There is no question that the withdrawal of a foreign army from any country should be hailed with a sense of relief and joy; even if it was an ally its withdrawal indicates that the country is self-governing and is capable of defending itself independently. Meanwhile, the Israeli withdrawal...

By Samuel Langdon, 1788 Liberty Fund, Inc http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=816&layout=html Permission has been given to reprint the following Political Sermon of the American Founding Era. This material originally appeared on the Online ...

A lot of pre-talks positioning is going on, ahead of six-nation talks with Iran on its nuclear program in Istanbul at the end of the week. One Israeli writer suggested that it amounts to indirect negotiations between Iranian and Israeli leaders...

Upcoming talks with Iran about its nuclear program are shaping up to be another defining moment. Will Iran, or will it not, make compromises required by the UN Security Council and asked by U.S. President Obama, in order to obtain confidence in its leaders' statements that they have no intention of developing nuclear weapons. In order to regain confidence, it seems that Iran will have -- at least for a time -- to voluntarily suspend rights it has under the NPT Treaty to develop its own national peaceful nuclear program. An Iranian politican said this week that his country is now capable of producing, and has the ability to assemble, a nuclear weapon. A leading Israeli military official said the same thing, just days earlier... The question is, what will Iran do now?

This article discusses the implications of Western media publicity around Israeli military threats against Iran and the legal and moral aspects of current Western confrontational strategy towards Iran.

By Rafi www.worldofjudaica.com http://settlersofsamaria.org/vote-ron-paul-free-israel/ Lately I´ve been having trouble sleeping. I sit here in my living room in Karnei Shomron, Israel, on the 8th night of Chanukah, wondering what other miracles lay in store on January 3rd and in the...

Judaization of the holy city, is a roadmap to de-Arabizing, de-Islamizing, de-Christianizing, de-historizing and de-humanizing Jerusalem

By Bill Wilson www.dailyjot.com There are many Christians who do not believe that the current nation of Israel is Israel in the Biblical sense. There are many who do not believe the word of G-d in Genesis 12:3 which says of Israel, "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that cu...

My new Arabic editorial (text/Audio) carries the title: "Israel Is Not the Enemy, But the Syrian and Iranian Axis Of Evil Regimes are". It  focuses with complete openness and transparency on "Israel The Enemy" tag and dissects it to differentiate with solid facts reality from fantasy and truth from ...

Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, creating a giant refugee camp and calling it Palestine is not a humanitarian thing to do! In fact it is a criminal act and it must stop now! If it does not stop, if the blockade is not removed immediately, the world will treat Israel in much the same way Is...

The General Assembly of the United Nations is likely to have stormy 66th session this year as the Palestinian authorities would seek recognition of the Palestine state by international communities at the United Nations. By now majority member countries of the world body do recognize that Palesti...

Israel is a beautiful country located in the Mediterranean Sea. Israel tourist destinations with their diverse nature and history attract many tourists every year.

Fierce and bloody demonstrations, unyielding young protestors, the burning of the Israeli flag, destruction of a barrier built by the Egyptian government to protect the Embassy premises and eventually alleged break in of the Embassy's office. These were the scenes on September 9th in Cairo, just in ...

In his new book, Ro´i Tov seeks to reveal life in Israel as a Christian Israel Defense Force (IDF) officer– from human rights violations to the use of an extensive network of underground agents.

Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak prevailed over Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Israel decided to apologize to Turkey for "mistakes" committed by the Israeli special forces during the "justified" operation aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla, in which 9 Turkish citizens died.

Gazans fear a major Israeli attack now, after being targetted for a still-mysterious attack carried out by persons reportedly wearing Egyptian military uniforms in southern Israel near Eilat [hundreds of miles south of Gaza] on Thursday. A Gazan militant group blamed by Israel for the attack in Eilat has denied responsibility, but is among several groups firing rockets and other projectiles onto Israeli areas surrounding Gaza, in reprisal for Israeli attacks. Casualtiees are mounting, and on Friday evening, the armed wing of Hamas, now ruling Gaza, declared an end to a cease-fire with Israel. Gaza's panicked residents who are unable to escape the blocked coastal strip now fear a repeat of the worst.

It is well known to all Middle East analysts and specialists as well as to Western and Arab countries that the majority of the terrorist and jihadist organizations all over the world, including al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, are mere military tools and proxies that are found, financed, used, sponso...

