The Truth about Israel

Moving for now

2005-03-05T13:14:00.000-08:00

I’ve decided to focus my efforts on supporting Americans and Israelis: Strength and Honor – so that is where my blogging input is being directed. Come visit!

Oslo Redux: Another "historic opportunity" we should miss.

2005-02-03T11:45:00.000-08:00

By Naomi RagenCaught in a bind of misconception and delusion, the government of Israel signed agreements that resulted in the death of a thousand civilians, and injuries to thousands more.In the beginning, when the bombings first started, we were told that we would proceed anyway, and not let the terrorists acts interrupt this "historic opportunity" for peace. Again and again, we were told Arafat

Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz

2005-01-26T22:01:00.000-08:00

This article is posted by participants of the January 27, 2005, BlogBurst (see list at end of article), to remember the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, sixty years ago, on January 27, 1945. On January 20th, we marked the anniversary of the 1942 Wannsee Conference. In the course of that Conference, the Nazi hierarchy formalized the plan to annihilate the Jewish

Mitchell Bard: Myth & Fact #164

2005-01-19T20:48:00.000-08:00

MYTH #164“Israel must help Mahmoud Abbas improve his standing among Palestinians to facilitate the peace process.”FACTThe death of Yasser Arafat, who remained unwilling to make peace with Israel until the end of his life, has stimulated hope that a new

Naomi Ragen: The Last Ten Minutes of My Life

2004-12-29T20:17:00.000-08:00

If you would like to know what life is like in Israel today, read this powerful and brief account.

Plaut in IsraelInsider: 20 Unfashionable Facts

2004-12-19T10:55:00.000-08:00

This is a nice summary. Even the comments from a detractor and the responses from supporters are enlightening. Thanks, Professor Plaut.

Prof. Paul Eidelberg via Women in Green: "The Poodles Among Us"

2004-12-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

In his 2002 foreword to Raphael Patai’s 1973 classic, The Arab Mind, Norvelle B. de Atkine writes: “This book forms the basis of my cultural instruction, complemented by my own experiences of some 25 years living in, studying or teaching about the Middle East.”De Atkine notes that “officers returning from the Arab world describe the cultural barriers they encounter as by far the most difficult

A terror victim speaks

2004-12-14T19:14:00.000-08:00

Please go to this site and read the full text of this speech given recently by Arnold Roth, the father of 15-year-old Sbarro victim Malki Roth. This man's articulate love, compassion, and good sense are, I am proud to say, thoroughly representative of the very best in Judaism.Dear reader, if you have bought into the "moral equivalence" lie (Israel = "Palestine") of the media, please see if you

Honig in JPost: Lost Chicken-Sense

2004-12-14T17:21:00.000-08:00

by Sarah HonigAmong the junk mail that clogs my postbox daily, I found a Gush Shalom leaflet calling on me to fulfill my "national duty and the duty of every peace-loving person" to help remove all settlements. How do I pitch in? By boycotting anything that's settlement-made. To facilitate my task, I was supplied with a list of brands to be shunned. In case of unmarked agricultural produce, I

Amazing letter from Pollard to chief IDF rabbi

2004-12-12T15:03:00.000-08:00

To: Brigadier General Rabbi Israel Weiss, Chief Rabbi of the IDFFrom: Jonathan Pollard, 09185-016; FCI Butner, Butner NC, USADear Rabbi Weiss,As you know, our tradition teaches that a Jew does not sin unless he is afflicted by temporary insanity, a "ruach shtut". How else are we to understand why a G-d -fearing Jew like yourself, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, would declare his support for orders to

Remember: WE are the good guys!

2004-12-05T08:33:00.000-08:00

In Column One: Leaving the Hall of Mirrors, Jerusalem Post columnist Carolyn Glick writes one of her most insightful and level-headed analyses ever. Thanks, Carolyn! (and thanks, Naomi, for pointing this out.)You have to register with Jpost to read it, but it’s free.

Amir Taheri in Jerusalem Post: What if it's not Israel they loathe?

2004-12-02T08:47:00.000-08:00

This article makes the point that Muslims don't care about Palestinians as "brother Muslims"; they're just another excuse for hating the US and the West in general. The arguments are clearly made and supported--and widely ignored by the press and politicians.

israelinsider: Culture: Rafael "Raful" Eitan drowns in Mediterranean

2004-11-25T23:37:00.000-08:00

This article, while far from the depth of eulogy the man deserves, really says it all. Farewell, Raful. The memory of your life will continue to serve as an example.

