By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com
In the 1960s, Brigitte Bardot was France’s national icon, a pouty-lipped poster girl for the glories of her home country. So it is a sign of how radically times have changed that yesterday’s silver-screen darling is today’s enemy of the people.
Bardot’s “crimes,” such as they are, are straightforward: She has committed the sin [...]

By Nadia Matar
Ze’ev (Zambish) Chever, former head of the Yesha Council (Moetzet Yesha) right
The headline in Maariv, April 15, 2008: “The Quiet Evacuation. Under the nose of the extreme right, without violence, without police, the me’ahaz [outpost settlement] of Mavo Horon was evacuated last night.” The writer Roi Sahron reports in the article that Moetzet [...]

One Man’s Battle For His Jerusalem Land Continues
by Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) American oleh (immigrant to Israel) Yitzchak Herskovitz continues his legal battle against Palestinian Authority Arabs squatting on his land.
Herskovitz won a lengthy legal battle last year against the squatters in the Jerusalem Magistrates Court. Despite that, the Salah clan continues to occupy the large plot [...]

NewsMax, By: Ronald Kessler
In his speech on race, Barack Obama tried to explain away his longtime minister’s denunciations of America by saying that for blacks of his generation, memories of “humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away.”
But an examination by Newsmax of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s background reveals that Obama’s characterization [...]

by Michael Rubin
National Review Online in Middle East Forum
Few U.S. policymakers have heard of Fethullah Gülen, perhaps Turkey’s most prominent theologian and political thinker. Self-exiled for more than a decade, Gülen lives a reclusive life outside Philadelphia, Pa. Within months, however, he may be as much a household a name in the United States as [...]

Jerusalem Post Magazine
On the evening of January 24, Muhammad and Mahmoud Sbarna dressed in security-guard uniforms, armed themselves with daggers and a toy gun and set out on their mission.

Photo: A rapid response team in the West Bank. (by Ariel Jerozolimski)
From their home in Beit Omer, a village near Hebron, the two made their way [...]

Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Part I
In Caroline Glick’s article “Fear of Democracy” (Jerusalem Post, April 4), we learn that the UN’s Human Rights Counsel instructed its expert on freedom of expression to report to the Council on all instances in which individuals “abuse” their freedom of speech by giving expression to racial or religious bias. Since [...]

By Elyakim Haetzni, The Jewish Press
Complaints we have in Israel against American Jews are not directed at the various George Soroses or Noam Chomskys, or at those Jews uninterested in the fate of the Jews in the Jewish state. We address our cries to [...]

After Israel said it had taken down ten checkpoints, the Palestinian Authority said they had not been taken down, and Rice immediately berated Israel and told the government to do more, faster. Evidently Rice did not check to see if the PA claims were true or not, before lashing out at Israel. The intrepid Defense [...]

Prof. Paul Eidelberg says that the current system of government and leaders must be overthrown in Israel as quickly as possible and at any cost. I think he’s right, as far as needing to throw the bums out and make drastic reforms to the structure of government in Israel.
The reader might say, “how can [...]

(IsraelNN.com) Syria has raised the state of alert of its armed forces because it knows Hizbullah’s revenge attack against Israel for the killing of Imad Mughniyeh is near, according to Channel 2.
Soon after Mughniyeh’s death, Israel warned Syria that it would hold it responsible for any revenge attack launched by Hizbullah for the killing of [...]