Netanyahu: Killing of PRC heads ‘only beginning’ of Israel retaliation Continuous Palestinian missile blitz after Israel bombs 12 terrorist targets in Gaza DEBKAfile Special Report August 19, 2011, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00) Terrorists attack southern Israel After the Israeli Air Force struck 12 Hamas and other terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Thursday, Aug. 18, a hail of missiles hit the towns of Ashdod, Beersheba, Ashkelon and the smaller Sdot Negev, Shar Hanegev and Eshkol villages in a continuous blitz Friday, Aug. 19. Ten worshippers were injured – two seriously – when one of the six Grads aimed at Ashdod hit a synagogue. Police detonated a second in a controlled explosion. The town’s population is advised to stay in sheltered spaces. ... More Details on Eilat Terror Attack By Barry Rubin, PAJAMAS MEDIA A gunfight is going on in the early afternoon of Friday between terrorists, probably from the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committees, an al-Qaida affiliate, and the Egyptian army. The battle is taking place on the Egyptian side of the border near where terrorists killed 8 Israelis on Thursday. At least two suicide bombers have targeted Egyptian soldiers in the area. No casualty figures are available. It is estimated that between seven to ten terrorists are involved. On Thursday, Israeli forces believe that they killed seven terrorists, though two of the bodies are on the Egyptian side of the border. Official Israeli estimates now say 27 Israelis were wounded in the terror attack. The terrorists deployed four improvised explosive devices designed to kill civilians on Israeli territory. Two were captured intact by Israeli forces. So far, they are believed to be similar to those used in previous Palestinian attacks. ...
by Bill Levinson Jordan Rohde of the National Jewish Democratic Council cited a Washington Post article that presents many good reasons to vote straight Republican for Federal offices next year. Exceptions include pro-American and pro-worker Democrats like Joe Manchin (D-WV). The Web site quotes David A. Fahrenthold of the Washington Post as follows: It would no longer have a far-reaching health-care law. The House voted to repeal that legislation in January. The people of the United States did not want Obama’s far-reaching health-care law, and we personally worked for the defeat of Kanjorski (D-PA) for voting for it even though he had our vote consistently from 1994 through 2006. Kanjorski forgot that he worked for the people of Northeast Pennsylvania and not for Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid so he was one of the Members of Congress Pelosi “sacrificed” to get Obamacare. Maybe the 72 virgins he got for blowing up his political career while...
We recall a Pew Research survey from several years ago that shows Muslim-Americans to have relatively high income and educational levels, and we were able to find it through a Google search. The survey shows that only 47 percent think of themselves as Muslims first and Americans second. This is not surprising because the U.S. has a long history of immigration by people seeking to escape what passes for “their” religion in the Old Country. In the United Kingdom, however, 81 percent, or more than four out of five, regard themselves as Muslims first and Britons second. The article warns, however, “…younger Muslims in the U.S. are more likely than older Muslim Americans to express a strong sense of Muslim identity, and are much more likely to say that suicide bombing in the defense of Islam can be at least sometimes justified.” The detailed report adds that, even in the... As you all know, the Jerusalem Post has a new editor and here below you will find his Editorial. I find that the editorial is off its mark. Mr. Linde lives in a dream land. The Arab world is not after a Palestinian State; its main megalo idea is the extermination of Israel as a state and the expulsion of all Jews from our mother land. The speeches by the Palestinian authority politicians are double tongued. To the foreign media they try to show that they are moderate, whereas when they talk to the Arab and Moslem media they are extremists, who ferment their hate propaganda against Jews everywhere. The JP of which I have been a reader for the last 60 years used to be a paper were the articles were for the good and future for the citizens of our country. In the last years the paper has changed its politics and had decided to have articles from all sides of the political concepts and one reads the talkbacks to articles which show the spectrum of their readers. The Israeli press has a...
