Background: On March 14 the Special Prosecutor of the Turkish High Constitutional Court, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, accused the AKP, Turkey’s Islamic (and West friendly) party of being the center of anti-secular activities, and ordered the party to be shut down and its elected members, including Prime Minister Erdogan, to step down from office. This is not [...]

Something a little more happy and positive… This visit was protested by anti-Israel activists in Germany and elsewhere, but that is normal.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Israel on Sunday to cement ties with the Jewish state nearly 60 years after its creation following World War II and the Nazi Holocaust.
“Sixty [...]

Following is an English translation of a speech that Dutch politician Geert Wilder gave in the Dutch Parliament, discussing Islam in the Netherlands.
Mr. Wilder is considered by many to be racist and anti-semitic, although he has supporters among Dutch Jews. In this particular speech there is no anti-semitism. I don’t know enough about him to [...]

This Thursday, March 20. on the Fast of Esther, go to Together4Israel.org and login. 3 PM Mountain Time. Speakers, worldwide rallies, and more.Download a full size poster (pdf)

By Ted Belman, in Israpundit
(Image from Vanity Fair)
Israel should release most of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by them as part of a plan. I say most because the worst ones, I.e. those with “blood on their hands”, must be kept to make a point, namely, that murderers must be held accountable.
So what’s the plan? [...]

Memri
Introduction
In recent months, Iran has been making efforts to renew diplomatic relations with Egypt. Relations between the two countries were cut off in 1981 by the founder of Iran’s Islamic regime Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in protest against Egypt’s peace agreement with Israel, and following Egypt’s granting of political asylum to the deposed Shah.
The initiative to [...]

The articles below shed more light on the political meaning of the Yeshivat Harav murders. The murder was carried out by an Israeli Arab of Jerusalem, and arranged through Iran, Syria, Hizbulla and Hamas in Syria. Simultaneously Israeli Arabs and Palestinian Arabs in Gaza, the Shomron and Judea have greatly increased their attacks on Israeli [...]

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, Jerusalem Post
Jordanian security forces have prevented relatives of Ala Abu Dhaim, the man who carried out the terrorist attack in Jerusalem last Thursday, from publicly mourning him.

The relatives, who live near Amman, tried Friday to erect a large tent to receive mourners, but were ordered by Jordanian security officers to dismantle [...]

Before dawn on Monday morning, Ehud Olmert rushed back to Israel from a meeting with US Secretary of State Rice in Tokyo and ordered the Gaza offensive stopped in mid-stride, while missile strikes on Sderot, Ashkelon and surrounding communities continued. Hamas is using Grads and Katyushas to bombard Israeli towns, the weapons supplied to them [...]

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By Robert Kellner
My grandfather, August Friedrich Kellner, was a local court official in Germany during WWII. He was the chief justice inspector in the district court in Laubach, a small town in the Vogelsberg mountains north of Frankfurt. He spoke out against the Nazis and in March 1940 was called to account for [...]

Egypt’s intelligence minister Omar Suleiman canceled his visit to Israel because of expectations of increased of cross-border violence between Israel and Gaza.

This warning could also be due to impending attacks on Israel by Hizbullah, following increased Arab agression against Israel from Gaza, the Shomron and Judah, and the Grad missile attack on Ashkelon on Friday. Israel counter attacked heavily, killing many terrorists, but so far not enough, considering that the Arabs are still attacking Israel.
(IsraelNN.com) Kuwaiti [...]