An Israeli military move move -- leaked and widely reported authoritatively in the Israeli media, though only hinted at by the IDF spokespersons -- to plant new mines in the Golan to deter protesters coming across from Syria in September has just been strongly criticized by the Nobel Peaze Prize winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). The Israeli "leaked" reports, the first sourced confirmation of the newly-planted Israeli minefields on the Golan, were picked up from an Israeli military magazine and republished in the first week of August. A report published today quotes Kasia Derlicka, Director of the ICBL, as saying: "to hear that these mines are aimed at civilians is particularly shocking". In May and June, Palestinian demonstrators living in Syria rushed across the Golan, reportedly crossing minefields along the way, and a number of the protesters were killed. The Israeli military is preparing for possible protests as the Palestinian leadership is preparing to go to the United Nations in September to launch a process aimed at full UN membership for a Palestinian state.

Alon Ben-Meir - August 8, 2011 Coexistence between Israel and the Palestinians is inevitable and, short of catastrophic developments, the two peoples are doomed or destined to live between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River. They must now decide on the quality of that coexistence. Do they want ...

My new Arabic audio commentary that was posted on the LCCC web site and the Phoenician News line today is based on the below Isaiah's verses that speak about God's wrath and how He will punish the wicked and the evil who do not follow His holy Book, advocate for sin, preach hatred and commit crime....

Alon Ben-Meir - July 25, 2011 While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that the Palestinians recognize the State of Israel as a Jewish state, his policies encourage a mass exodus of Jewish Israelis from the country. Today, the notion of a Jewish refuge in the land of Israel is greatly at ris...

Israel and Hamas are currently locked in a perpetual standoff. Hamas is emboldened by the flurry of international attention on the situation in Gaza, despite the improved conditions following the ease of the blockade by Israel after the first flotilla episode and Egypt's opening of the border crossi...

This is an in-depth interview with Abolghasem Bayyenat, an indpendent political analyst and author of "Iran Diplomacy Watch" blog, conducted by Veterans Today's political journalist Kourosh Ziabari.The interview covers various aspects of Iran's nuclear issue and its stand-off with the West.

On the surface, the current stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process seems illogical. After all, each side knows, with the exception of the Netanyahu government, that the basic framework of a negotiated settlement: a two-state solution based on the 1967 border with land swaps that keep the...

The fact that Israeli and Turkish officials have begun to renew dialogue at a time of significant uncertainty and turmoil in the broader Middle East is, of course, no coincidence. Israel and Turkey are rare anchors of stability in an increasingly volatile region. With the Arab Spring, Jerusalem and ...

In recent years Palestinian propagandists and their international supporters have attempted to brand Israel with the label of apartheid. In many international circles this political charlatanism has succeeded in giving the Middle-East's one and only democracy a black eye. However, if one begins to search for the truth, one finds that reality is quite the opposite of that which the Palestinians peddle to a very gullible world.

Israel has witnessed and survived through many convulsions in the Arab street. In 1953, Nasser's youthful and reform-inclined pan-Arabism swept the Arab world. The long-term fruit of this hopeful tumult, though, was Mubarak. The revolutionary Baa'th parties in Syria and Iraq gave us Saddam Hussein and the murderous Assad dynasty. Israel is very skeptical when it comes to yet another Arab Spring. It tends to support reactionary regimes because they are predictable and easy to do business with. Israel is a natural foe of progress and democracy in the region because it would like to maintain its monopoly on these important political currencies.

This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at...

"Israel has no better friend than America, and America has no better friend than Israel." Benjamin Netanyahu In a speech before a joint session of Congress this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed what so many of us know to be true: Israel is the only true friend America h...

The United States has the power to immediately solve the Israeli/Palestinian situation and end all terrorism. This can simply be done by the US annexing part of either Afghanistan or Iraq to the Palestinian people and recognizing this land as the New State of Palestine.

Palestinian refugees worldwide marked the 63rd anniversary of their dispossession by attempting to cross all Israeli military boundaries that keep them out of their former homes. Palestinian protesters intend to cross through Qalandia checkpoint today without permits or military checks, as if it were not there... as if they were free, and not under direct military occupation. Israeli military spokesman called the protesters "rioters" who were challenging the sovereignty of the State of Israel. Hundreds were injured in the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. But, that's not all: one teenager was killed in Gaza, and at least ten were killed on the Lebanese and Syrian military boundaries guarded by Israel. The May 15 event in Golan came closest of all to achieving stated goal of overwhelming thru sheer numbers (Israeli officials expressed surprise. What did the "infiltrators" really want? We get an idea from the case of one "Syrian", as he is described in a Reuters report in Haaretz Monday night, who managed to get across the Israeli lines in the Golan, into Majdal Shams ... and then all the way to Jaffa to see his family's home in what was Palestine until the proclamation of the State of Israel on 14-15 May 1948.

