For up-to-the-minute information, go to IDF BLOG SITE Israel is reporting current events in the war on terror (Operation Pillar of Defense) both through blogs, twitter and other social media sites with text, video and photo evidence. TWITTER entries by the IDF SPOKESMAN can be read on this site’s Israelinsight Twitter window. Israel mourns...
International Headlines Scream: Israelis killed in Bulgaria bus terror attack, minister says CNN The Bulgarian press reported 7 killed 37 wounded in the bombing Wednesday at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The target of the attack was a bus carrying Israeli tourists from the airport to their hotels....
Perhaps you are aware that the 9th day of the Hebrew month of AV is a Jewish day of mourning, 2nd only to Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) for all of the Jewish people. On this day, Jews around the world are united in fasting, prayer, and ponder today’s significance of the greatest tragedies of Jewish...
Like most Israelis, I was horrified by the cold-blooded attack on the two young soldiers in Haifa. Unfortunately, it’s not infrequent that Arabs attack young soldiers, but it it was horrifying that there was a gang who set out to torture and lynch them. That the gang of Arab thugs attacked them just because they...
Iran Attacks Israel Abroad First, on Monday a magnetic explosive device was planted on the car carrying the wife of an Israeli diplomat in Delhi. She was injured and is still hospitalized in Dehli. Shortly afterward, there was an attempt injure a local Embassy employee on his way to work in Tsibili, Georgia. So...
Under cover of all the smoke billowing from the much-heralded but not exactly ‘long-range’ missiles in the Strait of Hormuz, what’s going on? The newspapers are filled with pronouncements by high-up and sometimes rival Iranian officials. Their message, a savage, world-shaking threat: No more sanctions, no interference in Iran, Syria or their other international...
Man Proposes; God Disposes – Anyone who thinks they are totally prepared for what the morning brings is delusional. Even conclusions we draw based on our interpretations of current events and world alliances can become totally irrelevant in an instant. Unlike ‘revolutions, rebellions, or so-called Springs’, regime change can come upon us in a...
Greed for Power and/or Money has created an entire world armed to the teeth with weapons of mass destruction and moreover even deadlier technology! A recent and potentially critical example of the proliferation of not only the usual WMD’s (nuclear weapon technology and components, chemical and biological weapons) but of today’s cutting edge cyber...
So will Israel strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, or won’t she? Eight years is a long time to play ‘she loves me, she loves me not ‘ and the daisy’s petals have long since fallen, crumbled and gone. However, the leaders of the free world are still passing around the daisy and pretending to see...
UPDATE 02:00 31 October 2011: One man, Ami Moshe age 59, of Ashdod, died from shrapnel wounds inflicted by Grad which hit his car. 15 others remain hospitalized with moderate to serious wounds. Israeli PM Netanyahu said there is NO ceasefire in effect as of today, Sunday. Interestingly, the pattern is: Terrorists fire...
