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We knew that the Israelis are so involved in the conflict in the Caucasus currently , we knew that from their famous security DEBAKE site that they are involved because of the oil , the oil pipeline which can be closed in any war that can happen in the middle East because when I look to the map ,I see that this pipeline will have to cross either Syria or Iraq and Jordan to reach Israel !! Now Hass

Israeli newspapers are all over the success of the Israeli headed Koolanoo group in China with the third largest social website called 360Quan. Koolanoo, in case you were wondering, means “all of us” in Hebrew, and I believe the whole thing actually started out with a Jewish social network cloned into Chinese. How bizarre. 360Quan [...]

Today in Hizbanon: "We swear to God...to continue on your same path and not to retreat until we achieve the same stature that Allah bestowed on you," said Lebanon's longest-held prisoner in Israel, Samir Kuntar. He refered to Mughniyeh's "martyrdom." What is Kuntar talking about? Five Lebanese terrorists set free as part of a prisoner swap with Israel prayed Thursday at the

Olmert said in the government's defense that it had launched peace negotiations with both the Palestinian Authority, and Syria: "For eight or nine years there were no negotiations with them. Of course, we can drag it out for another 10 years." How many people will die in that ten years? How many Israelis will have their homes attacked in that ten years? Ehud Olmert would sign a deal wit

Israelis: Where are you going for the holiday?Israelis need to travel. Whether it is due to the size of the country or due to the novelty of seeing new places, Israelis can't be held down."I don't need to tell you, you can take a look at the statistics: A lot of Israelis travel," Ephraim Sahrel, a representative from Mazada Tours, told The Jerusalem Post.He pointed out that flights for Shavuot wer

Like most Americans, I was gripped by senses of profound shock, horror, revulsion, sadness, and rage as I watched the horror of September 11, 2001 unfolding live on my television screen. Watching the mass murder of thousands of innocent people live on television was the most upsetting experience of my life. How could any person of sound moral character not be enraged at witnessing this horrific

A few weeks ago I mentioned an interview given by an Israeli - Shani Weinstein - for Reshet Bet. Seem like Shani’s pretty active in sharing her Taiwan experience with Israelis as I keep getting email references to things she writes about her life in Taiwan. The latest is an article in the online version [...]

This past Wednesday was Israeli Independence Day, the 60th, which makes it the diamond anniversary. Naturally, Palestinians saw little reason to celebrate, and they were not alone. Over 100 prominent British Jews issued a letter proclaiming "We're Not Celebrating Israel's Anniversary." From the letter: We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the dispossession of another people from their land. We cannot celebrate the birthday of a state that even now engages in ethnic cleansing, that violates international law, that is inflicting a monstrous collective punishment on the civilian population of Gaza and that continues to deny to Palestinians their human rights and national aspirations. We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Mi

Over a month ago, my father alerted me that Reshet Bet’s Israeli Connection midnight radio show that broadcasts interviews with Israelis all over the world had an interview with an Israeli Chinese language student - Shani Weinstein - who’s living in Taipei to learn more about her life in Taiwan. I visited their website [...]

A letter that President Bush personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon four years ago has emerged as a significant obstacle to the president's efforts to forge a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians during his last year in office. Ehud Olmert, the current Israeli prime minister, said this week that Bush's letter gave the Jewish state permission to expand the West Bank settlements that it hopes to retain in a final peace deal, even though Bush's peace plan officially calls for a freeze of Israeli settlements across Palestinian territories on the West Bank. In an interview this week, Sharon's chief of staff, Dov Weissglas, said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reaffirmed this understanding in a secret agreement reached between Israel and the Un

JERUSALEM — Israel agreed Sunday to remove about 50 roadblocks in the West Bank and promised Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is visiting here, that it would upgrade checkpoints to reduce the waiting time for Palestinians who have been hampered in their efforts to go about their daily lives. Back in November 2005, Ms. Rice, [...]