This movie has a subject of terrorism which will increase your knowledge in this area. Only if you have knowledge then you can make plans against terrorism. This movie has come out on May.9, 2011. Brandon Assanti directed it really a good manner.

Shula Megiddo says, "Folie A Deux will interest any audience in the psychological & psychiatric field, and their clients as well, because Folie A Deux, though it is in the first place a love story, could almost be read as a case history."

Despite an American counteroffer, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas insisted on putting to a UN Security Council vote a draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian property. The result was a vote of 14 in favor, 1 against: the United States. The U.S. explanation for its veto -- widely and bitterly mocked as incoherent in comments by journalists and Middle East experts on Twitter Friday night -- was that it did not think that Middle East peace should be negotiated in the Security Council -- but instead in bilateral Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Palestinians have refused to re-enter these negotiations precisely because of Israel's continued settlement activities. The U.S. counteroffer to the Palestinians offered agreement on a UN Security Council Presidential statement which would have authorized a visit by a delegation of members of the UN Security Council to the Middle East, plus stronger language than heretofore on the Israeli settlements. After this offer was rejected, and the veto was cast, American officials said the U.S. offer was "no longer viable".

Support Israel in Canada rally July 1 2011 12:00 noon at Yonge and Queen sts Toronto. Bring an Israel flag with your Canada one.

Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyah made a surprising offer on Friday, standing next to Quartet envoy Tony Blair in Jerusalem, to develop Palestinian-allocated offshore natural gas deposits buried under the eastern Mediterranean in maritime space, defined by mutual agreement under the Oslo Accords, that extends 20 nautical miles out from Gaza´s coastline. Israel presently has a long-term, highly-concessionary agreement to buy natural gas from Egypt. But, Netanyahu said, Israel was interested in diversifying its suppliers. And, he said, the move would help the Palestinian economy, which would in turn help insure "stability" and "security". The Palestinian gas is located off Gaza's coast, and Hamas is currently in control of the Gaza Strip. But, the Israeli proposal either implies that the tacit consent of Hamas has been obtained -- or that Israel and the PA would go ahead with the deal without Hamas. Plans were to send the extracted gas to the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon for refining, and then to distribute most of it inside Israel (with a small portion being returned to Gaza for domestic consumption). There was no talk of a pipeline to the West Bank.

Important moves are being made behind the scenes -- with cooperation between almost all, if not all, important regional actors -- to shore up security in the strategic Sinai Peninsula, as Egyptian protests calling for Husni Mubarak to stand down as the country's Present (a post he has held for 30 years). The Israeli Army has agreed, on an exceptional basis, to allow some 100-150 Egyptian Army personnel to deploy all along their country's Sinai border, from Gaza on the Mediterranean Sea down to Eilat on the Red Sea. Further moves are also being examined -- they would require cooperation and consent from a number of parties, including the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza.

Hezbollah, the armed Iranian-Syrian terrorist proxy, is resorting to all sorts of force, terrorism, intimidation, threats, bribery, division, sectarianism, and instigation to install a new puppet government in Lebanon after toppling on January 13/2010 the Hariri national unity one in response to dir...

Once again, journalists -- not all of them "foreign" -- have been subjected to "despicable treatment" by Israeli security services at the entry to a press event in Jerusalem. This time, the event was a press conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, sponsored by the Government Press Office (GPO) which is part of the Prime Minister's office -- though invitations were sent to journalists by a private advocacy organization, The Israel Project. Female reporters for Al-Jazeera were asked to remove their bras. They refused and were barred entry. The procedures one described are identical to those some passengers have experienced while trying to travel to Israel (particularly on board El Al flights) -- or at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport upon departure from the country. At Tuesday's press event, one male photographer was ordered to lower his trousers, but when he refused, he was told that he could not refuse...

Three activists -- one Israeli, one West Bank Palestinian, one East Jerusalem Palestinian -- faced Israeli punishment this week. Two were jailed, one was deported -- though Israeli deportation of Palestinians, whatever it is called, is specifically prohibited by the Road Map that the United States (and the Quartet whose formation the U.S. supported) have endorsed.

Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, it is surprising and appalling to me that in 2011, people continue to struggle for the basic human right to exist! We Homo Sapiens are the most enlightened human beings on the face of the Earth, with the wonderful ability to instantly communicate around th...

