Category Archives: Terrorism

Terror attacks don’t just happen

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

There was another automotive terror attack in Jerusalem today, when Ibrahim al-Akari of Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood plowed his van into a crowd waiting at a light rail station on Shimon Hatzadik Street. This time one person was killed and 14 … Continue reading →

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Army destroys Arab homes; media, UN, NGOs yawn

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

The army is destroying civilian structures and expelling residents en masse, claiming that the operation is necessary for security reasons. The plan is to create a buffer zone on the border with Gaza, to evacuate some 10,000 Arabs in a … Continue reading →

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Palestinian child soldiers

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Recently, several Arab teenagers were shot fatally by Israeli security forces. Here is one of them, Orwah Hamad, 14: He was shot in the head with live ammunition. How could we do such a thing to a child? There is … Continue reading →

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Was Kahane right?

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Some years ago I was arrested by the Israeli police and charged with “incitement to revolution.” The grounds? I had reached the conclusion that it was impossible to find a solution for the Arab-Jewish confrontation in the Land of Israel … Continue reading →

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How not to treat an ally

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

From President Obama’s remarks before meeting with PM Netanyahu: I think we also recognize that we have to find ways to change the status quo so that both Israeli citizens are safe in their own homes and schoolchildren in their … Continue reading →

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Two dead murderers

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

News item: Hamas terrorists Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh, who abducted and murdered Israeli teens Gil-ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frenkel in June, were killed Tuesday in a joint military, police and Shin Bet security agency operation in … Continue reading →

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Are Israelis safer than Americans?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

41 days ago I returned to Israel after 26 years of exile in the US. Well, not exactly exile — We could have come back any time, as my wife reminded me often. So finally we did, and last week … Continue reading →

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Three lessons of 9/11 + 13

Posted on September 13, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

…when the Lord your God grants you respite from all your enemies around you in the land which the Lord, your God, gives to you as an inheritance to possess, that you shall obliterate the remembrance of Amalek from beneath … Continue reading →

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