‘If we cannot name our enemy, how can we ever expect to defeat it?’  

by Damian Pachter, ISRAEL HAYOM

Speaking with Israel Hayom, Steve Emerson describes how he tried to warn the US government about the threat of Islamic terrorism in the runup to 9/11, only to be rebuffed.

Steven Emerson is considered one of the most esteemed experts on Islamic Jihad. As early as 1992, he sounded the alarm that a major attack on US soil was just a matter of time, but no one seemed to care. Speaking with Israel Hayom, he has vivid memories of 9/11, as if it happened yesterday.

Unlike most Americans who were shocked by the horrific events, he was not surprised. In fact, about a month before the attack he predicted that something big was imminent, but again, to no avail.

Read more…

September 14, 2021 | 9:24 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Wokeness: An Evil of Our Age  

Even the Chinese apparat could not invent a more evil, more macabre way to destroy the United States.

By

History is replete with examples of nations, successful and not-so-successful alike, that abruptly committed suicide.

The ancient polis of Corcyra devoured itself in a bloody conflict as a collective madness took hold of the island city-state during the Peloponnesian War.

The Jacobins in 1793 hijacked the French Revolution and turned a movement toward a constitutional republic into a totalitarian, year-zero effort to destroy the past and ensure equity for all—or else. The Reign of Terror—and eventually Napoleon—followed.

Read more…

September 13, 2021 | 12:22 pm | 5 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Courts Will Rule Against Biden on Vaccine Mandate Penalties: Alan Dershowitz  

BY Jack Phillips, EPOCH TIMES September 12, 2021

Courts will likely agree that the federal government has the authority to enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates but will argue that the rules and penalties cannot be enforced, said Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.

President Joe Biden last week said that he will direct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to mandate that employees at companies with 100 or more workers will have to either submit to weekly testing or get the COVID-19 vaccine. White House officials have said that fines will be handed down to those who don’t comply with the rule, which will impact about 80 million private-sector employees.
Read more…

September 13, 2021 | 11:52 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

What Should the World Expect of Gifting Afghanistan to Fundamentalists?  

by Hamid Bahrami, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  September 13, 2021

  • The Taliban, by trying to introduce themselves as “moderate,” also appear to be playing “good cop, bad cop” regarding the IS, presumably to get international support and recognition. The West should be skeptical. As long as the Taliban and other terror groups, whether Shi’ite or Sunni, have not changed ideologically, they will remain a significant threat to the US and the Free World.
  • Read more…
September 13, 2021 | 11:46 am | 2 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Why Does Israel Only Play Defense?  

By Victor Rosenthal

Since 1967 the amount of territory under Israeli control has shrunk significantly. At the same time, the threats to the security of Israelis have increased. Terrorism waxes and wanes, but never goes away. Although there are “peace treaties” (actually long-term cease-fire agreements) with Egypt and Jordan, the enmity of the Palestinian Arabs has only deepened. Hamas continues to threaten the inhabitants of southern Israel with rockets, mortar shells, attempts at infiltration, incendiary balloons, and recently machine-gun fire.

Israel’s control of Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley, which are essential to the defense of the state, has weakened over time: areas A and B are no-go zones for Jews, and Arab construction in Area C is proliferating. Even within pre-1967 Israel, parts of the Galilee and the Negev are slipping from Israeli control. There are new existential threats that are on the verge of becoming actual: the Iranian nuclear project, and the deployment of precision-guided rockets and drones in the hands of Hezbollah and Hamas.
Read more…

September 13, 2021 | 8:12 am | 3 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Bennett: ‘Our tolerance for the unvaccinated has run out’  

PM discusses new COVID-related plans, including genetic scanning mechanism at Ben Gurion airport to help deal with ‘the next variant.’

Arutz Sheva Staff , Sep 12 , 2021 

At a government discussion on Sunday on COVID-19, ministers unanimously approved the proposal to broaden the “Green Class” outline to the entire educational system, Channel 12 reported.

“Regarding the education system – we will adopt the model,” added Bennett, adding that after the holidays mass tests would be carried out in the education system.

“This time the distribution will not be through the school but in an alternative logistical way and parents will write a note.”

Read more…

September 13, 2021 | 7:44 am | 10 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

On Abraham Accords Anniversary, Biden Is Tepid About Middle East Peace  

A historic breakthrough has been dragged into partisan politics.

By Jonathan H. Ferziger, a Jerusalem-based nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former Middle East correspondent for Bloomberg News. FOREIGN POLICY   SEPTEMBER 10, 2021, 1:32 PM

By neglecting to take ownership of the Abraham Accords and mumbling only faint praise for Israel’s new ties with former Arab adversaries, U.S. President Joe Biden is helping drag Arab-Israeli peace—the rock of bipartisan Middle East policy—into partisan politics. Next week is the one-year anniversary of the historic peace deal between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates, but the White House has left it to the Republicans to celebrate the occasion. One year after then-U.S. President Donald Trump brought officials from the three countries to a signing ceremony on the White House lawn, his former Middle East team is leading the celebration of its diplomatic breakthrough with a possible eye toward the 2024 elections.

Read more…

September 13, 2021 | 1:35 am | 4 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Why Bennett Could Usher in a One-state Solution  

By Jack Khoury, HAARETZ    

Since taking office in June, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced at every opportunity that “There will be no diplomatic process with the Palestinians.” The goal is to improve their socioeconomic situation, a development he believes will bring stability and reduce violence. There will be no discussion of national rights, of borders, of the issue of Jerusalem, and certainly not of the right of return.