COMPLIMENTS OF Anglo Saxon Ra’anana Real Estate Quote for the Week “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein and we all know who he was. We acknowledge him for the part that he played in the establishment of the Hebrew University and a lot else of course [see item #1] With a total population of about seven million to draw from our universities do pretty well, very well in fact, in their competition with like institutions the world over. The Shanghai Index measures these achievements and here are some of the results. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem established in 1925 climbed to 57th place out of 500 in the annual university rankings published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China – a sharp rise from 72nd place last year. One of the main reasons for the jump was Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss’s winning the 2010 Fields Medal, considered the world’s most prestigious award in mathematics.... Israel must credibly convey that support for unilateral Palestinian statehood will not be a cost-free decision for whoever acts to effect it – or fails to act to foil it. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein As September 20 – and the Palestinian unilateral initiative (UDI) for UN endorsement of a state within the 1949 armistice lines – approaches, Israeli policymakers would do well to adopt this perceptive dictum as a conceptual compass and an operational guideline in formulating effective responses to the looming diplomatic offensive. This must be done by sustained...
News Release The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for promoting a bill that seeks to cut from the U.S. foreign assistance legislation for 2012 the component from U.S. military aid to Israel that is earmarked for three elite Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units – the Israeli Navy’s Shayetet 13 unit, the undercover Duvdevan unit and the Israel Air Force’s Shaldag unit. These units have been on the front lines protecting Israeli citizens in counter-terrorist operations, hunting down terrorists and securing Israel’s borders. In contrast, Senator Leahy has never called for reducing aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA), despite the PA’s continuing failure to arrest terrorists, outlaw terrorists groups, end the promotion of hatred and violence against Israel and its recently signed unity agreement...
As anyone who has backpacked abroad knows, one nationality takes pains to distinguish itself. Whether to express cultural pride or—more likely—to preempt the detested confusion with their southern neighbors, Canadians’ conspicuous use of the maple leaf is a testament to their determination to stand apart. Understandably so: All too often, Canada is viewed by outsiders as merely a northward extension of the United States. So, too, with Canada’s Jewish community; the heading “North American Jewry,” for example, is usually just another way of saying “American Jewry.” What, most Israelis (and Americans) ask, besides an eccentric pronunciation of the word “about,” and an insistence on the superiority of the Montreal (over Manhattan) bagel, makes Canadian Jews any different from the vast majority of coreligionists...22 rockets strike Israel day after coordinated terror attacks kill 8
Terrorists attack Egyptian Army
National Jewish Democratic Council shows why we should vote Republican
More than Half of U.S. Muslims are Loyal Citizens
Leftist Editor takes charge of JPOST
Good News Israel
Come September…
ZOA Criticizes Sen. Leahy for Seeking Cut in U.S. Aid to Elite I.D.F. Forces
Yes, Canadian Jews are different
Saturday, 20 August 2011
BY ARLENE KUSHNER
I have learned that the Shin Bet had picked up information days ago about an attack initiated from the Sinai that was being planned by the Popular Resistance Committees. Thus, troops — from the Counter-Terrorism YAMAM Unit and the elite Golani Brigade — had already been deployed along the Israel-Sinai border.
The expectation had been that PRC was planning abduction of one or more Israelis, possibly soldiers, in a stealth operation under cover of night. What happened, then, according to reports, diverged from what had been anticipated not only in terms of time of day, but also locale, as the terrorists entered Israel at a point not far from an Egyptian military installation.
The prior intelligence explains how Barak was able to announce so quickly that the source of the attack was Gaza, and why the air strike aimed first for the PRC headquarters.
Without question, the toll of dead and wounded would have been far worse, had the military not...
22 rockets strike Israel day after coordinated terror attacks kill 8
At least 7 wounded as Palestinians fire Grad, Qassam missiles at Israel; Iron Dome successfully intercepts rocket bound for Ashdod.
Everybody has the right to be judged by the content of his character
by Bill Levinson
The urgent imperative
The “Palestinian Problem” was created – or at least elevated to its present prominence – by Israel’s recognition of the Palestinians as a legitimate national entity. It can only be resolved – or at least reduced to future insignificance – by retracting that recognition.
But Leahy supported increased aid to PA
When ZOA Opposed PA aid in ’94, Leahy said to Klein, ‘You’re Not a Real American’
Reviewed by Marla Braverman
Rekindling the Torch: The Story of Canadian Zionism
by David J. Azrieli
Key Porter Books, 2008, 272 pages.
Ted Belman
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