Another tragedy in the West Bank: another Palestinian demonstrator has died as a result of Israeli soldiers shooting tear gas during a regular weekly demonstration in a rural area of the West Bank. Jawaher Abu Rahmah was mortally affected by tear gas inhalation on Friday on the outskirts of the village of Bilin. She died on Saturday morning, after doctors in Ramallah Hospital struggled through the night to save her life. She was buried on Saturday afternoon in Bil'in right next to the grave of her younger brother, Bassem Abu Rahmah, who died after a direct hit to his chest from an IDF-fired high-velocity tear gas canister during a demonstration in April 2009 along the route of The Wall in Bilin. At least 21 Palestinians have died during West Bank demonstrations against Israel's "security barrier" in the last half-decade. The Israeli Army said it is investigating Jawaher's death. But, the IDF spokesperson's unit released photos of teenagers with slingshots that were said to prove IDF claims that "250 rioters" were throwing stones, making the demonstration violent. Israeli activists present said that this was a "lie". They said that some 1,000 protesters had participated in a demonstration dedicated to non-violence. By Sunday, the IDF claimed that Palestinians had also thrown Molotov Cocktails at Israeli soldiers several hundred meters away. Israeli activists and journalists present reported during Friday's demonstration that an unusual quantity of tear gas had been used against protesters. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad made a symbolic appearance at the demonstration, but left quickly. He was not exposed to any tear gas. It is especially ironic that three years ago, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the Israeli Army to re-route The Wall in that area, which enclosed almost half of the land belonging to Bilin villagers in order to protect nearby Israeli settlements with an extended security perimeter zone. So far, however, the 48% of Bilin's land that is sealed off by The Wall is still off-limits to Bilin farmers.

The Palestinian contribution to the international battle against a huge forest fire that burned out-of-control for four days in the Carmel hills near Haifa in Israel's Galilee region is completed, and the Palestinian firemen were back at work in the West Bank on Monday. After initial Israeli hesitation, arrangements were made to bring the Palestinian firemen into Israel for a long day's work on Sunday. "Actually, they should have asked us from the beginning", said Major Ibrahim Aish, head of Bethlehem's Civil Defense Directorate, who also headed the team that went to Israel on Sunday.

A group of 21 Palestinian firemen left the West Bank before dawn on Sunday, on the direct orders of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to join hundreds of firefighters from dozens of countries in the battle against the huge fire that broke out in the north of Israel on Thursday. The Palestinians were escorted by the Israeli Army across a checkpoint and into what is known here as "Israel proper". They reached the Haifa area five hours after they set off from the West Bank -- record time for Palestinians, few of whom have been permitted to enter Israel during most of the past decade, but the trip would have taken an Israel not more than an hour or two. By Sunday evening, Israel authorities announced that the fire, in the Carmel hills near Haifa, had finally been brought under control for the first time since it broke out on Thursday. But, Israeli authorities warn that it will be days before all the flames will be finally extinguished.

The huge fire in Israel's northern region, the Carmel hills of the Galilee near Haifa, is still out of control despite the intervention of the Israeli Defense Forces and specialized teams from Russia and, now, the U.S., as well as a number of other countries. Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu said Saturday in Haifa that there was no shame in reaching out for help to deal with this "unique event". Israel has extended assistance to others in the past, and is now receiving very extensive help to deal with this emergency, he said. The aid Israel received from the Palestinian Authority to deal with this fire is very important, Netanyahu added, and Israel -- which was caught short when this huge blaze broke out -- is now planning to build up a regional fire-fighting network to "benefit all our peoples"...

Statement by Elias Bejjani on Forest Fire in Israel On behalf of the Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC), I offer my condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the recent devastating forest fire in the State of Israel, and wish a quick recovery to those who...

Israelis are glued to the television sets watching video shots of huge walls of red-orange flames burn in the beautiful Galilee region of the Carmel hills, near the important northern port city of Haifa. So far, at least 41 people have died in a brush fire that quickly got out of control on Thursday. By Thursday afternoon, the Israeli leadership swallowed hard and appealed for international help. Despite the arrival of quick assistance, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu appealed for more fire-fighting planes and specialized chemicals, as the fire continued to burn out of control, and shifted direction with the wind.

The background of the story in brief is Xhemajledin Mustafi, introducing himself to be the advisor to the Ministry, offered job to many people in the ministry. Dr. Bujar Osmani is the minister in charge of the ministry of Health. Xhemajledin Mustafi would generally conduct the negotiations on Skype as he claimed to be travelling over Europe, as part of his Macedonian government business. He was frequently changing his cell phone numbers and skype addresses while contacting various Israeli nationals.

No surprise then Palestinian negotiators are almost concluding that enough is enough

Why did Israel give UNRWA authorization -- now -- to have four "submachine" guns in Gaza? Five years ago, Israel completed a unilateral "disengagement" of some 8,000 settlers and the military forces protecting them. But, almost nothing gets into or out of Gaza without Israeli permission. Why did UNRWA ask? What good are four "submachine" guns going to do, if there is really a problem? Is the UN now going to start shooting the place up, too?