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1. Sillicon Israel How Market Capitalism Saved the Jewish State

   Monday, November 9th, 2009

   By George Gilder The most precious resource in the world economy is human genius, which we may define as the ability to devise significant inventions that enhance survival and prosperity. At any one time, genius is embodied in just a few score thousand people, a creative minority that accounts for most human accomplishment and wealth. […]

2. Perceptions of Jews by Renowned Gentiles

   Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

   “The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions.” — Leo Tolstoy “It was in vain that […]

3. Why Israel is Losing the Military and Media Wars

   Monday, September 28th, 2009

   By Sultan Knish Every now and then bewildered Israeli politicians and outreach professionals call conferences to wonder why the Hasbara is failing and why Israel can’t get its story across. They are given the usual advice of hiring more PR firms, finding innovative ways to get the message through, using the internet in smarter ways […]

4. Hamas’ war crimes guilt

   Saturday, September 26th, 2009

   “For we should remind ourselves of the fact that almost all the dead were men (where were the women?) and there’s every likelihood that the males were jihadniks come to battle the Jewish enemy by providing “civilian” cover to the terrorists. They were true accomplices. Their reward was to be endless fun and games with 72 black-eyed waiting virgins.”

5. Netanyahu’s Magnificent Speech to the United Nations

   Saturday, September 26th, 2009

   Sep 24, 2009 Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen… Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on […]

6. Israel’s Legal Territorial Rights

   Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

   By Eli E. Hertz September 13, 2009 The U.S. Administration, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia are rewriting history by labeling the Territories ”˜Occupied Territoriesand the Settlements as an ”˜Obstacle to Peace and ”˜Illegitimate`. It endows these Palestinian terms with an aura of false history and bogus statehood. Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton and […]

7. Facts Are Unimportant When They Contradict Our Preconceived Opinions

   Saturday, September 12th, 2009

   “Is non-payment of rent grounds for eviction? What if the tenant is a Palestinian living in East Jerusalem?”

8. Palestinians need autonomy

   Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

   “Israel has every reason to believe in the continuation of the general de facto peace with the neighboring Arab states which, with the exception of Jordan and Egypt, are still technically at war with us.”

9. Douglas Bloomfield’s Boo-Boo Corrected

   Friday, July 24th, 2009

   “I regret your erudite contributor has this aspect wrong for that is exactly what Egypt, which gets half a billion a year less than Israel, has been doing for years. Egypt invariably vote against the US in the United Nations and has never publicly, nor I imagine privately, been intimidated for doing so.”

10. Genocidal War Aims of Arab States

    Sunday, July 5th, 2009

    “But times change and the new man in the White House is himself a man of change who has made it clear he will not follow in his predecessor`s footsteps. Witness his obstinate insistence that Israel must not lay another brick to build a new home in existing Jewish towns and villages on the West Bank. Moreover, where Bush clearly stated that the US would regard a nuclear attack on Israel as an attack on the US, Obama has ominously avoided repeating this promise in his speech to the Islamic world in Cairo recently.?

11. Absurdity of stopping settlement activity

    Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

    June 21 2009 The US demand verges on the absurd. Consider the facts of the Palestinian situation if Israel continues construction. That will require the eventual peace agreement to factor in one of these options: the settlements will become part of Israel proper; or they will be evacuated and handed over, as is, to the […]

12. “Jews have the same right to settle there as they have to settle in Haifa.”

    Friday, June 12th, 2009

    “. . .the Jews have the same right to settle there as they have to settle in Haifa.” FORMER UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE EUGENE W. ROSTOW, key author of 242. (The New Republic, October 21, 1991)