Negative views of Israel are around 52% around the world. Europeans are about as anti-Semitic as Muslims: whopping 64% of Germans hate Israel, and the corresponding figure for United Arab Emirates is 58%. Russia shows a low anti-Israeli sentiment of “only” 33%, explained by the Russian dislike of Muslims and little concern with the purported Israeli “atrocities.”
Anti-Israeli sentiment, of course, is a politically correct term for anti-Semitism.

Following on Ehud Barak’s promises to Rice, the IDF dismantled the roadblock near Taiba village. The previous time when that roadblock was left unmanned, Palestinians shot a Jewish woman there in 2002 after which the roadblock was immediately reinstated.

from Arab countries, suggests to include their issues into the final status negotiations with the Palestinians. Why did it took the US 60 years to notice 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries who left billions of dollars worth of property behind? The US is much quicker to champion the rights of Arab refugees from Israel.

The Supreme Rabbinical Court handed down this decision on a divorce case, banned Jews to use Israeli civil courts as lacking any authority on Jewish matters. In Rabbi Kahane’s pun, “You cannot get any lower than Israeli High Court.”

Iran installed high-end antennas in Syria to intercept all radio communications in Israel. Top IDF officers no longer use mobile phones for confidential communications.

Jews waited for a state of our own 1,900 years. In prayers and supplications, we longed to return to the holy city of Jerusalem. We returned, and now can buy hametz on Pesach in Jerusalem.

That’s how an Arab member of Israeli Knesset, one Tibi, responded to the accusations of illegally visiting the enemy state of Lebanon.

Bin Laden’s lieutenant Zawahiri announce that the terrorist group eyes the battleground in Jerusalem and would seek to attack Jewish targets worldwide.

The former defense minister announced his plans to visit the families of Tanzim victims and ask them to request Israeli government to free the arch-terrorist, Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti. Mubarak once remarked that Arafat “has some very terrible people around him, such as Barghouti.”
Peretz wants Barghouti’s release because “he is respected by Palestinians.” Hamas leader Mashaal, too, is respected.
Peretz understands that he has zero say in releasing Barghouti and only makes the fuss to get some Arab votes in the next primaries.

Israeli army commandment is traditionally apprehensive of ultra-Orthodox Jews, but they showed themselves excellent soldiers. As the enlistment rates among secular Jews are falling, the IDF would have no choice but to ease the access of haredi Jews to combat units.