Israel will continue to control the land, airspace, water resources, and the Palestinian population registry. That is the reality to which the Palestinians – in the West Bank and to some extent also in the Gaza Strip – must accustom themselves. Anyone who dares to resist will pay for it, but if the Palestinians behave, they will get access to 4G internet. If they step up the security coordination with Israel and keep Gaza quiet, they’ll even receive economic compensation. In short: Eat, drink, and be merry (in your own cities) – but forget your dreams of statehood.

Read more…

September 13, 2021 | 1:19 am | 4 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

‘The Greatest Existential Threat to America’  

By David Horowitz, FPM

Our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin – a leader who presided over the worst, most incompetent, most humilitating military defeat in the history of our nation – is black. Of course, he’s black. He was appointed by Biden to display the wonderful diversity of the most progressive president in history. He wasn’t chosen because he was a brilliant military leader (obviously). He was chosen because he was a political hack ready and willing to embrace even the most suicidal left-wing policies. (Note: Left-wing policies are by their very nature suicidal because the defining characteristic of the left is that it hates America and wants to “dismantle” it and replace it with the left-wing fantasy of a socially just future.)
Read more…

September 12, 2021 | 12:23 pm | 5 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Afghan men as old as 60 are bringing child brides as young as 12 to the US  

Evacuated underage girls tell border officials they have been raped and forced into marriage to escape the Taliban, damning report states

By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter and Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com, 9 September 2021

  • Customs and Border Protection is investigating reports of child brides among Afghan refugees in an Abu Dhabi staging area and Fort McCoy, Wisconsin
  • An unnamed official blamed it on the ‘reality’ that the vetting process ‘sucks’
  • A leaked internal memo reveals Afghan girls told officials they were raped by much older men they were rescued with at the Abu Dhabi staging area
  • Read more…

September 12, 2021 | 11:06 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

The Old Peace Treaties vs. the Abraham Accords  

By September 12, 2021


President Bill Clinton watches King Hussein and PM Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands, October 1994, image via Israel GPO

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Unlike Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the Abraham Accords involved Arab countries that do not border Israel, have never fought it on the battlefield, and are relatively unburdened by the Palestinian question. Accordingly, they were able to implement a “people to people” peace that eluded their predecessors.

The search for a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israel and its neighbors reached a critical juncture in 1979 when Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli PM Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Fourteen years later, in September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Agreements (DOP) after secret talks in Oslo, and in October 1994 a Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty was signed. In the subsequent two-and-a-half decades, no new Arab-Israeli agreements were signed until the conclusion in August 2020 of the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain, followed a month later by normalization agreements between the Jewish state, Sudan, and Morocco.

Read more…

September 12, 2021 | 10:22 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

What the White House is now doing puts every American in danger  

 

The White House is run today by Obama insiders who are back in power. They are more experienced in one thing than anything else. They know how to organize a movement of people around ideas. This is very powerful. They also understand that the key to organizing people around ideas is to control the information. And they understand well that Facebook has more control over information than any other source today. Therefore, the White House and Facebook have begun to control the information flow from Facebook. This is indeed frightening.

Read more…

September 12, 2021 | 9:51 am | 1 Comment »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Exhausted, out of food: How 4 fugitives were caught, with help of Arab Israelis  

Reports to cops by local residents who encountered the escapees were instrumental in their capture; trackers following discarded items and footprints in the dirt did the rest

TOI

Five days into a national manhunt for six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from a high-security jail in northern Israel, police captured two of the fugitives in Nazareth Friday night. Hours later, two others — including notorious terror commander Zakaria Zubeidi — were apprehended in the nearby town of Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam.

In both cases, Arab Israelis who encountered the fugitives reported them to authorities, aiding in their capture. Police sources told Walla news that dozens of Arabs phoned in reports in recent days.

The fugitives had managed to avoid capture since breaking out of Gilboa Prison early Monday.

Read more…

September 12, 2021 | 7:47 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Iconic photographs of 9/11  

Tierney’s Real News (9/11/21)

The Falling Man

At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky—falling through time as well as through space. People on the ground were gasping because people in the building were jumping.

He started shooting pictures through a 200mm lens. He was standing between a cop and an emergency technician, and each time one of them cried, “There goes another,” his camera found a falling body and followed it down for a nine- or twelve-shot sequence.

CONTINUE

September 12, 2021 | 1:21 am | Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Beyond Iran, the US and Israel Must Work Together to Counter China  

America should help Israel develop mechanisms for reviewing both inbound investments and outbound commerce to counter Chinese influence, argue three experts from JINSA.

By   ,  and ,
September 09, 2021 at 2:23 PM

While top Israeli officials focus their attention on the future of the Iran nuclear deal, another, more subtle threat emanating from much farther east than Tehran is growing in the region, according to Vice Admiral (ret.) John Bird, Erielle Davidson and Ari Cicurel of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Israel and the US must check the ambitions of Beijing, they argue below, and with an unusual weapon: oversight.

When President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met last week, US attempts at reviving the Iran nuclear deal topped the agenda – and it was clear the two leaders still do not see eye to eye. But beyond Tehran, there’s another area of growing geopolitical concern that could offer an opportunity for mutually beneficial, and much needed, cooperation between the U.S. and its Middle Eastern ally: countering China’s activity in the region and inside Israel itself. To address the security challenges posed by Beijing, Washington and Jerusalem should and must work together, economically.

Read more…

September 11, 2021 | 4:09 pm | 4 Comments »

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free

Subscribe to Israpundit Daily Digest for Free
« Previous Page — Next Page »