Sunday 4 January 2009


Today's Top Stories

Commentary - Jerusalem Watchman
Israel’s painful dilemma: To win against Hamas is to lose
It is absolutely essential that we keep our focus on the core issue: Israel’s homeland and the efforts to wrest it from the Jews. Satan is not deflected. While sowing terror, murder and mayhem, his aim has for decades been steadily on one target – one goal: the Land of Israel with Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.

Israel rolls on Gaza
Ending days of speculation, Israeli ground forces, including tanks and infantry, began moving into Gaza Saturday night, eight days after Israel launched its assault on the Hamas-infested Strip. Shortly before the movement began, IDF artillery began shelling the length of ...

Tens of thousands of IDF reservists called up
The Israel Defense Forces has called up "tens of thousands" of reserve soldiers, according to reports Saturday night. The news came at almost precisely the same time Israeli soldiers began entering the Gaza Strip at the start of a ground ...

Israel's Arab citizens openly declare rejection of Jewish state
In what organizers described as one of the largest demonstrations ever held by Arab Israelis, tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the northern Israeli town of Sakhnin on Saturday to declare fealty with Gaza's Arabs and ...

Florida demonstrator: Jews - you need a big oven'
The ugly face of Israel and Jew hatred was revealed on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, Florida last week as hundreds gathered to demonstrate against Israel's self-defensive war against Gaza's Hamas terror group. Up to 300 men and women, white ...



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