Muslims don’t want peace, they don’t want two states, they only want Israel to make the ultimate sacrifice and disembowel herself. Now Hamas and Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian-brokered truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip after talks in Egypt, saying it must include all Palestinian territories, including the West Bank. However, one fact seems to always fly past the snouts of...
Armed Palestinian attempts to infiltrate W. Bank settlement
Palestinians doing what they do best. Via Ha’aretz: Israel Defense Forces troops late Sunday opened fire on an armed Palestinian murderer attempting to infiltrate the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, west of Nablus. The soldiers noticed the Palestinian murderer trying to enter the settlement and called out to him to halt. The man refused and opened fire on the troops. None of the...
Germans protest sale of food from West Bank settlements
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A Changing Israeli Consensus on West Bank Withdrawal
From A Changing Israeli Consensus on West Bank Withdrawal: There is a growing consensus in all the camps and across the political spectrum in Israel that a withdrawal from the West Bank is no longer possible. President-elect Shimon Peres wrote last week in Yediot Ahronot: “It is unclear when we will pull out entirely from the territories….Even if we are ready to pull out, we have no...
For Israel, There Was No Peace Before The Land
From the great Charles Krauthammer: There has hardly been an Arab peace plan in the past 40 years — including the current Saudi version — that does not demand a return to the status quo of June 4, 1967. Why is that date so sacred? Because it was the day before the outbreak of the Six Day War in which Israel scored one of the most stunning victories of the 20th century. The Arabs have...