Different Worlds, Different Values

2004-10-17T16:46:00.000-07:00

Remarks of Brigitte Gabriel to be delivered at the Duke University Counter-Terrorism Speak-out October 14, 2004 (via Naomi Ragen) I'm proud and honored to stand here today as a Lebanese speaking for Israel--the only democracy in the Middle East. As someone who was raised in an Arabic country I want to give you a glimpse into the heart of the Arabic world. I was raised in Lebanon, where I was

MYTH #153: “Israel was responsible for the 1973 war.”

2004-09-30T09:57:00.000-07:00

FACT On October 6, 1973 — Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar — Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel's borders (Chaim Herzog, The Arab-Israeli Wars, NY: Random House, 1984, p. 230.).1 On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian

MYTH #152: “The Jews have no claim to the land they call Israel.”

2004-09-15T13:20:00.000-07:00

FACT: A common misperception is that all the Jews were forced into the Diaspora by the Romans after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E. and then, 1,800 years later, suddenly returned to Palestine demanding their country back. In reality, the Jewish people have maintained ties to their historic homeland for more than 3,700 years. The Jewish people base their

Ali Sina: Eradicate Islam

2004-09-11T15:28:00.000-07:00

In this amazing blog piece, former Muslim Ali Sina argues for the adandonment of Islam by its followers; that it is an illogical occult cult that cannot be fixed. I'm with him.

Naomi Ragen: Who is the Enemy?

2004-09-06T19:51:00.000-07:00

I have not been able to recover from the terrorist attack in Beslan. Terrorism is not the enemy. Terrorism is a tactic of the enemy. Who, then, is the enemy that fights all those who identify with the civilized world -- the world in which children and their mothers are cherished and protected, even in war? The world in which school buildings, and ambulances, and hospitals, and holy places are

John Loftus on the origins of Al Qaeda

2004-09-03T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is a "must read"; long, but eye-opening. John Loftus Speech Yom Ha Shoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day2004 Jewish Community News, August 2004 It always seems a little strange to have an Irish-Catholic talking about Yom Ha Shoah. I had an unusual education in the Holocaust. When I was working for the Attorney General, I was assigned to do the classified research about the Holocaust, so I

An Arab Living in Israel

2004-08-15T15:16:00.000-07:00

Circulated by Naomi Ragen I am A Lucky Arab by Anonymous I am a lucky Arab. My grandfather, Mohammed, travelled on foot from his home in Iraq in the early part of the last century looking for work. Jews had come to British-controlled Palestine in the thousands, joining the Jews that had always been here, buying up land from absentee Turkish Muslim owners, and they needed many workers to help

Stay Quiet and You'll be OK

2004-07-04T16:13:00.000-07:00

By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | June 23, 2004 Here's a new slogan for the zeitgeist: stay quiet and you'll be OK. This was the message, according to the tapes released last week, that Muhammad Atta gave to the passengers on the ill-fated airplane that he and his fellow terrorists had commandeered. Stay quiet and you'll be OK. Don't mention that a Saudi imam who spoke at the opening

Liat Ben David mourns Naomi Shemer (from the Jewish Agency site)

2004-07-02T15:41:00.000-07:00

Last night, when I heard that Naomi Shemer had died, I felt as if music itself had died. What hasn't she given us? Her songs are the melodies of everything we know and hold dear: The joy of our childhood songs - "We went on a hike/ and found an anemone/ on the grass-filled hill/ in the west", a childhood filled with simple, naive symbols: "The mail has arrived today/ in a red car/ and it brought

Ahmed Shuqeiry invented "Palestine"

2004-06-03T09:14:00.000-07:00

Ruth Matar, Women in Green, writes: The following was sent to me by Gilbert Simons from his as yet unpublished book on this subject. "How did this artificial Arab country of Palestine come into being? Ahmed Shuqairy, a lawyer, created it out of thin air, at the bequest of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. From his pen came the Palestine National Covenant, a historical revisionist document

This is the Enemy

2004-05-30T23:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/print.php3?what=article&id=3732. by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz May 30, 2004 [WARNING: The following contains graphic descriptions of violence.] Nick Berg, an American from Philadelphia, was kidnapped and tortuously beheaded by Arabs in Iraq sometime in May. The murderers filmed the deed and proudly displayed the victim's severed head. After killing six Israeli

THE BIG LIE WHICH PLANTED THE SEEDS OF GLOBAL JIHAD

2004-05-27T23:07:00.000-07:00

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Dear Friends, This is probably the most important letter that I have ever written to you. I implore you to forward this letter or a letter in your own words, accompanied by the original PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CHARTER OF 1964, to President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, your Senators and Congressmen, your

