I celebrated a friend's 50th birthday on the rooftop of the new, posh Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem. I walked into the lobby and everything was quiet, lights were muted, candles were lit and the air was perfumed. Not a convention center atmosphere at all. I felt like I stumbled onto or into a spa. I also felt that I don't belong - kinda like Ellie May Clampett of the Beverly Hillbillies.
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You will all recall that last month, some 300 fake graves were discovered in the Mamilla area and destroyed. Now, the 'Palestinians' are trying to do the same thing, this time outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount. Maya Shukri of the El Har HaMoriyah Institute, who documented the faked graves with her camera, told Arutz7 on Wednesday that at the present time, the graves are empty but an

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's father was expelled from Algeria with the shirt on his back and not much else. Today, rather than living in a 'refugee camp,' Danny is a cabinet deputy minister living in a normal home. So are hundreds of thousands of other Jews and their descendants who were expelled from Arab countries after the establishment of the State of Israel. If the 'Palestinians'

Roger Simon has it right regarding this week's talks in Washington.Now here’s the thought experiment part. I’m assuming most of the readers here — in this case I’d wager 99% of you — have been in negotiations themselves. When you got 98% or even 88% of what you wanted, did you walk away and start a war… okay, just walk away?
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Robert Malley and Hussein Agha are probably the biggest 'Palestinian' apologists in the US foreign policy establishment. After Yasser Arafat walked out of Camp David and started a war ten years ago, they wrote a piece in the New York Review of Books in which they blamed Ehud Barak for not conceding enough!In an op-ed in Thursday's Washington Post, they lament the weakness of Abu Mazen's position

Shomron resident David HaIvri, who reads this blog (or at least its Twitter Feed) regularly, was interviewed by the 'Palestinian' news agency Ma'an regarding the 'direct talks' in Washington. Ha’Ivri concentrated in his remarks on the lack of helpfulness inherent in the U.S. pressure on both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This pressure is “actually counterproductive,” he writes.
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Is this real?

The Stoke-on-Trent Branch of the British Group for the Study of the Juche Idea was formed on August 21 with the 50th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of the Songun revolutionary leadership as an occasion.

Deja vu all over again? Let's hope not. Be strong Bibi. Don't give in.

This is close to the weirdest thing I've ever read. Here are some examples:

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is the head of a stable state with the ability to deliver on his commitments.

I suspect that many of you abroad have no idea how true this is. The truth? In the week that three Presidents, a King and their own Prime Minister gather at the White House to begin a fresh round of talks on peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the truth is, Israelis are no longer preoccupied with the matter. They're otherwise engaged; they're making money; they're enjoying the rays of late