On her flight back to Washington last week, US Secretary Rice told reporters that Israel's removal of several Israel Defense Force (IDF) security checkpoints in Judea and Samaria does not improve life enough for Arabs in the region.

US President George W. Bush arrives in the region next week for a 60-hour visit to ram forward his agenda of overseeing a final status peace agreement between Israel and the Arabs, but what he may find is that his mission is doomed to failure.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met again with PA/PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Monday in a session both sides claim was the most productive yet.

A senior Gaza terrorist bomb maker killed in a pinpoint Israeli military strike last week was revealed on Tuesday to have also been the headmaster of a local United Nations school.

On the eve of Israel's Independence Day the country's population stands at 7,282,000 people and 75.5% are Jewish. These numbers were presented Wednesday by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is suspected of illicitly receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from Morris (Moshe) Talansky, according to the details of an investigation currently being carried out against him.

With Hamas running Gaza on Israel's southwest border, Fatah attempting to take over Judea and Samaria in eastern Israel, Iranian-backed Hizb'Allah terrorists and allied pro-Syrian forces are fighting the Lebanese army - and have taken over parts of Beirut.

Jimmy Kedoshim, 48, killed by a mortar shell from Gaza. He had stepped out of his house in Kibbutz Kfar Azza to work in the garden when he took a direct hit from a mortar shell Friday night.

The next time someone tells you that Israel is blocking supplies into Gaza, just read this list to them.
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We know that that the light of Hebron, the light of Avraham Avinu, the light of Eretz Yisrael, cannot and never will be doused, not by politicians, not by police and not by bullets. Nothing can destroy the eternal flame of the Jewish people, certainly not the everlasting glow of the holy city of Hebron.
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Emanuel A. Winston writes, "Israel and the Jews have been pursued and persecuted for decades and centuries. The Jewish people owe the world's nations absolutely nothing, except our ultimatum: we will give you peace for peace, nothing more."
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During the 1967 Six Day War, was the United States at war, too? And whose side was the U.S. on? This analysis provides a look at some interesting facts about the United States' involvement in the Six Day War.
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A regularly updated list of one-sided, anti-Israel resolutions expected to be adopted by the General Assembly in its current 61st session.  [more ...]

Click here to learn how you can help the Jewish refugees rebuild their lives! [offsite]

The Israel Antiquities Authority has installed cameras at the Mugrabi Gate Reconstruction Project in the Old City of Jerusalem. You can view the site live from Jerusalem 24 hours a day. (The link will open the Windows Media Player.)

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