And the world still remains silent

2004-05-09T13:30:00.000-07:00

Rachel Raskin-Zrihen There are only a couple of possible explanations for why the world is not out even now, protesting the intentional murder of a pregnant woman and her four young daughters by Palestinian gunmen. I think it's clear that had the shooters been Israeli soldiers and the victims a Palestinian family, millions of righteously indignant protesters would have hit the streets and

Remembering

2004-04-26T10:57:00.000-07:00

From Naomi Ragen: Friends, One of ther reasons I started this mailing list was to try to share that which we in Israel are experiencing. All day long today, Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and (for the first time) victims of terror, I tried to think how I could explain to someone outside the country what we here go through. How can I make someone who doesn't live here understand

Poor "Palestinians"

2004-04-24T13:13:00.000-07:00

From http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200404230833.asp The Palestinians will, in fact, get their de facto state, though one that may be now cut off entirely from Israeli commerce and cultural intercourse. This is an apparently terrifying thought: Palestinian men can no longer blow up Jews on Monday, seek dialysis from them on Tuesday, get an Israeli paycheck on Wednesday, demonstrate

Naomi's back

2004-03-24T13:09:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends, I'm back! I had a wonderful time (sunsets, rainbows, beaches, orchids. Peace.) But I have to say my eyes misted when my plane finally touched down on my little country. And of all the wonderful sights I saw, and all the joy I experienced, there is was nothing like the coastline of Tel Aviv as it neared. The weather is warm and balmy, with no cloud in sight. My short stay in

Sarah Honig in JPost: Sleep no more

2004-03-16T16:31:00.000-08:00

Jerusalem Post, March 11, 2004 It came to me while trying to avoid decking myself out in a full-blown Purim costume for a party we were invited to. Why not go as a replica of myself, my own impostor? So I drew and cut out a giant lapel-label in the shape of a seedpod and imprinted a bold "snatched body" inscription across it. My humble homage to the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a

Fence Cartoon

2004-02-29T02:54:00.000-08:00

Barrier For Peace From Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons.

Daniel Gordis: Adi Avitan, Benny Avraham and Omar Souad came home today

2004-01-30T00:33:00.000-08:00

*** To join Daniel's list, send a BLANK email to: gordis-subscribe@topica.com. Or see www.danielgordis.org for more information. *** Just published ..... The last five years of these Dispatches (a revised version of IF A PLACE CAN MAKE YOU CRY), plus other brief essays on life in Israel, are now available as "Home to Stay: One American Family's Chronicle of Miracles and Struggles in

IsraelPizza.com: pizza and soda for Israeli soldiers!

2004-01-15T13:11:00.000-08:00

IsraelPizza.com: Click here to tangibly express your appreciation. Pizza and a Chat Arutz 7 Being a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces has its perks – defending the Jewish nation, fulfilling a 2,000 year old dream to control our own destiny and for soldiers serving in Hevron... free pizza. The residents of Kiryat Arba and Hevron have established an organization called “Israel Pizza” to

Why Palestinian statehood is a mistake

2004-01-09T09:53:00.000-08:00

by Joseph Farah I now think I understand Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's thinking when it comes to his acceptance of the U.S. "roadmap" plan for the creation of a Palestinian state as early as this year. For a long time I wondered if there was any coherent thought behind Israel's capitulation to Washington and the international community. I knew there was no moral justification for the

Scapegoating the "settlers"

2003-12-31T10:03:00.000-08:00

By Shalom Freedman Originally published by Israel National News There were no settlers in Judea and Samaria and Gaza in 1967. There were none in 1956. Those Jews who lived there in 1947 and 1948, and were murdered or driven out by the Arabs, were not called "settlers," but rather Jews of Palestine living in Eretz Yisrael. Yet, even without the settlers, the Arabs tried to destroy the Jewish

A plan to rid the US of Arab terrorism

2003-12-26T23:09:00.000-08:00

My friend Professor Jon Ruthven suggests the US do what it wants Israel to do: In light of the horrible terrorism that struck the US on 11th Sept, we would like to recommend that the US follow the method of dealing with terrorism that the State Dept. has been recommending to the State of Israel: 1. Give the entire US east of the Mississippi to Osama Bin Ladin. 2. Invite him to negotiate a

Another Tack: The prostitute's price (JPost)

2003-12-19T10:38:00.000-08:00

by Sarah Honig No need to worry about Ehud Olmert's latest pronouncements. He has evinced such dubious originality in the past, most glaringly when he sabotaged the Likud's 1999 campaign and starred in Ehud Barak's electioneering broadcasts, vouching that Barak won't divide Jerusalem. Shortly thereafter, Barak was about to sign everything away save for the subterranean strata of the Temple Mount