JERUSALEM, March 6 (Xinhua) — At least eight Israeli students were killed in a gun battle in Merkaz Harav yeshiva in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Jerusalem on Thursday, a spokesman of the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical services told Xinhua. The spokesman said the shooting occurred at the Merkaz Haravyeshiva [...]

It’s great seeing other Israelis doing well in Taiwan. Warms my heart. The other night, as I was meeting someone at Tainan’s “Hangout”, I picked the newest issue of +886, the Taipei based life style magazine in both Chinese and English, and noticed something familiar on the cover. I stared at it for a few [...]

Figures released by the central bank on Sunday showed that the share of new rental contracts denominated in dollars dropped in recent months, from about 68 percent in October to 62% in November, compared to about 85% of all contracts in January 2007 and 90% in 2005. The bank said homeowners were switching to shekel-linked leases due to the weakness and volatility of the dollar.Hanan Schlesinger, CEO of Anglo-Saxon real estate, told The Jerusalem Post last month that in the second half of 2007 about 75% of the agency's rental deals were fixed in shekels. "Assuming the dollar remains at current levels, I believe that within a year nearly all rental contracts will be denominated in the local currency," Schlesinger said.

Israelis across the country today protested Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's attendance at tomorrow's U.S.-sponsored Annapolis summit, blasting the Israeli leader for his expressed willingness to evacuate strategic territory, including possibly swaths of Jerusalem.

Condi Rice continues to show why she's not a credible politician, by conning people assembled at UJC in Nashville. And the biggest mistake she made in her speech is that: ...she misrepresented public opinion polls, asserting that "almost all" Israelis support unilateral withdrawals from Judea and Samaria, and handovers of territory to the Palestinian Authority, when in fact the opposite is the

In the run-up to peace negotiations in Annapolis later this month, Israelis continue to expand their settlements in the West Bank, an obvious sign of the good faith that will guarantee success of the talks. According to Peace Now there is continuing construction in 88 out of about 150 of the authorised settlements, in addition to the building of permanent structures in 34 unauthorised settlement outposts. What do settler leaders say about this? They express their pleasure about Peace Now’s report, thanking it for “documenting their endeavour.” But look on the bright side. When transfer does occur, inevitably, the Israeli homes constructed in the West Bank can be the quid pro quo for the homes stolen during the expulsion. The story is here: West Bank Settlements ‘Expanding’

Forbes named Israelis Yitzhak Tshuva, Lev Leviev and Shari Arison among the 20 richest billionaires in the Middle East. Business tycoons Stef Wertheimer (ranked 10th), brothers Yuli Sami Ofer (14) and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan (20) were also included in the list, which was published by the American magazine on Friday. Arison, Bank Hapoalim's controlling shareholder, was the only woman on the list at the 11th spot. Tshuva, who bought Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in 2005 for $675 million, was ranked 13th, while diamond mogul Leviev, who paid a reported $525 million for the historic New York Times building in April, was ranked 12th.

They're not pleased that an Egyptian actor did some work in Tunisia with an Israeli one: The chairman of Egypt's Actors' Union said Thursday that the group planned to investigate one of the country's brightest young movie stars for appearing in an upcoming miniseries with an Israeli actor. The controversy began when the group discovered that Amr Waked, who starred in the Hollywood film "Syriana,

This was originally intended as a response to this post by Bozwell, but I thought it would make a good stand-alone op/ed piece. What intrigues me about the whole Palestine as "confiscated land" mantra is that it was a multi-lateral decision to do so; one of the first (if not the first) mandates of the then-newly formed UN. Prior to Palestinian land being Israeli land, it belonged to the British who wrested it from the Ottoman Turks in the aftermath of WWI. Today's Palestinians always speak of "their land" when it never was a sovereign nation. It was always owned by somebody else, and the people who call themselves Palestinians were the subjects of those foreign occupiers. And here's the big rub: The Palestinians for over a thousand years never seemed to care. It's only when that land was allocated to the Jews that they got their kababs in a twist. And to be certain, if the Palestinians had tried with the Turks the same militant terror tactics they now use in an attempt to establish

