The Durban racism conference, held in Durban, South Africa, took place in September, 2001. It quickly degraded from a true conference on racism to an opportunity for Arab nations to join together in criticizing Israel. As the Durban conference commenced, the world was watching the second Palestinian Intifada and witnessed the constant onslaught of terrorism [...]
Categories: United Nations, United States of America
If you saw the movie Fight Club, you remember the part where Tyler Durden gave everyone a homework assignment. These assignments were designed to disrupt society in ways that helped people find the best in themselves. My homework assignments have a similar goal. Do something out of the ordinary to help Israel. We will start [...]
Categories: Iran, Nuclear Weapons
The 120 members of the new Knesset will official start work today as they are sworn into office. The ceremony will bring the new Knesset in after a three month lapse since the 17th Knesset was disbanded. The longest serving MK, Michael Eitan of the Likud, will become acting Speaker of the Knesset until a [...]
Categories: Politics
The IDF responded to rocket attacks that damaged homes in Sderot by striking smuggling tunnels around Gaza. If the IDF already knows where they are, why didn’t the blow them up in the first place? Rockets also fell on the Eshkol region. In my humble opinion, Israel needs a Cast Lead II to deal with [...]
Categories: Gaza Strip
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Categories: Internet, The Israel Situation
Our good buddy to the Northeast, Syria, put the former nuclear site destroyed by Israel last year to good use. While the land is not being used for a new nuclear plant, the site is being used for a military purpose. Syria has confirmed that a new missile site has been built on the former [...]
Categories: Nuclear Weapons, Syria
Israel attacks? Nope. Palestinians attacks? Yep. As usual, lots of terrorist rocket attacks continue to rain down on Israel. Rocket attacks continue into the Negev from Gaza. Two kassam rockets hit Israel on Wednesday. Hamas has declared a cease fire. Interesting… It doesn’t seem like a cease fire. Rockets have hit Israel almost every day [...]
Categories: Gaza Strip, Hamas
The United States is joining in a rebuild Gaza campaign and has pledged $900 million to the cause. United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Egypt working out the details now. The United States will “keep the money out of Hamas’ hands” by giving the funds to various NGOs to do the rebuilding [...]
Categories: Arab World, Gaza Strip, Hamas, United States of America
–Rachel’s Blog Interesting campus news from Northern California: a pro-Israel student senator at U.C. Berkeley, John Moghtader, has been forced into a recall vote, which he believes is due to his pro-Israel views. His critics contend that Moghtader is creating an unsafe environment on campus, through his active Zionist group Tikvah. The recall, which is [...]
Categories: Anti-Semitism, Zionism
Three Lebanese rockets landed in Israel on Saturday wounding three Israeli citizens. The rocket that wounded civilians landed in an Israeli Arab village. Residents of the village at first thought the explosion was thunder from a rain storm. It turned out not to be the case. The IDF responded with mortar fire into Lebanon. While [...]
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