40 km is a long way. Two rockets landed in Be’er Sheva today, including a rocket that hit an empty kindergarden. With one of Israel’s largest cities now in range, Israel cannot stop striking Hamas terrorists. This is a war. Both sides are firing. This is not the massacre reported in anti-Semitic media. My roommate [...]
Categories: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Operation Cast Lead, Sderot
Today is December 31st. To most people it is New Years. To me it is an anniversary of something that changed my life.
Categories: Jerusalem, Judaism, The Israel Situation
Ben-Ami Kadish, an 85 year old American, pleaded guilty to spying for Israel in the 1980′s. Kadish, born in Connecticut, checked out documents from a military library and took them home where an Israeli spy took photographs of the classified books, maps, and plans. Kadish was working with the same higher level agent who worked [...]
Categories: Diplomacy, United States of America
Iranian university students in Tehran have started to sign up for an unofficial list of volunteers to fight Israel. The list has amassed hundreds of names so far and the students are planning a parade. This is proof that it is not just the government of Iran that wants to kill the Jews, it spreads [...]
Categories: Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Iran, Operation Cast Lead
While it does not make big news, Israelis are being killed in this war too. Hamas rockets have injured dozens and killed three on Monday. The dead were a career IDF officer, a civilian mother of four children in Ashdod, and a Bedouin man in Ashkelon. One rocket hit an elementary school yard.
Categories: Hamas, Operation Cast Lead
MEMRI posted a news story outlining a handful of Palestinian press sources all pointing the finger for recent Gaza violence at Hamas. A handful of PA leaders, including PA President Abbas, Bassem Abu-Sumayyah, director of the Palestinian TV & Radio Authority, Hafez Al-Barghouthi, editor of newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, and Abdallah Awwad, columnist at Al-Ayyam, blame [...]
Categories: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Operation Cast Lead, Palestinian Authority
From Anthony Reich A special war blog. The inevitable happened, and the IDF finally struck Gaza. The Israeli government was given no choice in the matter, as no responsible government would allow its citizens to be bombarded day after day without acting to protect them. And so Operation “Cast Lead” was initiated by surprise during [...]
Categories: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Operation Cast Lead
The central bank of Israel has proven that Israel is just as tied up in the world economy as any other country. For the fifth time this year, the Bank of Israel, headquartered in Jerusalem, cut interest rates. This time it was .75%. The rate now stands at a record low of 1.75%. The shekel [...]
Categories: Economy
In Mosul, I thought everyone had one thing in common: they all hate Israel. A massive protest against Israel was taking place in Mosul, a city in Northern Iraq, when a terrorist rode his bicycle into the crowd and detonated the bomb strapped to his body. One person was killed in the blast and another [...]
Categories: Arab World, Gaza Strip, Operation Cast Lead, Terrorism
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