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 spent four decades trying to undo its consequences. The real anniversary of the war should be now, three weeks earlier. On May 16, 1967, Egyptian
Read More +Today in Jewish History – Iyar 28
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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1967, Israeli paratroopers completed their capture of the Old City of Jerusalem, restoring Jewish control of the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. Soldiers danced, sang and cried at the Western Wall, the site of Jewish prayers for centuries. A plaza was cleared in front of the Wall, and one week later, tens of thousands of Jews swarmed to the site on the holiday of Shavuot. Iyar 28 is celebrated today as Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating the reunification of the Holy City, which has stood as the capital of the Jewish nation for 3,000 years.
Read More +Via Israel HighWay: Most Jews in Israel and throughout the world barely remember a time when the Old City of Jerusalem and the rest of east Jerusalem were not an important part of the fabric of the city and the country. For 19 years, from the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 until the Six Day War in 1967, Jerusalem was a city divided by barbed wire and dangerous “no-man’s land” running roughly north to south separating the Jewish people from the Old City of Jerusalem. The Old City, the City of David, was the cornerstone of 2,000
Read More +Today in Jewish History – Nissan 4
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Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1948, a convoy of 78 Jewish medical personnel, en route to Hadassah Hospital in the Jewish enclave of Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, were killed in an Arab ambush. The ambush cut off the hospital from the rest of Israel and forced Hadassah to relocate, eventually opening a larger medical center in 1961 at Ein Kerem. The Mount Scopus facility would reopen after Jerusalem was reunited in 1967.
Read More +Be berry, berry qwiet. Don’t look now, but Jordan wants to resume its re-occupation of Jerusalem that it had previously occupied from 1948 to 1967, where no Muslim, Jew, or Christian was allowed to pray, with no peep of outrage from the international community. Yet, when Jews are in their indigenous homeland, and open up the Temple Mount so that Muslim, Jew and Christian could pray, the world is infuriated. Arab occupation of Jewish land = good. Jewish occupation of Jewish land = bad. That’s Arabist logic for you. Not surprising from a culture whose greatest gift to civilization is
Read More +From IsraelNN.com: Syria has stationed thousands of missiles along the Israeli border, Agence France-Presse reported, relying on unnamed military sources who said the rockets are camouflaged or hidden underground and can strike from the Kinneret to Haifa. IDF officials responded that they have not noted any unusual activity and that Syria is not preparing to attack Israel, but increased arms sales from Russia to Syria have brought back bitter memories of 1973. Top military and intelligence advisors convinced Golda Meir, who was then Prime Minister, that her fears of war were exaggerated. The day before the Yom Kippur War broke
Read More +Gall of the Hashemites
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More proof that anti-Zionism is racism. An excellent article from the excellent New York Sun, Gall of the Hashemites: If one were to distill 110% wrongheadedness and then distill it again a second, third, and fourth time, one couldn’t come up with a speech as purely wrongheaded as the one that the Hashemite king, Abdullah II, delivered yesterday to a joint meeting of Congress. The king’s aim amounted to blaming Israel for all the world’s problems. “The wellspring of regional division, the source of resentment and frustration far beyond, is the denial of justice and peace in Palestine,” the king
Read More +By Hillel FendelA7 News Tuesday, January 23, 20074 Shevat 5767—————-The Yesha Council highlights the deceptions in a recent study by the ultra-left wing Peace Now group purporting to show that 40% of Yesha communities are built on private Arab land. “The so-called facts in the Peace Now report are from the true reality,” the Yesha Council says. The Yesha Council has named its report, currently underway, “The Protocols of Peace Now – the Great Deception.” It includes maps, documents, quotations – and an itemized list of “simple, ridiculous mistakes, as well as the lack of sincerity, that typify the criminal
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