Beating pandemic disease in Gaza
Addressing the impending humanitarian crises facing Gaza is critical. What was once considered a "white elephant" of Mideast international development is now offering a road map to a safer existence...
View ArticleIsrael says it prevented naval terrorist attack off Gaza coast
Israeli security forces last month stopped a potential attack by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group against an Israeli naval vessel, The Times of Israel reports.Israel’s security service, Shin...
View ArticleHamas attacks Israel — and the world condemns Israel
The world “should wait for our great move,” said a top Hamas leader, speaking to Palestinian protestors during violent clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border, “when we breach the borders and...
View ArticleSouth Africa recalls ambassador to Israel over deaths on Gaza border
South Africa announced on Monday it was recalling its ambassador to Israel after at least 52 Palestinians were killed along the Gaza border.“Given the indiscriminate and grave manner of the latest...
View ArticleWhatever you blame for latest Gaza violence is right — and wrong
Dozens of people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured in protests in the Gaza Strip along the border fence with Israel. This is the largest number of fatalities suffered in one day since the...
View ArticlePalestinian president released from hospital
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was released from a hospital in Ramallah more than a week after he was admitted for a lung infection, Reuters reported. “Thank God I am leaving the hospital in good...
View ArticleUS calls emergency UN Security Council meeting over strikes on Israel
The U.S. on Tuesday called for an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the recent mortar and rocket fire directed at Israel from Gaza. The meeting is expected to take place on...
View ArticleTo restore peace in Gaza, Israel and international community must step up
Being prime minister of Israel always has been a tough job, requiring risky decisions daily that affect the security of the Israeli people and the survival of the Jewish state. David Ben Gurion took a...
View ArticleCongress must move quickly to fix the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act
In a perversely ironic turn, a law intended to aid American victims of international terrorist attacks will strike a serious blow to counterterrorism cooperation that keeps Israelis (and Americans...
View ArticleDems have 'tough decisions' to make on Israel stance, advocate says
The Democratic Party will have to make tough decisions on its stance toward Israel amid the fallout from what many have called anti-Semitic tweets by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Israel advocate Elliott...
View ArticleIsraeli advocate says one-state solution would lead to...
Israel advocate Elliott Mendes said on Tuesday that a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would ensure the destruction of the Jewish state. "A one-state solution is the destruction...
View ArticleThe Israeli consensus of annexation can break the peace deadlock
One month before he was murdered, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke in the Knesset on how he saw the future of the land east of the “Green Line,” the Armistice Line between Israel and Jordan, created...
View ArticleNetanyahu still has time to change his mind on annexation
The historian Josephus Flavius recounts that, in one of the greatest unforced errors in history, two Hasmonean brothers who went to war over the throne of Judaea invited the great Roman general Pompey...
View ArticleBandar speaks out: the changing landscape in the Mideast
Shortly before we presented the Clinton parameters on peace to the Israelis and Palestinians in December 2000, I briefed Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to America. Once presented, I wanted...
View ArticleInternational Criminal Court probing alleged Israeli crimes in Palestinian...
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Wednesday that she will oversee an investigation into alleged crimes Israel has perpetrated in Palestinian territories. Fatou Bensouda...
View ArticleIsrael, Egypt hold high-level talks on ceasefire, rebuilding Gaza
Officials from Egypt and Israel held meetings in both countries Sunday to discuss solidifying a tentative truce between Israel and Hamas and rebuilding the Gaza Strip.The Associated Press reports that...
View ArticleFlorida takes action against Ben & Jerry's parent company amid fight...
Florida has placed Ben & Jerry’s parent corporation, Unilever, on a list of “scrutinized companies” amid the ice cream branding ending sales in certain Israeli-occupied areas.Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)...
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