Two Palestinian children have been killed in a collision between an Israeli army jeep and a tractor. In the incident, an Israeli army jeep hit the trailer of a tractor in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank. The children, aged four and five, were on the tractor with two other Palestinians who were seriously injured, AFP reported on Wednesday. Two Israeli soldiers in the jeep were slightly... 

A new GRU report prepared for Prime Minister Putin circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States “ceased to exist” yesterday after President Obama ceded control of the American government over to the cabal of Wall Street bankers headed by the private investment bank Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and completing one of our modern World’s most successful coup d’états. Obama,... 

Ring ‘exploited desperate condition of sick people’, say Israel police. Israel has charged five of its citizens, including a retired army general, with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. The charges include human trafficking for the purpose of organ harvesting and money laundering. The indictment says that the ring exploited the desperate... 

Not well-liked in the world Survey conducted in 28 countries on 29,000 respondents reveals that only Iran, Pakistan, North Korea have more negative perception than Israel. Most ‘loved’ country is Germany. ‘Obama effect’ has resulted in improvement in relations towards US for first time since 2005. Only Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan are viewed in a more negative light than... 

Who's behind Sarah Palin? The flag in the background tells it... A new Jewish organization has been started in the United States – openly supportive of Sarah Palin, but its bottom-line goal appears to be opposition to President Barack Obama and his tilt against Israel. The group was officially formed Sunday in honor of Israel’s Independence Day by Jewish communal activist Benyamin Korn, former... 

Talks with trend forecaster Gerald Celente. Mr. Celente publishes the Trends Journal. He predicts an economic collapse, tax rebellion, and civil strife in America.  Read More »

WJC President Ronald Lauder World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has publicly questioned United States President Barack Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security, in a letter he reportedly drafted with the approval of his close friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy,”... 

Syria’s foreign minister has said that Israel, with the numerous atomic warheads it has in its stockpile, poses the biggest nuclear threat to the Middle East. Walid al-Muallem made the remark after he arrived in the Iranian capital to take part in the two-day nuclear disarmament conference, dubbed ‘Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One.’ “The Tehran conference... 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews last month in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama’s news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement. When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle... 

U.S. President Obama and China's President Hu Jintao, left, on Monday. French President Nicolas Sarkozy told the American news network CBS on Tuesday that an Israeli military attack against Iran would be “disastrous” and that Israel must understand that “we are determined to ensure its security.” Hours before U.S. President Barack Obama opened a landmark summit of 47 nations... 

“I am Hanna Weiss, a native of Italy, No. A5377. I left Auschwitz alive. I feel that I triumphed. I have had a full, rich life. Every day that a person lives is a holiday.” This statement by a survivor summed up the most important week in the Jewish-Israeli calendar, the week between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers, the week that epitomizes... 

Free Speech? A Rome court has sentenced a man to six months in jail for having posted a list of 162 academics on his blog and describing them as members of an alleged “Jewish lobby.” In a verdict handed down Thursday, Paolo Munzi, 42, was convicted of defamation. But he was acquitted of having violated privacy laws and a law against instigating racial hatred. In February 2008 Munzi posted... 

According to Israeli press, police arrested six men in northern Israel Tuesday, in a crack-down on illegal human organ trafficking. Police had launched an investigation after receiving a number of complaints from people who had responded to a newspaper ad saying respondents would be paid $100,000 for a kidney. The respondents participated, giving up a kidney in surgery completed out of Israel,... 

Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population, that is more than $5,700 per person. This is an estimate by Thomas Stauffer, a consulting economist in Washington. For decades, his analyses of the Middle East scene have made him a frequent thorn in the side of the Israel lobby. For the first time in many years, Mr. Stauffer has tallied... 

An Israeli F-16 warplane takes off to a mission in Lebanon from an air force base in northern Israel. Israeli fighter jets have attacked central and eastern Gaza Strip following Tel Aviv’s threats of a fresh round of strikes on the blockaded sliver. The Sunday raids targeted al-Maghazi near the Gaza City and al-Qarara in the town of Khan Younis. The locals reported an increase in Israeli military...