Friday, 29 May 2009


Today's Top Stories

Israel to hold massive military exercise
Surrounded by enemies on every side as well as inside their country, Israel will Sunday launch a massive military exercise to help ready the nation for a full-scale war. Operation 'Turning Point 3' is set to last for five days, ...

Obama and Netanyahu square off
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United States President Barack Obama were seen to be heading nearer confrontation this week over the right of Jews to live and raise their families in the Land of Israel. Tension is growing between ...

UN prepares to probe Israel
The United Nations is set to send a team to the Middle East next week to seek proof that the Jewish state committed war crimes against Gaza's Arabs earlier this year. As ordered by the UN's openly antisemitic "Human Rights ...

As US increases pressure on Israel, North Korea threatens war
North Korea Friday fired off its sixth short-range surface-to-surface missile and warned it will not sit quietly by while the United Nations seeks to punish Pyongyang for test-firing an atom bomb earlier this week. The threat came even as the ...

Commentary - Jerusalem Watchman
What will history record?
That in mid-May, Israel appealed to the US to make a priority of stopping Iran from pursuing a nuclear bomb; that the Obama administration refused; and that one week later, America was standing on the edge of a potential nuclear conflict with North Korea.



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