Photo: Beduin School Girl looks out the window of her classroom at the Al-Khan al-Ahmar school, near the West Bank city of Jericho.Photo Credit: REUTERS
Now I don’t want to ruin anyone’s vacation, but the next time you are heading for some R&R at the Dead Sea via Jerusalem, pay close attention to the scenery on the sides of the road.
On today’s Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, Josh airs the audio from a lecture he attended last week delivered by Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum. Pipes has started a movement called the ‘Israel Victory Project.’ His plan is for Israel to declare victory by convincing the Arabs of Judea and Samaria that they have lost; and they must recognize the Jewish state of Israel in order for progress to take place.
Dear Harvard College Israel Trek 2014 – #Israeltrek2014 participants,
As you well know by now, your current trip to Israel has drawn international attention and media coverage. While a group of college students traipsing through the Jewish State is probably not worthy of such focus, your visit to Ramallah and specifically your smiley group photo at the grave of Yasser Arafat, the father of modern-day terrorism, has drawn condemnation from many (myself included).
Photo: Temple Mount area in Jerusalem. Credit: Wiki Commons
This past Sunday, I was asked to take part in an organized tour of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in all of Judaism. I accepted after embarrassingly realizing that I had not been up there in nearly three decades.
Daniel Pipes delivering his remarks at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies Nov. 27, 2018. Credit: Josh Hasten
Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, explains his “Victory” initiative, and how such an acknowledgement is crucial for Arab states (and the Jewish state) to progress economically, developmentally and globally.
I have a confession to make. And it’s not something that I am proud of. In fact, what I’m about to reveal is deeply embarrassing and leaves me bursting with guilt. Perhaps I would go so far as suggesting that I feel that I have betrayed my family, my friends, and my neighbors living in Judea and Samaria and throughout Israel.
U.S. and Israeli first responders gather around U.S. Ambassador David Friedman at an ASTI dinner and awards ceremony held in their honor. Credit: Binyamin Ben Kahlon
Several times a year, groups of Americans from various emergency agencies arrive to spend a week in classroom training and fieldwork alongside their Israeli counterparts. Then they take their new skills back home.
Mounted Israeli police scuffle with pro-settler supporters at the Amona outpost, February 1, 2006. Photo Credit: REUTERS
With the engines of the bulldozers still warm from destroying the homes of the 42 Jewish Amona families, the Knesset on Monday night passed the “Regulation Law” in its final reading. The legislation, introduced by Bayit Yehudi MK Bezalel Smotrich, seeks to provide justice for thousands of families living in homes built throughout Judea and Samaria, in addition to the rightful landowners.
I got my gun. It was an understandably painstaking bureaucratic process that I had started and stopped twice before, but this time I saw it all the way through. It took about half a year from start to finish, but here I am – my permit folded carefully in my wallet, and a brand new Glock semi-automatic on my belt.
Photo: Shrapnel blasted building in Southern Israel. Credit: Sderot Media Center
I’ve been to the Western Negev town of Sderot more times than I can count. For nearly three years from 2008-2010, I was in the beleaguered city regularly, as many as 2-3 times a week, doing PR work for the town’s Hesder Yeshiva. Therefore I am hardly a stranger to the Tzeva Adom (code red) early warning system and having to literally run for my life to the nearest shelter within 15 seconds.