For the first time in years, Israelis will hold a large scale rally against United States policies towards Israel, Arutz 7 reports.
The protest will be held in downtown Jerusalem, on Agron St. on Monday evening, and is being organized by the Residents Committees of Binyamin and Samaria, as well as the nationalist umbrella organization Mateh Maamatz, the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and Komemiyut.
Knesset Members and others representing various parties, including the Likud, will speak.
“Not …

Israel has agreed to reduce its military presence in four PA-controlled towns, including Ramallah and Bethlehem, raising concern that terrorists will fill the security vacuum, Arutz Sheva reports.
In yet another gesture towards the Palestinian Authority, senior IDF officials have informed their PA counterparts that they would “reduce to a minimum” the army’s presence in four towns: Qalkilya, Ramallah, Jericho and Bethlehem. PA forces are expected to assume greater responsibility for security issues in these towns …

Israel approves the construction of 300 homes at Talmon village in Judea, 60 of which are already built.
The Army radio said that 60 of the 300 homes slated for Talmon village have already been built, and Defence Minister Ehud Barak approved plans to construct another 240 homes there, the Telegraph reports.
The village of Talmon is situated northwest from Israel’s capital Jerusalem and east-northeast from Modi’in.
US President Barack Obama has pressed Israel to halt building activity …

President of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein said in an interview to Newsmax that President Barack Obama “may become the most hostile president to Israel ever”.
Obama’s refusal to take a stand on protests in Iran stands in sharp contrast to demands he has made on Israel, Klein said.
“I think he should take a strong stand to support the protesters in Iran who want to transform that society into one that promotes democracy and …

Dutch Member of Parliament, freedom fighter and a friend of Israel, Geert Wilders said in an interview to Ha’aretz that he is concerned about Israel’s situation because of the positions of US President Barack Obama.
Wilders told the newspaper that Obama’s speech in Cairo shocked him.
“Until now Israel could rely on the U.S. for support even when the Europeans failed to offer it. Now Israel will have a tougher time,” he said.

Geert Wilders. Image via Wikipedia

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Both Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and terror organisation Hamas dismissed the speech delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas said it’s a “racist” attempt to deny Palestinian national rights, and according to PA, it “sabotages” regional peace efforts.
Hamas said that Netanyahu wants to recognize “Palestine as pure Jewish land, denying the Palestinian people any rights to their land”, according to Ha’aretz.
“Netanyahu attempted to play with words in order to mislead people, claiming he wants peace. …

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today delivered his much-anticipated foreign policy speech, where he said that a Palestinian state can be born only if they recognize Israel as a Jewish state and if Jerusalem will remain united under Israel’s sovereignty.
Netanyahu said in his speech at Bar Ilan University that the “root of the struggle is the refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish state”.
“The Initial Arab refusal was to a Jewish state in any location, …

Foreign Office,
November 2nd, 1917.
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall …

Everyone in Israel sees it. Every friend of Israel abroad sees it. Only Olmert himself doesn’t.
U.S. President George Bush believes that Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week.
After Olmert updated Bush on Israel’s indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the U.S. president demanded, “Why do you want to give Assad the Golan for …

As predicted for long already, centre-right Israeli party Likud is on path to winning the general election next spring.
Yedioth Ahronoth poll gives Likud 32 seats, Kadima 26, Shas 11, Yisrael Beitenu nine, Labour just eight, Meretz seven and newly formed Habayit Hayehudi six seats in 120 seat Knesset.
Radio Ma’agar Mohot poll gives Likud 34 seats and Kadima as little as 23 seats, Ha’aretz poll gives Likud also 34 and Kadima 28 seats.
A ruling coalition has …

No wonder most of Israeli-Americans voted for John McCain the last US Presidential election. Despite of the fact that both candidates pledged their support to Israel, and despite of the fact that the President-elect Barack Obama chose a supporter of Israel, Rahm Emanuel for his Chief of Staff, the plan Obama has come up with regarding his future efforts in Middle-East is really something no Zionist, no Israeli, and no Jew can really accept.
According to …