Parash Hill, a nature reserve in southern Israel, is a great spot for a picnic. With lush green fields and a view all the way to the Mediterranean, it is a serene and picturesque place where residents of Sderot come to quietly enjoy nature. But in a nation obsessed...
Taking a short break from lashing out at the international media for reporting the growing civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke in detail about the events leading up to the US abstention from the United Nations Security...
By a margin of 26-3, the Israeli Central Elections Committee decided to ban the Balad Party from running in next month's election. By a margin of 21-8, they also banned the United Arab List-Ta'al (UAL-T). The two bans will prevent more than half of the current Arab...
Over 600 militants from both the local area and Afghanistan launched a frontal assault on three checkpoints in Pakistan's border Mohmand Agency, sparking a several hour gunfight which led to the deaths of at least 40 of the attackers and six Pakistani soldiers. At...
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert touted his military's "impressive gains" in having killed nearly 900 people in the first 15 days of the war in the Gaza Strip, the question everyone really wants to know is how much longer this whole war business is going to take....
In an interview with the Austrian weekly "Profil," Israeli Ambassador to Austria and Slovenia Dan Ashbel declared that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) "has been taken over by Hamas and is being used as a weapon against its own people." The UNRWA is...
Who would've thought that killing a school full of civilians in a refugee camp would be such a difficult thing for the Israeli government to get its story straight on? Five days since causing over 100 civilian casualties with a mortar attack on a UN girls' school,...
As a popular party with Israel's large Arab minority, the Balad Party has been seen as a prime mover behind the nation's domestic antiwar movement. Though officials have repeatedly warned them that "there is a limit to democracy" in Israel, this opposition party never...
When officials in the Israeli government said its ongoing war in the Gaza Strip was no longer about military goals but was about "pressuring Egypt" for better terms in its ongoing attempt to broker a ceasefire, it is unlikely the pressure was meant to be this direct....
The United Nations Security Council's bid to halt the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip with a non-binding resolution calling for a durable ceasefire never had much momentum behind it, but as French and British diplomats scrambled to get the deal together amid repeated...
