These days, the idea of Israel engaging its enemies in a war, whether in near or distant arenas, without its “silent attack force” is unthinkable.
THERE ARE two types of standard electronic warfare in most militaries: defensive and offensive. – Photo Courtesy IDF
The silent attackers would be the soldiers of the IDF’s Electronic Warfare (EW) Section, whose mission is to cause rival forces to enter a state perhaps best summed up in the famous Psalms verse: “They have eyes, but cannot see.
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Noam Chomsky, the anti-Israel Jewish linguist, was involved in the efforts to persuade Stephen Hawking from appearing in Shimon Peres‘s Presidential Conference held annually in Jerusalem.
Hawking. Health or political concerns? – Photo: AP
The British paper The Guardian reported that Noam Chomsky, together with another 20 academics, sent the renowned physicist a letter urging him not to accept the invitation and cancel his participating in the conference.
According to the report, Chomsky and 20 other academics wrote Hawking that they are very disappointed that he had accepted the invitation since “Israel systematically discriminates against the Palestinians who make up 20% of its population in ways that would be illegal in Britain.” Continue Reading »
A militant Palestinian group in Damascus said it is forming combat units to try to recapture Israeli-occupied territory, in particular the Golan Heights, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah that they would support such operations.
A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border shows a Syrian woman waking near the Syria-Israel boundary fence in the Golan Heights near the southern Syrian village of Ar Rafide, May 7, 2013.
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Most residents of northern Druze village of Majdal Shams believe that a war will break out soon. The explosion shockwaves are very well felt in the border-adjacent Druze village, in which most residents profess they are part of the Syrian people.
Majdal Shams – Photo: Google Maps
The latest alleged Israeli attack in Syria caused much controversy in the village. Some residents support the Assad regime, and see the attack as “a terrorist act”. Continue Reading »
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood staged an anti-Israel rally in Cairo on Friday, the first such protest by the main backers of President Mohammed Morsi since they rose to prominence in the wake of the country’s 2011 uprising.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. – Photo by AP
Emerging from weekly services at Al-Azhar mosque — the centuries-old seat of Sunni Muslim learning — demonstrators chanted “the people want the destruction of Israel” in protest of recent Israeli airstrikes in Syria and the detention of a Palestinian Muslim cleric. Continue Reading »
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior put out a notice on Friday, informing countries that recognize “Palestine” that radical Muslim cleric Yousef al-Qaradawi holds a “fake” Palestinian passport, according to the Ma’an news agency.
Hamas’s PM Ismail Haniyeh and Yousef al-Qaradawi – Reuters
In a letter, the ministry called on all countries to take legal action to seize the passport if it is used contrary to international law.
The passport was given to Qaradawi by Hamas’s Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, during the cleric’s visit to Gaza. Continue Reading »
Cpl Elinor Joseph, was born 1991 into a Christian family from the Arab village of Jish, and in 2010 became the first Arab woman ever to serve in a combat role in the I.D.F.
Hungarian authorities say three men have been convicted of shouting anti-Semitic slogans and making Nazi salutes at Jews attending an international meeting in Budapest.
The World Jewish Congress. – Photo by Reuters/Haaretz Archive
The Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s office said Friday that two of the men were given suspended two-year prison terms. The third man, who earlier had been given a suspended sentence for a separate crime, was sentenced to three years in prison but has appealed the decision. Continue Reading »
Egypt’s Black Bloc grew out of a struggle for liberation from an authoritarian system, only after non-violent civil efforts had failed. Not to be confused with America’s Black Bloc, which is friend to likes of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s Black Bloc is an enemy to their country’s new Islamist rulers and fights for democracy and legitimate government.
Egypt’s New Anti-Muslim Brotherhood Militia – Israel Today
Clad in black garb and ski masks, the faceless and nameless Black Bloc soldiers lock arms to create a human shield in defense of pro-freedom protesters — the Black Bloc’s number-one priority — in the streets and squares of Egypt. Continue Reading »
Despite Israel’s semiarid climate, Israel’s agricultural industry has advanced enough to prevent its desertification, which is defined as the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
Zai holes are used in Africa for farming
The impressive agricultural industry is so developed, in fact, that Israel has been placed as a world leader in agricultural technologies because of its use as the country’s main tool against desertification.
WASHINGTON — The barrage of attacks on Israel at the United Nations undercuts the quest for peace, said Susan Rice, the U.S. envoy to the body.
Susan Rice the 27th US Ambassador to the UN – 0fficial State Dept photo
“At its best, the U.N. does extraordinary things such as: keep the peace, help save untold civilians from Qaddafi in Libya, midwife the new nation of South Sudan, and empower women and girls worldwide,” Rice said Thursday at a luncheon in New York where she accepted the American Jewish Committee’s Distinguished Public Service Award. Continue Reading »
After meeting with senior Jewish leaders in Britain on Thursday, the Church of Scotland has agreed to change the wording of a controversial paper which denies Jews any special claim to the land of Israel, the Guardian reported.
The General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland, Edinburgh. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Green Lane
The paper, entitled “The Inheritance of Abraham,” rejects “claims that scripture offers any peoples a privileged claim for possession of a particular territory.” The paper further states that “reconciliation can only be possible if the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the blockade of Gaza are ended.”
Yitzhak Benhorin
As many in Israel are concerned over the possibility that the civil war raging in Syria will spill over to the Golan Heights and strengthen the standing of Hezbollah, some Israelis regard the crisis in the neighboring country from another angle entirely.
Moti Kahan – Photo: Yitzhak Benhorin
Jerusalem native Moti Kahana heads a group of Israeli businessmen and American Jews who travel to the Syrian refugee camps to provide humanitarian aid to victims of one of the era’s bloodiest conflicts. Continue Reading »
Finance Minister Yair Lapid explained Thursday night why he does not support the latest round of rallies calling to reduce the cost of living. Previous such rallies were credited with boosting his party’s showing in the elections.
“They told me that there will be a demonstration on Saturday. All I want to do is to put on a black t-shirt again, go down to the rally and say, ‘People, you’re demonstrating against yourselves,’” he told Channel 10. Continue Reading »
Israel’s Ambassador to Egypt Yaakov Amitai has been summoned by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry for clarification over “inappropriate treatment” of Egyptian diplomats in east Jerusalem over the weekend.
Chapel of St. Helen in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem – Photo: Wikipedia
The Egyptian authorities are demanding an apology from Israel after three Egyptian diplomats, including Egypt’s Deputy Ambassador to Israel Mustafa Al-Kuny, were reportedly removed from the Easter Mass service held at the Coptic Church adjacent to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in east Jerusalem on Saturday.
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