the only answer, and can’t we all just get along? – up and running, but that’s exactly what happened as soon as Lebanese civilian casualties began to mount and inconveniences like background and context could be shunted off beyond camera range.

Thank G-d Netanyahu is not the prime minister. We live in a strange environment, where the Left can make war and the Right can make peace.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement last week that he will forge ahead with unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria - in spite of violence...

Who Are We?    Churning emotions, stirred up by the events unfolding in our Holy Land, ran the gamut from admiration for the brave Israeli...

International law is not a suicide pact. Israel's distinctly measured use of force against terrorist bases in Lebanon is entirely consistent with international law. Although some would mistakenly contend that Israel's essential actions express "aggression," the incontestable right of individual self-defense is plainly codified in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Indeed, by persistently allowing its territory to be used as a base of terrorist operations against Israel, it is Lebanon that is in flagrant violation of the charter.

In 1967 Israel defeated the combined armies of the Arab world in six days.

During U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to the Middle East, media outlets controlled by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party have...

Media coverage of the fighting between Israel and Hizbullah has gone largely as expected – CNN, The New York Times and other liberal outlets see events largely through a prism of Lebanese civilian casualties, while Fox News, the New York Sun and other conservative organs present a broader picture of Hizbullah provocations and the suffering of civilians on both sides.

People have very short memories.

JERUSALEM - Israel, fearing that Hizbullah sleeper agents are seeking to attack Israeli targets overseas, has raised the level of alert for its embassies and consulates worldwide, including in the U.S.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said this week he will forge ahead with his plan to withdraw from Judea and Samaria. This comes although Israel...

Next week the Monitor will examine aspects of the media coverage of Israel’s war on Hizbullah. This week, we take a stroll down memory lane, revisiting an early Monitor column from October 1998 (yes, the Monitor’s been around for nearly eight years now). The piece was titled “The Times Reverts To Old Hab-its,” and its conclusions should be kept in mind as one reads the paper’s editorials on the current fighting:

"All you do all day is threaten that there will be Katyusha rockets landing in Ashkelon.

Last week's attack by the Lebanese Hizbullah militia against Israel's northern border and the major Hamas raid two weeks prior that led to a...

Hamas is seeking the ability to attack Israel using small airplanes laden with explosives that would be flown, 9/11-style, into important targets such as...

Dear Mr. Prime Minister:As we continue to prepare the merging of the Likud and the Israeli Labor Party into a national unity coalition that will expel the Jewish settlers from Gaza and turn it over to the PLO, I wanted to share with you some of the wisdom I have accumulated in my years of implementing such programs.

Still dining out on the praise it garnered during the Gulf War a long decade ago, CNN (derided in its formative years as the 'Chicken Noodle Network' for its then ticky-tacky image and more recently as the 'Clinton News Network' for its unabashed infatuation with the former president) has for some time now been arguably the nation's most overrated news outlet.