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF or The Maccabean Battles - Reloaded

2003-12-18T09:27:00.000-08:00

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Thursday, December 18, 2003 Dear Friends, Israel's Prime Minister Sharon, under heavy American pressure, has made the decision to destroy Migron, a community in the Judean Hills just minutes from Jerusalem. Migron is home to 43 young Torah-observant Jewish families with over 60 young children. They are professionals, teachers, students, and

Nadia Matar: About Pigs and Transfer of Jews

2003-12-14T17:40:00.000-08:00

(The following is a translation of Nadia Matar's Hebrew show on Arutz 7 Internet) We are now in a new period. Until a few days ago, we did not know where the Israeli Government was leading us, and we could still think that Ariel Sharon "is only talking, but doesn't mean it"; now things are crystal-clear: the Sharon Government intends to betray, hand over, uproot, destroy, and transfer. The

Naomi Ragen: The Awakening

2003-12-11T11:17:00.000-08:00

Naomi Ragen writes: Now, if only the Palestinians would wake up and throw off the leadership that has stolen their money and sent their children to commit murder/suicide. If only they would march in the thousands against terrorism and for peace and democracy... Peter Jennings, are you reading this? CNN? Naomi Ragen Iraqis for the "Occupation" By Dr. Walid Phares FrontPageMagazine.com |

Backspin: Border Fence

2003-12-10T09:37:00.000-08:00

The border security fence is comprised of many sections totaling scores of miles. Some sections are concrete, others sheet metal. The barrier is three layers deep in parts, fifteen feet high and surrounded by razor wire. The area around it is lit by spotlights, monitored by cameras, motion detectors and magnetic sensors, and patrolled by armed guards with attack dogs. But enough about the USA

Geneva Sellout

2003-11-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

By Charles Krauthammer On Monday, a peace agreement will be signed by Israelis and Palestinians. This "Geneva accord" has gotten much attention. And the signing itself will be greeted with much hoopla. Journalists are being flown in from around the world by the Swiss government. Jimmy Carter will be heading a list of foreign dignitaries. The U.S. Embassy in Bern will be sending an observer.

To Be A Jew In A Hostile World

2003-11-23T14:36:00.000-08:00

Nowadays it is fashionable to be anti-Semitic. What used to be whispered, and said in low voices, has now been allowed to be openly and publicly stated. The Arab and Muslim world have had tremendous success with their incessant propaganda in this regard. In view of the tremendous positive contributions Jews and Judaism have made to mankind and to Western Civilization throughout the ages, this

Life in Israel now

2003-10-21T06:25:00.000-07:00

Naomi Ragen writes: Friends, The Washington Post published a piece by Richard Cohen in which the writer speaks to an American oleh who says he left Israel because his business went under, and he's afraid for his family, etc. etc. In short, Israel is losing the war. Well, that's one point of view. But I live among many, many Israelis with American passports. Not one person I know has picked

Steyn in JPost: Palestinian death cult

2003-10-07T19:54:00.000-07:00

The Perceptive Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head again:> "Palestinian" society is perverted and horribly sick. Read this article.

JPost: The Military Solution Works

2003-10-06T21:16:00.000-07:00

Evelyn Gordon's article in the Jerusalem Post shows that military responses to terrorism reduce terrorism. I don't find this surprising; do you?

Special Report from Gary Bauer: Carnage Again

2003-10-06T12:47:00.000-07:00

To: Friends and Supporters of the Campaign for Working Families From: Gary L. Bauer, Chairman Date: Monday, October 6, 2003 It was a sunny Saturday afternoon in the Israeli port city of Haifa on the Jewish Sabbath before Yom Kippur when evil struck again. In a split second, a crazed female jihadist exploded her deadly cargo and 20 people died instantly, while dozens more were gravely wounded.

JPost: Day of reconciliations

2003-10-04T15:03:00.000-07:00

In this beautiful article, Stewart Weiss discusses the meaning of Yom Hakippurim.

Ruth Matar: IS ISRAEL AMERICA'S BANANA REPUBLIC?

2003-10-02T12:07:00.000-07:00

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Thursday, October 2, 2003 Dear Friends, On September 26, on the eve of Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, an Arab terrorist broke into a home in Negohot, A Jewish Community near Hebron, and shot dead baby girl Shaked Avraham in her rocker, and also murdered a 27 year old man, Eyal Yerberbaum. Arab terrorists have been particularly fond of

StillThreatening Israel

2003-10-01T16:32:00.000-07:00

Gary Bauer: With our Iraq policy under attack and our security at Guantanamo Bay compromised, you would think the State Department would have plenty on its plate dealing with America's enemies. But once again this morning a top State Department official, William Burns, is threatening our friend and ally Israel with financial penalties if it insists on completing a security fence that protects

The late Edward Said - a fake!

