Syrian military threatens Israel following border victory
Syria’s military threatened Israel after reportedly capturing the town of Qusair on the Lebanon border.
Syria’s military threatened Israel after reportedly capturing the town of Qusair on the Lebanon border.
Efforts are intensifying for the release of Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit on the fifth anniversary of his capture by the terrorist organization Hamas.
Mohammed Abu Abbas, the terrorist whose botched ocean-liner hijacking in 1985 ended in the murder of an elderly American Jew and set back the Palestinian cause, has died in American custody.
What does the capture of Saddam Hussein mean for Jewish voters in 2004? Will it shift the preferences of Jewish Democrats as they weigh the party\’s presidential contenders? Will it push Jewish voters closer to supporting President Bush for re-election?
After surviving the Holocaust and five Middle East wars, Ze\’ev is a hard man to impress. But news of Saddam Hussein\’s capture Sunday managed to move the Israeli retiree to tears.
\”It is good to see Israel a little bit safer,\” Ze\’ev said in his hometown of Ramat Gan, as footage of the Iraqi tyrant-turned-prisoner played on television screens at roadside snack stands. Ramat Gan, where Iraqi Jewish emigres settled en masse in the 1950s, ironically was a main target of Saddam\’s Scud missiles in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.