The similarities between what Golda Meir faced in 73 – with Israel trapped between the two front of Syria and Egypt, both orchestrated by the Soviet Union – with the situation today are troubling. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he attends a state memorial ceremony for former Prime Minister Golda Meir at Mount…
Black smoke from burning tires hangs in the sky as Palestinian protesters hurl stones toward Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, Friday, Oct. 12, 2018 AP Photo/Khalil Hamra 130 Gazans were injured from live fire according to the Palestinian Health Ministry as some 10,000 protested. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deployed…
A Hamas military drill in the Gaza Strip in March 2018. Photo: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. JNS.org – The High Holidays, a time when nothing much gets done in Israel, are over, and as we return to our turbulent day-to-day lives on the front lines, the mentality is one of battle. Primarily, this means that cross-border terrorist activity…
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday demanded a “total” ceasefire from Gaza’s Hamas rulers in his first public comments on another deadly flare-up between the two sides. There have been efforts by UN officials and Egypt to secure a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas, though Israeli officials have not commented on them….
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman discuss the confrontation with Iran and Syria on February 10 2018. Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense Families of slain IDF soldiers slam gov’t over negotiating deal without guaranteeing return of sons’ remains Israel’s security cabinet is set to convene in Jerusalem…
While protests, attempts to infiltrate Israel’s border fence, and fire kites have slowed some in recent weeks, no one has declared the crisis over and the IDF still views the situation as ongoing. ALESTINIANS PRAY yesterday next to the bodies of Hamas terrorists killed by Israeli tank fire, during their funeral at a mosque in…
Israelis deserve a government that protects them. Instead it offers endless conflict, conscripts them, silences fallen soldiers’ families, and deflects responsibility for thousands of Palestinian deaths. Israeli soldiers from the Nahal Infantry Brigade wear night vision devices inside an underground tunnel in an urban warfare drill at an army base near Arad, southern Israel. February…
Fate of Iran’s presence in Syria rests with Trump-Putin meeting ■ Israeli official to EU counterparts: Iran nuke deal is dead, and you insist on giving it Advil. Iran’s Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri and other senior officers on the front line in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria, October 2017/AP Israel…
An IDF tank maneuvers in the Golan Heights. (IDF) The IDF is stepping up its presence on the border with Syria ahead of Assad’s advance. The IDF augmented its forces on Israel’s northern border with Syria Sunday following the southward advance of President Bashar al-Assad’s army and the heavy fighting adjacent to Israel’s Golan Heights….
Jerusalem (CNN)In one of the biggest exchanges of fire between the two sides in years, militants in Gaza launched some 45 rockets toward Israel early Wednesday morning, prompting retaliatory airstrikes from Israeli fighter jets, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Seven of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system, IDF…