Mossad operation recovers Eli Cohen’s watch in Syria

Following a recent secret operation, Israel’s Mossad has returned to Israel the wristwatch of the late Mossad fighter Eli Cohen.  Read more

Analysis: Latest Israeli airstrike in Syria likely stopped new Iranian threat

The recent missile strike on a military airbase deep in the central Syrian desert looks like the latest installment in a long-standing Israeli campaign to police its red lines against highly dangerous developments to its north…writes Yaakov Lappin/JNS. Read more

Storm clouds gathering over the region…writes isi Leibler

The volatility of political activity in the Middle East region is dizzying. Read more

Tension rises in Israel’s north as Syria, Iran team to fight ‘Zio-American schemes’

The IDF struck three Syrian rocket launchers Saturday after five rockets from Syria entered the Israeli Golan Heights earlier that day, and as Iran’s military chief inked an agreement with Damascus pledging to combat “Zio-American schemes.” Read more

America’s Political Mistakes Give Islamic State Big Breaks

America’s ongoing insistence on wanting Syria’s President – Bashar al-Assad – removed from power -continues to hinder American policy on removing Islamic State as a threat to international peace and security…writes David Singer. Read more

Education without borders

‘Education Without Borders,’ a special exhibition has opened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, shows how Israel is alone among Mideast nations in providing continuing education for all hospitalised Israeli children, including Arabs and minorities, and Syrian refugees. Read more

Russia and America Must Jointly Confront Islamic State

The possibility that Russia and America may at long last be seeking common ground on confronting Islamic State has been increased with US Secretary of State John Kerry revealing that his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov has approached America proposing military talks over Syria. Read more

Russia Demands American Capitulation To Help Eradicate Islamic State…writes David Singer

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on America to end its attempt to remove Syria’s President Assad from power in return for Russia’s co-operation to militarily confront Islamic State. Read more

Syria Hysteria Dooms Obama’s Plan To Destroy ISIL…writes David Singer

President Obama’s failed policies in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt and the West Bank do not bode well for the success of the President’s current plans to end the threat to world peace posed by the meteoric rise of both the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) and the Al-Nusrah Front (ANF). Read more

Strategic Vacuum…writes Michael Kuttner

We have been informed by no lesser an authority than the President of the United States that he has no strategy formulated for dealing with the pandemic of terror now spreading across the Middle East and soon to erupt in the USA, UK and Europe amongst other places. Read more

Truce does not equal peace…writes Michael Kuttner

One of the problems we face these days is the inability to recognise reality even when it smacks us in the face. Read more

Natalie Portman joins Israeli Emergency Aid Operation for Syrian refugees

Natalie Portman joined Israeli Emergency Aid Operation for Syrian refugees…and so did former Perth resident Leon Schneider. Read more

Saving Syrian Lives…writes Vic Alhadeff

Israeli hospitals have treated 500 Syrians wounded in the civil war. Vic Alhadeff visited one of those hospitals last week and spoke with a Syrian patient. Read more

Syria – Security Council International Conference Pure Pipe-dream…writes David Singer

It seems incredible that after 17 months of wrangling, the best the U.N. Security Council could agree on is calling for another International Conference, which has no possible chance of convening –  let alone helping –  to peacefully resolve an end to the 30 months old conflict in Syria. Read more

Syria – London Eleven Need Help From Heaven…writes David Singer

Only divine intervention now seems likely to justify continuing support for the anti- Assad forces in Syria by the group known as the London 11 – United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Read more

Hide and Seek…writes Michael Kuttner

At some stage most children have played the game hide and seek where a designated individual closes his/her eyes, counts to 20 or 50 or 100 while the other kids run and hide as quickly as possible. Read more

America’s Isolationism and its Implications for Israel…from Isi Leibler

There is currently a remote possibility that the Russian strategy will succeed in averting US military action by persuading Assad to hand over his chemical weapons of mass destruction for demolition by the international community. Read more

Syria – Obama Left Red-faced Over Red Line…writes David Singer

President Obama has tripped over his own red line – leaving the prestige and authority of his Office and America’s reputation in tatters. Read more

Responding to the Syrian Nightmare…writes Isi Leibler

There are no simple solutions to the horrors unfolding in Syria. Had the West responded sooner, there might have been a remote chance for moderates within the rebel camp to form a functional political authority. Today, that possibility is inconceivable. Read more

Australian ambassador visits Syrian patients in Israeli hospital

Australian Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma and his wife Rachel, have made an official visit to the Ziv Medical Center in Zefat, visiting Syrian casualties hospitalised in different departments of the hospital. Read more

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