Israel has invaded the Gaza Strip after Hamas refused both the Egyptian proposed ceasefire and to honor the humanitarian ceasefire Israel agreed to today. Israel had hoped to be able to stop the rocket fire without a ground invasion. In the end there was no other option which would allow them to give a...
Let the Games Begin… Will Israel allow local and international political considerations to determine the outcome of this long-running war. Note some of the latest headlines: Monday night: Israel accepts Egyptian formulation of ceasefire, including demand for removal of Hamas missile stocks, total cessation of all forms of attacks whether missiles, invasion through tunnels...
FreedomOutpost.Com writer Michael Snyder makes the valid argument that Hamas, in aiming its missiles directly at Israel’s nuclear reactor is guilty of attempting to create nuclear holocaust in Israel and the Middle East — in violation of the Geneva Convention, Article 2 (1) of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear...
ALL ISRAEL IS THE FRONT There are the days and there are the nights: During the days, rockets rain almost constantly and unpredictably over most of the country — on the homes, schools, shopping areas, roads. In and around Sderot and other southern Israel communities nearest to Gaza, they get the most strikes...
Over the past six months, with shifting front lines and sketchy satellite and human intelligence coming out of Syria, the U.S. intelligence community has lost track of who controls some of the government's chemical weapons supplies, according to one senior U.S. intelligence official and three other U.S. officials briefed on the information presented by...
UPDATED: The Other Side: Assad Set-up so that Obama would have a Reason to Bomb Syria? There is as yet independently unsubstantiated evidence for the involvement of the Jabhat al-Nusrah al-Qaeda offshoot in the chemical weapons attack in Syria, at least as much or more evidence than there is for the Syrian army involvement. I would...
Yaakov Lappin, the author of this article, based his analysis on the premise that it was Assad’s troops who launched the chemical attack. Yet we now know that at least 4 Hezbollah fighters are being treated for exposure to the chemicals. They claim they encountered them in caves being used by insurgents. Either truth...
Rocket strikes ‘Be’it El*’, an inn for Holocaust survivors in Shavei Tsion The sirens sounded and residents of the Beit El Holocaust survivors inn in Shavei Tsion scurried to the nearby bomb shelter from the dining room where they were enjoying their afternoon coffee and cake. Soon after, a rocket struck near the kitchen wall, blowing...
FRANCE – The Paris Court of Appeals, which had overturned Karsenty’s libel conviction in 2008, convicted Karsenty on Wednesday and fined him about $9,000 in his long-running case against the France 2 station. Karsenty called the verdict “outrageous,” while a lawyer for France 2 said it was a victory for journalists, according...
In an amazing and rare admission, the Palestinian Press confirms Israel’s huge investment in medical care for Palestinian (children, in this case). In addition, the article praises the up-to-date medical training provided for Palestinian doctors at Hadassah Hospital. The Hadassah organization (with 2 major hospitals in Jerusalem) founded, expands and maintains excellent medical facilities...