2003-09-29T06:47:00.000-07:00

Who hadn't heard of the late Professor Edward Said of Columbia University? The great, angry prophet of Palestinian injustice, he railed against the "occupier," mourning his "beautiful" house in Jerusalem from which his family was supposedly thrown out in '48, and his poor father impoverished. All because of the brutal Israeli Jews.... Oh, the terrible injustice! And how all his intellectual and

Woolsey: We are all Jews

2003-09-29T06:44:00.000-07:00

In this JPost piece, former CIA director Woolsey shares a profound truth: The secret of Israel's 'graduation,' thousands of years ago, from a collection of tribes to a nation - the law.

Palestinian murders two, including 7-month-old girl

2003-09-27T01:47:00.000-07:00

Read this. Then explain to me why.

Women in Green: Criminals of Oslo

2003-09-26T07:52:00.000-07:00

Women in Green's Nadia Matar: Yes, Indeed - Peres and His Friends are the Criminals of Oslo How would the English have reacted, if Chamberlain, in the midst of England’s war with Germany, had held a celebration of his 1938 Munich Accords with Hitler? If Chamberlain then had said that the Munich agreements were not a mistake. If Chamberlain had claimed “Hitler had been democratically elected by

TEN YEARS OF OSLO

2003-09-23T19:14:00.000-07:00

LETTER FROM RUTH AND NADIA MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Dear Friends, Naomi Ragen, the well-known author, sent out the following email on September 19, two days before Peres' birthday celebration. She listed her subject as: Let's wish Mr. Peres the birthday he deserves. "Well, I'm back. The terrible events that took place while I was away touched me in far off places, because wherever our

Arafat of the KGB

2003-09-22T22:41:00.000-07:00

IsraPundit quotes a Wall Street

Happy Independence Day!

2003-05-07T21:49:00.000-07:00

Speaker of the Knesset at Mt. Herzl Speech for the Eve of Independence Day 5763/2003 Happy Independence Day, my brothers and sisters of Israel: Our flag has just been raised to full mast, and once again it is flying proudly over our Holy City, on the mount of memorial and heroism, as though it were natural and self-evident; as though it were always so. But the "Yizkor" [memorial] prayer, and

Yom HaZikaron - Remembrance Day

2003-05-05T21:53:00.000-07:00

Soldiers and security personnel who have fallen since the War of Independence: 19,914 Total number fallen (including the pre-State period: 21,540 (This number includes disabled IDF veterans who later died from their wounds and non-IDF personnel who fell in the line of duty). Number of soldiers killed since Remembrance Day last year 254 ------------------------------------------------- The

Lies, More Lies, and CNN's Lies

2003-04-21T08:26:00.000-07:00

Exclusive commentary to Naomi Ragen's mail list by Marc J. Rauch Apr 17, 2003 As I opined in a recent essay, the first lesson that has hopefully been learned from the Iraq War is that the treacherous and cowardly acts perpetrated by Saddam Hussein and his goons are the same nefarious tactics that Israel has had to contend with for the past hundred years in order to defend themselves and

PALESTINE FOR SALE FOR 5,000 STERLING!

2003-03-15T15:43:00.000-08:00

The Coming Storm By Solly Ganor One doesn’t have to be a great strategist to see the storm approaching our shores, and I am not referring to the weather. While President Bush in his speech today left enough space for us to breath in, Tony Blair held a press conference that was only dedicated to the Palestinian Israeli conflict. “Wait and see, the Palestinian State is under way, and no one is

PURIM IN DACHAU

2003-03-15T15:33:00.000-08:00

By Solly Ganor They arrived from Auschwitz in several groups. Each group counted about twenty people. Of course, they didn’t look like people. They looked more like walking skeletons. They had triangular faces with pointed chins, and sunken cheeks. Even the lips had shrunken to thin blue lines. The only prominent feature were their eyes; they were unusually large and with a strange sheen, almost

Death of my teacher

2003-03-10T07:55:00.000-08:00

By Elisheva Harrow "Elisheva, come see what I did...it took me hours, but I finally organized all the hundreds of pictures we've taken over the last couple of years and put together an album...there's some pictures of your graduation, and a great one of you hugging Ha'Mora (the teacher) Dina...” Regular, every day conversation. Life goes on. Small sentences like a roulette wheel... Fast

The history of the Gulf wars

2003-02-27T06:48:00.000-08:00

This outstanding site is beautifully designed and has excellent and authoritative articles on the history of Israel, "Palestinian" demands, and the Gulf wars.

