Globe and Mail | Sinai border attack seen as test in Egypt-Israel relationship Jewish Telegraphic Agency Should Israel accede to pressure to modify its 1979 peace treaty with Egypt and allow more Egyptian troops into the Sinai to quell the unrest there? For Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, will his crackdown on ... Attack Seen Testing Egypt-Israel Relationship Egypt Buries 16 Soldiers Slain in Border Attack Egypt Buries Soldiers as Brotherhood Questions Israel Ties |
Daily Beast | A trip report from Israel: 'We have entered the phase of strategic decisions' Foreign Policy (blog) I recently returned from a trip to Israel. I met with a handful of very senior foreign policy and defense officials, but did not speak with any member of the "Forum of Eight" -- Israel's security cabinet that is responsible for key decisions concerning ... When Will Israel Attack Iran? How Iran Is Losing The Shadow War Iran and Israeli Politics |
CBS Local | The ultra-Orthodox tighten their grip in Israel Washington Post 56 from Ramat Shlomo to Mea Shearim with representatives from the New Israel Fund and the Israel Religious Action Center, no one said a word when I sat up front — even if ultra-Orthodox men chose to stand rather than occupy vacant seats nearby. Economist Debates: Is Israel Succumbing To Jewish Fundamentalism? |
Haaretz | Snafu sends Israel travelers flying on air with low-priced tickets Jewish Telegraphic Agency For several months, Leichtling, a New York designer who has led several organized trips to Israel, had been agonizing over how to scrape together enough money to send her parents, ages 66 and 71, to Israel. But the cost of airfare for three – normally ... Online glitch gets Americans cheap flights to Israel on El Al |
Israel's Levant Basin Drilling Opportunity Shadowed By Environmental Concerns Huffington Post The promise of natural gas wealth is enticing an increasing number exploration companies to the eastern Mediterranean, where huge deposits were recently discovered and whose marine ecosystem, Israel's influential environmental groups say, is now ... |
Haaretz | Activists: Israel stopping Palestinians from suing Boston.com JERUSALEM (AP) — Human rights lawyers say Israel's Justice Ministry is making it tough for Palestinians and migrants to file suit in an Israeli court. Under an amended regulation taking effect Sept. 1, petitioners must include their Israeli ... Justice Ministry to review new regulations that may ban Palestinians, migrants ... |
New York Daily News | Why Israel thrives, unlike its neighbors New York Daily News Before the Jews of Hungary were emancipated in the 19th century, they were not permitted to own land. By the end of the century, they were on their way to owning fully one-fifth of Hungary's large estates and were hugely successful in business and the ... Obama couldn't go to Israel What Romney Got Wrong in Israel Israel's future depends on two states |
Los Angeles Times | As most presidents, Obama hasn't gone to Israel Tampabay.com Following a trip in which he said Israel was blessed by the hand of providence, Mitt Romney is out with an ad questioning President Barack Obama's allegiance to the Jewish state. "Who shares your values?" a narrator asks as an image of Obama appears. Mitt Romney says Barack Obama rejects Jerusalem as capital of Israel New Romney Campaign Ad Slams Obama For Never Visiting Israel Mitt Romney campaign ranks Bill Clinton more pro-Israel than Barack Obama ... |
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. | Romney Sista Souljah's Israel, suggests Israeli Jews are socialists like Obama AMERICAblog (blog) Mind you, these are the same Israeli Jews who Romney was crowing about just a few days ago during his visit to Israel. You'll recall that during the trip, after embarrassing himself in London, Romney praised what he claimed was Jews' innate ability to ... Preserving volunteerism in Israel |
BUCHANAN: Agitating for an Israel-Iran war Asbury Park Press “Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind.” So wrote H.G. Wells in “What Is Coming: A ... |