Aus Wut über die regelmäßigen Raketenangriffe aus dem Gazastreifen haben Bewohner der südisraelischen Stadt Sderot nun Selbstjustiz geübt. Sie schossen mit Tomaten und Eiern zurück. Die verderbliche Munition wurde mit Raketenwerfern der Marke Eigenbau auf den Gazastreifen abfeuert. "Da die Regierung nichts tut, haben wir uns entschieden, die Sache selbst in die Hand zu nehmen", sagte Jigal Tsur, einer der Initiatoren der Protestaktion.Die Tomaten und Eier erreichten zwar das Palästinensergebiet, gingen aber nicht wie gewünscht über dem Ort Beit Hanun nieder. So richteten die Bio-Geschosse keinerlei Schaden an. Die israelische Armee schritt dennoch ein, um der ungewöhnlichen Aktion ein Ende zu machen. Im südisraelischen Sderot gehen immer wieder Raketen nieder, die aus dem Gazastreifen abgeschossen werden. Binnen sechs Jahren starben neun Israelis durch Raketen aus dem Gazastreifen.Quelle: tagesspiegel.deMal eine andere Form der Terrorbekämpfung :-)

Schon die Herkunft des Point & Click Adventures Adam Syndrome überrascht, denn Neuigkeiten von Spielen aus Israel, bekommt man eher selten zu sehen. Diese Tatsache möchten die jungen Entwickler von Dark Motif aus Tel Aviv nun mit ihrem Erstlingswerk ändern. Adam Syndrome soll frischen Wind in das Adventure-Genre bringen. So lässt man den genre-typischen Humor mal komplett außen vor und sorgt stattdessen für eine eher düstere, getrübte Stimmung. Der Spieler schlüpft dabei in die Rolle von Professor Adam Reed, der eine Reihe unerklärlicher Ereignisse untersuchen möchte, zu denen auch der Tod seiner Frau gehört, und gerät in Folge dessen mitten in eine große Verschwörung.Dieses Adventure, der etwas anderen Art, ist für das 3. Quartal 2008 angekündigt.Quelle: winsoftware.de

Israel's real estate developers snap up Israel’s few remaining open spaces and transform them into apartments, roads and office buildings while the government planning boards responsible for land management authorize wide-ranging construction projects with alarmingly short-term vision, all in exchange for easy money. Even the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, a national treasure, are now blocked from view by a new mall that has gone up right outside the Jaffa Gate.

Gaza, April 16 (Xinhua) Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement Monday urged its members to kidnap Israelis to swap them for Palestinian prisoners. “This is an open call for all our fighters to focus on kidnapping Israeli soldiers and civilians,” al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said in a statement to press. The statement held the “Israeli enemy” responsible for the failure of the release the Palestinian prisoners. Israel holds more than 10,000 Palestinians in jails and is expected to release some 1,300 of them as part of a prisoner exchange deal with captors of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit. Meanwhile, Fatah has criticized Shalit’s captors, including a military offshoot of Hamas, for not including a senior Fatah official on a list of prisoners they wanted to be freed which they delivered recently to Israel.

This is the problem with allowing Arabs to be part of a Jewish state and giving them the right to vote.   Ynet via LGF A Haifa University study showed that 49.7 percent of Israeli Arabs justify the kidnapping of soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev by Hizbullah. The study also showed that... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

Who didn’t see this happening…the money Israel unfroze went to Hamas. Haaretz A Hamas source said Tuesday that part of the $100 million in tax revenues transferred by Israel to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas went to pay security services, including members of a Hamas-led... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

This is a very big problem. Ynet Thirty-six percent of Israelis would ‘not mind at all’ if one of their children were to marry a non-Jewish immigrant. It is enough that they are now Israeli, they said. The survey, conducted by Ynet and the Gesher organization, found that 31 percent of... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]