Joseph Farah: An Unconventional Arab Viewpoint

2003-02-25T01:13:00.000-08:00

This came from Women in Green, who add: The following is adapted from remarks made by Joseph Farah at a Christian Coalition symposium on Islam, Feb. 15 in Washington, D.C This is an abbreviation of that speech. I've been really bugged, especially since Sept. 11, 2001, by all the self-proclaimed Arab-American and Muslim-American spokesmen I see on the talking-head shows. What bugs me is the way

What is the history of other countries in the Middle East?

2003-02-23T21:47:00.000-08:00

Jewish Internet Association shares little-known facts.

Thomas Sowell: Undeclared Wars

2003-02-20T17:56:00.000-08:00

This excellent piece by Sowell reminds me of a quote I recently heard, attributed to Ross Perot: "Going to war without France is like going deer-hunting without an accordian."

If you have any questions about the Jewish settlements in Yesha, you should read this

2003-02-17T11:23:00.000-08:00

Apartheid?

A Japanese View of the Palestinians

2003-02-14T06:30:00.000-08:00

by Yashiko Sagamori (from Women in Green) If you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of Palestine: When was it founded and by whom? What were its borders? What was its capital? What were its major cities? What constituted the basis of its economy? What was its form

Thousands of Arabs brought into US with minimal scrutiny

2003-02-12T10:29:00.000-08:00

Distressing report by Michelle Malkin

MEDIA BLUNDER OF THE WEEK: Associated Press published the headline (Feb. 6): "Arab Man Killed in Stabbing in Northern Israel."

2003-02-11T07:09:00.000-08:00

You have to read the article to find out it was the Arab who did the stabbing, and was only killed in order to save the life of the Israeli policeman that he was stabbing! Read it here: http://honestreporting.com/a/r/347.asp Comments to: feedback@ap.org

Israel's War Against Palestinian Terror

2003-02-08T14:10:00.000-08:00

Israel's War Against Palestinian Terror - http://www.oslo-war.com is well-designed, with good information.

"ILAN RAMON - IN MEMORIAM"

2003-02-02T20:49:00.000-08:00

HonestReporting Communique 02 February 2003 * * * HonestReporting joins the people of Israel in mourning the tragic loss of Col. Ilan Ramon and his Columbia Shuttle crewmates. We wish to share the following inspirational tribute, "Shattered Dreams," by Dina Coopersmith of http://aish.com/. HonestReporting.com ====== ILAN RAMON: SHATTERED DREAMS ====== The mind reels in disbelief as reports

MY TRUE HERO

2003-01-19T01:19:00.000-08:00

By Solly Ganor solganor@netvision.net.il I don’t think there was a person in Israel who didn't watch the Shuttle Columbia blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, yesterday. We watched with trepidation and anxiety, but above all pride as the graceful white shuttle lifted off into the blue Florida sky, trailing a white plume behind it. For us Israelis, it was a special flight,

THIS PURIM -- SHOW YOU CARE

2003-01-16T22:43:00.000-08:00

Just for a moment, picture a young Israel soldier in an isolated outpost far from family and home. It's Purim, and he's serving under extremely trying conditions. Then, out of the blue, he's handed a traditional Purim basket -- mishloach manot-- filled with goodies. Follow this link to send a Purim basket to an IDF soldier.

A story of cold-blooded murder

2003-01-11T22:04:00.000-08:00

By Joseph Farah © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Last week, Massoud Mahlouf Elon, a 72-year-old Israeli from the town of Menahemya, did something he had done for years. He drove into the Jordan Valley, a desolate Arab area where he often brought clothes to donate to poor Bedouin tribes people. "I begged him not to travel there," said his son Ya'acov. But Elon enjoyed friendly relations with the

KADDISH FOR ZELIG

2003-01-05T10:24:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends, When I sent out Holocaust survivor and author Solly Ganor's "Conversation on the Beach," had no idea who the author was--man, woman, background, age--nothing. Only now, having read Mr. Ganor's "Kaddish for Zelig," do I understand the full, incredible impact of that conversation between Mr. Ganor and the arrogant Muslim student on an Israeli beach. Read the following article, and

THE ROAD TO PERDITION - Is Israel being sold out?

