Shachar Rabinovitch, age 13, wrote to retired Cambridge University professor Dr. Marsha Levine for help with a school project. The Israeli girl had questions about Dr. Levine’s field of study, the genetics of horse breeding. It was a simple and polite request from a child who shares Dr. Levine’s interest in horses and, coincidentally, her Jewish heritage. Any reasonable person would have expected an equally polite response, whether the academic researcher felt inclined to help or not. But shockingly the only reply Shachar received was full of hate. “I’ll answer your questions when there is peace and justice for Palestinians…
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Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke yesterday in honor of the 68th anniversary of the historic day which laid the foundation for the re-birth of the State of Israel. “Today is the 29th of November. Sixty-eight years ago today, on the 29th of November, the UN decided to recognize a Jewish state in the Land of Israel, a decision that advanced the establishment of the State of Israel. The next day, Jewish communities were under increasingly murderous attacks. As it was then, so it is today; we continue to fight terrorism. This terrorism has been with us for almost 100 years and…
Two young Palestinian boys aged just 12 and 13 stabbed and seriously wounded a Jewish security guard at the light rail station in Jerusalem’s northern Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood on Tuesday. One of the boys was shot and seriously wounded by his victim. The other was captured by security forces. It was the second stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. In the other incident, an Arab man attempted to stab police officers near the Old City’s Damascus Gate only to be shot and neutralized before he could draw blood. The Pisgat Ze’ev attack was reminiscent of a similar stabbing last…
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu flew to DC on Sunday night to meet with US President Obama on Monday. The visit was the first meeting between the two leaders since the controversial Iran Deal was finalized despite Israel’s intense objections. In this meeting, Netanyahu hoped to smooth over recent tensions between his country and the US. Here are the opening remarks from the start of Monday’s meeting at the White House: President Obama: “Welcome once again Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to the Oval Office. There’s no foreign leader who I’ve met with more frequently and I think that’s a testimony to…
Since the most recent wave of terrorism began in Israel a few weeks ago, the international media has failed to present even a moderately balanced view of events. This is in part due to inherent anti-Israel bias in the media, and also gullible acceptance of official Palestinian propaganda. In an attempt to set the record straight and force the international media to cover the situation more fairly, Prime Minister Netanyahu held a press conference today where he countered Palestinian lies with the truth. “The current terror campaign in Israel is a result of continuous Palestinian incitement. First, on the al-Aqsa…
Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you greetings from Jerusalem. The city in which the Jewish People’s hopes and prayers for peace for all of humanity have echoed throughout the ages. Thirty-one years ago, as Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, I stood at this podium for the first time. I spoke that day against a resolution sponsored by Iran to expel Israel from the United Nations. Then as now, the UN was obsessively hostile towards Israel, the one true democracy in the Middle East. Then as now, some sought to deny the one and only Jewish state a place among…
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the General Assembly, H.E Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Excellencies, Heads of Delegations Ladies and Gentlemen, I come before you today from Palestine, compelled to sound the alarm about the grave dangers of what is happening in Jerusalem, where extremist Israeli groups are committing repeated, systematic incursions upon Al-Aqsa Mosque, aimed at imposing a new reality and dividing Al- Haram Al-Sharif temporally, allowing extremists, under the protection of Israeli occupying forces and accompanying ministers and Knesset members, to enter the Mosque at…
Israeli customs officials prevented a huge shipment of weapon-making materials from falling into the hands of terrorists when they inspected a suspicious cargo of “paint thinner.” Closer inspection revealed 15 tons of sulfuric acid, which is banned from import to Gaza because it is a main ingredient in explosive substances such as TNT. The amount of sulfuric acid in this shipment would have been enough to create 3 tons of TNT, and produce hundreds of deadly Qassam rockets. Qassam rockets are the missile of choice for Hamas and other terrorist groups to launch into Israeli communities adjacent to Gaza. Hamas…
The international BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement against Israel is alive and well. In the last few weeks, Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik made headlines around the world when the city council voted to boycott ALL Israeli products. The largely symbolic gesture lacked the legal power to enforce the ban, and would have had little impact even if implemented. Iceland only does about $4 million in business with Israel, so the impact to Israel’s economy would have been minimal. Yet the disturbing display of animosity towards the Jewish State prompted immediate outrage. Iceland’s own national government harshly condemned the action,…
Israel knows all too well the pain of terrorism. For Americans, the tragedy of September 11, 2001 was a heartbreaking moment in history. For 14 years, Israel has stood in solidarity with America’s pain and resolution to fight the evil that spawned these terrorist attacks. Others have forgotten, but Israel will never forget. Each year on the anniversary of September 11th, Israelis hold a ceremony at the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza in Jerusalem. The bronze sculpture of a waving American flag is the only memorial outside the United States to list the names of all 2,977 lives lost in the terrorist attacks of…