Category: Israel

Photo Credit: courtesy Rabbi Nataf At the end of this week’s parsha, we see something curious: Although the song of Haazinu is – both before it and after it – thoroughly associated with Moshe, it was not presented to the Jewish people by him alone. Rather we are informed that Yehoshua (here, Hoshea) was also […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Samuel Guerra President Donald J. Trump {Written by Shay Attias and originally posted to the BESA website} Forbes‘s World’s Most Powerful People Index of 2019 Advertisement ‘); _avp.push({ tagid: article_top_ad_tagid, alias: ‘/’, type: ‘banner’, zid: ThisAdID, pid: 16, onscroll: 0 }); Unlike Obama during his first term […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot One of Halle’s Yom Kippur shooting lying in the street. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that anti-Semitism was certainly one of the shooter’s motives, in his attack on a Synagogue in eastern Germany on Yom Kippur. A statement of the obvious? Possibly, except that after having killed one person […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 Two former Yamina party leaders Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett Following the request by Yamina earlier this week to split into two factions, New Right and Habayit Hayehudi-National Union, over technical constraints, on Thursday, the Knesset Regulating Committee approved the split. MK Matan Kahane represented New Right in the committee meeting […]

Photo Credit: Yaakov Lederman/Flash90 The Island of Peace in Naharaim, northern Israel, on the border with Jordan, March 31, 2017. Jordan Valley Regional Council Head Idan Greenbaum on Thursday sent a personal letter to Jordan’s King Abdullah II, asking to meet with him in order to reach a new settlement that would allow Israeli farmers […]

Photo Credit: Flash90 Maj. Gen Yair Golan, outgoing IDF deputy chief of staff Incoming freshman Member of Knesset from the leftist, Democratic Union list, Yair Golan, did it again. Golan’s constant delegitimization of his political opponents on the right, smacks of the same delegitimization that tyrants, dictators, demagogues and assorted totalitarians always use, just before […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah In a Tuesday sermon at the Sayyed Shuhada Complex in Beirut’s southern suburb Dahiyeh, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called on the people of the Middle East not to bet on the US for support, because it is untrustworthy. Nasrallah said the events taking place […]

Photo Credit: Screenshot Kurdish refugees fleeing their homes in northern Syria Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md) on Wednesday released a draft of sanctions against Turkey, in response to the Turkish military assault on Kurdish forces as well as civilians in northern Syria. The senators say their sanctions will go into effect […]

Photo Credit: Facebook {Originally posted to the Abu Yehuda website} In the US, there is a Jewish Voice for Peace, an If Not Now, a J Street, an Open Hillel, and a Tzedek Chicago – and probably a hundred other Jewish organizations with the same general objective. All would deny it, but they act politically […]

Photo Credit: The White House screen grab via Twitter President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. President Donald Trump threatened Monday to “obliterate” Turkey’s economy if Ankara does anything the president considers to be “off limits.” As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great […]