2003-01-01T23:38:00.000-08:00

Ruth Matar, Women in Green Radio Program Arutz Sheva, January 1, 2003 In the Hagadda, the story which Jews read on Passover, it is written: "For not one only has risen up against us, but in every generation some have risen to annihilate us, but the Most Holy, blessed be He, has delivered us out of their hands." In the last century, the Nazis thought they were going to succeed in what they

Wedding in Jerusalem

2003-01-01T10:53:00.000-08:00

By Naomi Ragen Last night I went to the wedding of my dear friends’ Nancy and Benny's daughter. I've known the bride and her family for many years. And Nancy and I discovered we were both born in the same hospital in Brooklyn a few days apart. The bride and her twin brother were tiny babies when I first met them. And now that baby girl, Shira – meaning song- was getting married. Her future

Arafat Takes On bin Laden

2002-12-28T14:54:00.000-08:00

By Joseph Farah Well, if we're to believe what we heard last week, Yasser Arafat is angry at Osama bin Laden. Arafat says he doesn't want the al-Qaida terrorist hiding behind "the Palestinian cause." He denounced the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States, and explained how his struggle against Israel is different than the one being waged by bin Laden against the West. It was all very

Why doesn't Israel have a constitution?

2002-12-27T10:55:00.000-08:00

Read this illuminating article by JIA's Chuck Chriss. And if your heart tells you to, please contribute to JIA's support on that site, too.

THE BUSH PLAN:

2002-12-26T07:36:00.000-08:00

From Naomi Ragen: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must 1. "dismantle the terrorist infrastructure," 2. "end incitement," 3. "elect new leaders not compromised by terror," and 4.

Will Warren on 9/11: Malignity

2002-12-25T11:21:00.000-08:00

From Unremitting Verse On that day we awoke to malignity, The ferocious intent to do us harm, That day of rage and sorrow, of smoke and alarm, Of souls lost in the fires of iniquity. We felt the familiar world distort, As when one sees his pathology report: Examination reveals a profusion of poorly differentiated cells that compose an abnormal mass, which swells against nearby structures.

WND: PALESTINE, AGAIN

2002-12-25T10:55:00.000-08:00

By Joseph Farah Despite two years of intense terrorism against Israeli civilians by the Palestinian Authority, Jerusalem is still willing to reward the violence and participate in the creation of yet another Arab police state in the Mideast - probably under the direction of the bloodthirsty, would-be tyrant and friend of Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat. Will they ever learn? Worse yet, this

News from Hebron

2002-12-24T22:32:00.000-08:00

1. Attempted terror outside Kiryat Arba This morning at about 11:30, terrorists opened fire on employees of the Kiryat Arba municipality, working at "Hill 29," opposite the Givat HaHarsina gas station. The shots were fired from an Arab house in the vicinity. No one was injured. A short time later, following arrival of Israeli security forces, two bombs were detected near the area where the men

Naomi Ragen: An illuminating conversation

2002-12-24T00:51:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends, Forget the blah-blah of news commentaries. This true exchange between an Israeli man (who writes and speaks about the Holocaust) and an Israeli-Arab student at Hebrew University will make you understand what is happening in the world, and in Israel. Every blessing, Naomi Ragen Conversation on the Beach By Solly Ganor Herzliya, Israel Friday, December 6, 2002 About half a

DOES ARAB VIOLENCE PAY OFF?

2002-12-23T08:05:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends, I send you an important piece by the well known columnist Carl Alpert which explains why misguided peace movements in Israel are not just a harmless expression of delusional, unfounded optimism; to the Arabs, they are a sign of weakness and an encouragement to keep those bombs coming. Those Jews abroad who fund Peace Now, Rabbis for Human Rights, Yesh G'vul, Meretz, the Labor Party

Jane, Yasir, Shoshana, and Mitzna

2002-12-22T12:28:00.000-08:00

By Naomi Ragen I was invited to attend a V-Day tribute to the doctors and nurses of Hadassah Hospital. I had no idea what V-Day meant, and found out it had to do with the feminism of the Vagina Monologues, an off-Broadway play written by Eve Ensler. The delegates, including the playwright, and Jane Fonda, had been touring the area, with a stop in Jordan to speak to women there about violence

Oriana: I stand with Israel; I stand with the Jews

2002-12-02T13:59:00.000-08:00

God bless her and FrontPage magazine.com!

