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PIC MOMENT: U.N. stunned, Palestinian delegates in shock, as UN Watch brings surprise guest speaker—Palestinian Mosab Hassan Yousef—to expose PLO lies. Watch heads turn & eyes bulge!

Michal Salomon, the wife of Elad Salomon, one of those murdered in the horrific terror attack in Neve Tzuf (Halamish) on Friday night, recounted the terrifying moments when her husband, his sister Haya, and their father, Yosef, were murdered. Michal and Elad had come with their 5 children to Neve Tzuf to spend Shabbat (the Sabbath) with Elad’s parents, Tova and Yosef, who were celebrating the birth of a new grandson with family and friends from the community. While most of the people remained in the kitchen at the end of the Shabbat meal, Michal had moved to the living...

State Department condemns Jaffa attack in which American tourist was killed. Victim identified as Taylor Allen Force. The United States on Tuesday condemned the shooting and stabbing spree in Yafo (Jaffa) that killed an American tourist and left 12 people wounded. "The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today's outrageous terrorist attacks in Jaffa, Petah Tikvah, and Jerusalem, which tragically claimed the life of U.S. citizen Taylor Allen Force and left many others severely injured," State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement quoted by AFP. According to the report, the slain American, Taylor Force, a 29-year-old...

Now is the time, when the tanks are still booming and half the country is living in bomb shelters, to shout at the top of our lungs: We told you so, we told you so, we told you so!!! We take no joy in this, but we hope that now that the foolishness of your policies are clear to everyone, we can bring the country back to some sort of responsible strategy – now, before the various spin masters return to play their games with Israeli society. We must deal only with strategic alternatives to the current chaos. The question...

Mandela: Arafat was 'outstanding freedom fighter' By Haaretz Service and Agencies World leaders marked the death Thursday of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat with a mixture of praise for his dedication to the Palestinian cause and regret for his failure to realize the dream of statehood for his people.

Media Monitor Out Of The Woodwork By Jason Maoz Senior Editor As we noted last week, a pro-Palestinian website urged a mass protest of an opinion piece by Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder that appeared in the Jan. 31 issue of The Jewish Press. All Mason and Felder had suggested in their article was that perhaps it was time for Israel to consider mass expulsion of Palestinians as a practical means of dealing with the unending terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. That was enough, however, to send the anti-Israel brigade scurrying to their computers to type out their vicious little...

That a majority of Arabs, and especially Palestinians, want the destruction of Israel is something we assume and intuit. It is therefore unsurprising to have this assumption confirmed by the results of a major opinion poll released on June 11. The poll, by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (JMCC), highlighted a radicalization of views as we near the third year of unabated Israeli-Palestinian violence. The JMCC interviewed 1,179 people in the West Bank and Gaza in late May and early June. Fifty-one percent of people surveyed said the end result of the uprising should be "liberation of all of...

The irony of being human: deep down we're still animalsJoshua GreeneSyndicated ColumnistWhat would it be like to strap on explosives and pull the ripcord? Explosives are different than parachutes. Sky jumpers say that a minute of free fall, that bit of pure acceleration, that sheer sensory overload, is a whole lot longer than a minute.  Think about how fast you'd be moving and how slow it would feel if you donned a dozen sticks of TNT, walked into a night club and exploded. To be honest with you, I don't like this fad. There are  too many people doing it...