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Hagel: U.S. Committed To Israel's Military Superiority

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 04.23.2013 | World

TEL AVIV, Israel — U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel assured Israel on Monday that the Obama administration is committed to preserving and impr...

PHOTO: Sniper Condemned For Posting Photo Of Child In Crosshairs

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 02.18.2013 | World

A photo posted to the Instagram account of Mor Ostrovski, a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has drawn outrage and condemnation across the ...

Israeli Women Soldiers Have 'Right Stuff' For Border Watch

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2013 | World

By Dan Williams ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN BORDER, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Breaking cover from a lookout point disguised as a dune, four soldiers sto...

Stevie Wonder Cancels Concert Benefiting IDF

AP | Posted 01.31.2013 | Entertainment

WASHINGTON — Stevie Wonder is calling off a concert for a group that raises money for the Israeli military. Wonder had been scheduled to perfor...

Joshua Hersh

Dem Breaks Solid U.S. Backing For Israel With Call For Restraint

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 11.17.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat often a rare voice of anti-war dissent even in his own caucus, is calling for Israelis and Pale...

Israel Will Stop Assault On Gaza During Egyptian PM's Visit

Reuters | Posted 01.15.2013 | World

JERUSALEM, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Israel will stop its offensive action in the Gaza Strip during a three-hour visit by the Egyptian prime minister to th...

Israel Publicizes Killing Of Hamas Military Chief On Twitter, YouTube

The Huffington Post | Adam Goldberg | Posted 11.14.2012 | World

The Israel Defense Forces have taken to Twitter and YouTube to publicize Wednesday's killing of Hamas military chief Ahmad Jabari. The militant lea...

Israel's Secret Staging Ground

Foreign Policy | MARK PERRY | Posted 03.29.2012 | World

In 2009, the deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Donald Lu, sent a cable to the State Department's headquarters in Foggy Bottom title...

Israel Successfully Tests Missile Defense System

AP | Posted 04.11.2012 | World

JERUSALEM -- Israel says it has successfully tested an upgraded radar for the Arrow missile defense system, developed with the United States and desig...

Donations From Casino Owner Could Embarrass GOP Candidates

Reuters | Peter Henderson and James Pomfret | Posted 04.09.2012 | Politics

SAN FRANCISCO/MACAU, China, Feb 8 (Reuters) - It's never good for the candidate when a big donor runs afoul of the law - as President Barack Obama le...

Cain's Mounting Problems With Mountains in Iran

Dorian de Wind | Posted 01.23.2012 | Politics
Dorian de Wind

Mountains have never kept our military from doing their job. But here comes Herman Cain, on at least two occasions in the year 2011, claiming that the mountains in Iran would "make it very difficult" to launch a military strike.

Israel Holds On To $100 Million In Palestinian Taxes

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 01.14.2012 | World

JERUSALEM — Israeli Cabinet ministers decided Monday to hold on to some $100 million in taxes owed to the Palestinians, an official said, despit...

Escaping the Israel Ghetto

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 09.24.2011 | World
Alon Ben-Meir

Israel today is more isolated than ever before in the international arena, with friends and allies dwindling amidst a growth of delegitimizing efforts and rising anti-Semitism globally. It should be no surprise that many Israelis want out.

Center Provides Home Away From Home For Expat Jewish Soldiers

Posted 06.16.2011 | Religion

By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) When Passover begins on Monday (April 18) at sundown, Roxanne Fogelman, a 22-year-old Isra...

Anti-Zionists Plumb New Depths: Cliona Campbell's Story

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Ben S. Cohen

Cliona Campbell is a 19-year old student from Cork, in Ireland. But right now, Cliona lives in fear. And all this because Cliona spent a couple of months in Israel as a volunteer for the IDF.

Insecurity Council

Ami Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Ami Horowitz

Hezbollah, widely known as the most lethal terrorist group operating today has a de facto seat on the Security Council. The mechanism which allowed this super-terrorist organization a seat, was the election of Lebanon to the Security Council.

Settler, Warrior, Healer

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
David Suissa

Ron Jager looks the part of the diehard Zionist from the Bronx, where, in fact, he grew up. So how did this tough guy turn out to be a "kumbaya" promoter of Jewish-Palestinian cooperation in, of all places, the West Bank?

A Guide Through Israel's No-One Land

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Michael Winship

That oh-so-relevant question of the right balance between wisdom and force is posed in one of a series of essays written by Henry Ralph Carse, a theologian and scholar living in Jerusalem.

IDF Explanation

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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In Defense of Israel

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Andy Ostroy

There is no quick fix in the Mideast. And as demonstrated by the world's swift, harsh and uniform condemnation of Israel's actions Monday, Israel and it's people are once again alone in this not-very-Jew-friendly world.

IDF, USA

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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Jew vs. Jew? Protests, Threats Reach Fever Pitch over Israel

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

This week, New York City's Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.

Glaring Omissions in Goldstone Report

State Rep. Julie Hamos | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
State Rep. Julie Hamos

Where is the repudiation of Hamas' refusal to recognize the State of Israel? How can Israel negotiate for a two-state solution when one Palestinian partner is bent on its destruction?

Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sharmine Narwani

Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.

Israel Drops Gaza Probe, Calls Claims Hearsay

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Israel has officially ended its investigative probe into any possible misconduct by Israeli troops during the Gaza incursion known as Operation Cast L...