Daniel Gordis: Dispatches from an Anxious State

2002-11-29T02:42:00.000-08:00

In New York last week, I had occasion to be interviewed on NPR. It still amazes me how many people listen to talk radio, and of those, how many find the time to search the web in order to write email comments on what they've heard. I was pretty flooded with responses to the interview (www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/11182002), and rather struck by one particular theme that appeared in many

Naomi Ragen: Giving thanks

2002-11-28T16:22:00.000-08:00

It’s awfully late, past midnight, and I should be going to sleep instead of sitting here writing this. But somehow I can’t allow this day to end without talking about it to someone. I am trying to find my feet. To know where it is I am now that the world as we know it doesn’t seem to exist anymore. The daily murder of Jewish children by armed, adult men wasn’t supposed to happen anymore. Not

WIG: Is Sharon creating a monster?

2002-11-28T15:57:00.000-08:00

Ruth Matar, Women in Green Radio Program Arutz Sheva, November 27, 2002 Last night I returned to Israel after a ten-day stay in the United States. I had gone to the States to attend America-Israel fairs in Chicago, Illinois and Houston, Texas. These fairs are organized all over the United States by friends of Israel to give a boost to the Israeli economy, since very few tourists come here because

Killings of Israelis over past two days

2002-11-28T11:05:00.000-08:00

Headlines from DEBKAfile: Five Israelis killed, 40 injured - 7 seriously, one critically - in Palestinian shooting-grenade rampage at Beit Shean central bus station, post office and crowded Likud voting booth, Thursday afternoon. Soldiers shoot two dead. Suspected booby-trapped car found nearby. Among wounded are three sons of veteran Israeli politician David Levy Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, arm

Powell on the moon

2002-11-27T15:14:00.000-08:00

DEBKAfile headline: "Powell Wednesday: Palestinian Intifada was clearly a mistake. It hasn’t brought the Palestinian people closer to a state or to peace." Why does he think a state or peace were the goal? Why doesn't he know that the goals were simply to kill more Jews?

Media blackout on Women-in-Green demonstration outside PM's office

2002-11-25T05:56:00.000-08:00

The Government and the Media Refuse to Acknowledge the Will of the Majority! We purportedly live in a democracy where there is a free press and where our government is responsive to the will of the People. Not so! You would think that a demonstration held outside of the Prime Minister's Office yesterday morning in which citizens raised their voices in protest against the creation of a

Words spoken by widows Rivka Buanish and Rivka Duchan at memorial rally last night in Hevron

2002-11-24T22:06:00.000-08:00

Saturday night thousands attended a memorial rally near the site of last week's murderous terror attack. The rally was held in the new "Giborie Hebron" - "Heroes of Hebron" neighborhood, which will connect Hebron to Kiryat Arba. Among those speaking were Rabbis Moshe Levinger, Dov Lior, Moshe Bleicher and Eliezer Waldman, as well as Kiryat Arba Mayor Tzvi Katzover and MK Yuri Stern. **********

THE UNIQUE COWARDICE OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISM

2002-11-24T13:39:00.000-08:00

As of November 20, 2002, there had been a total of 15,298 Palestinian terror attacks against Israel since the start of the "intifada" in September 2000. The number increased by one a day later, on November 21, when a Palestinian bomber blew up a bus filled with elderly women and young children in Jerusalem. Not surprisingly, the world has likely taken more angry notice of Israel's defensive

Ha'aretz: Secret paper shows PA running explosives plant

2002-11-24T09:33:00.000-08:00

Ze'ev Schiff writes about the discovery of paperwork confirming the role of the PA in ALL the bombings. My guess is this will not affact liberals in Israel or elsewhere.

Who owns the land? Follow-up

2002-11-21T22:57:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to the list member who supplied the following additional information about who owns the land of Israel. The truth will be heard, if we shout it long enough and loud enough. It will be heard above the bombs, the sceams of the fanatics in the streets of Bagdad and Islamabad, and the yada yada of the brain-dead news media. It will. Naomi Ragen After 1948, the land of Arabs who left

Gary Bauer: No Peace In Jerusalem

2002-11-21T11:55:00.000-08:00

Millions of American families engaged in the morning ritual of getting our children off to school today. We rushed looking for lost textbooks, forgotten lunch bags, and fought to overcome inevitable morning traffic jams. But none of us had to contend with the horror that once again confronted the parents of Jerusalem as their children were slaughtered by another Palestinian homicide bomber.

11 dead, 47 injured from bombing of Jerusalem bus

2002-11-21T09:08:00.000-08:00

DEBKAfile Sources: Haddasah hospital reports Israeli victims of Jerusalem bus bombing Thursday suffered unusually excessive burns in view of brief bus fire. Palestinians terrorist suspected of using new type of explosive or lacing it with new chemical. Palestinian suicide bombing in early Thursday rush hour left 11 Israelis dead, injured 47 - 8 seriously - on packed Jerusalem Bus No. 20 on