1. The Mandate For Palestine Still Matters 90 Years Later, Myths and Facts, Eli E. Hertz
2. PM Netanyahu Speaks to National Defense College Students, Prime Minister's Media Adviser, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
3. Why Don't Rocket Attacks Against Israel Get Headlines?, FrontPage Magazine, Giulio Meotti
4. Who Will Save the Christians in the Gaza Strip?, The Jewish Press, Khaled Abu Toameh
5. FM: WMD transfer to Hezbollah is 'justification for war', The Jerusalem Post, Herb Keinon

...After witnessing the spread of anti-Semitism around the world, Theodor Herzl felt compelled to create a political movement with the goal of establishing a Jewish National Home in historic Palestine, and assembled the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland. During World War I, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour simply expressed Great Britain's view with favor for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

In contrast, the Mandate is the multilateral binding agreement which laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in the geographical area called Palestine, the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law.

The Mandate was not a naive vision briefly embraced by the international community. The entire League of Nations – 51 countries – unanimously declared on that July 24th, 1922: "Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country."...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Monday, 23 July 2012), met with students at the National Defense College and briefed them on the opportunities and threats stemming from the changes in the region. He noted five main challenges facing Israel: The Iranian nuclear threat, cybernetics, missiles, borders and the arming of the region with conventional weapons.

1. On the Iranian nuclear issue, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that as of now sanctions had not achieved the desired result, i.e. the halt of Iran's nuclear program.

2. On the cybernetics issue, he noted that Israel was among the world's leading countries in the field.

3. On missiles, he emphasized both active defense measures (intercept systems) being developed by Israel and passive defense....

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Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheba….All major southern Israel cities are again under a heavy rocket offensive from Hamas-controlled Gaza. There are Jewish dead, babies wounded, schools and synagogues destroyed, cities and towns terrorized. The latest wave of rockets took place only last week. But Israel as the most heavily bombed nation in the world never makes the headlines. Why?

Sderot represents the siege on the Jewish people and the resistance of Israel, but it also reveals the rest of the world’s indifference to the genocidal hatred that is jihadism.

12,000 Palestinian rockets have fallen on Sderot and Ashkelon in the last ten years. The sense of death has pervaded the streets, the schools, the houses and the local clinic, where a wonderful and brave Romanian-born psychiatrist, Adriana Katz, takes care of these victims.

“There are people who take the taxi to reach our clinic, in case the alarm will sound,”  Dr. Katz told me. “Many people lost hearing ability because they live close to the alarm. There are even those people who hear the alarm even when it’s silent. The heart is crying.” But the world is deaf. And the Western media is mute....

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Gazan Christians celebrating Easter Mass (Photo Credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Are Palestinian Christians living in the Gaza Strip being kidnapped by Muslims who force them to convert to Islam? This is a story that is considered taboo among many Palestinians, who prefer to lay all the blame only on Israel.

According to the Greek Orthodox Church in the Gaza Strip, at least five Christians have been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam in recent weeks.

If anyone has good reason to fear for his life it is Archbishop Alexios, head of the Greek Church in the Gaza Strip, who is spearheading the protests against persecution of Christians and forced conversions....

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The transfer of chemical weapons from Syria to Hezbollah is a clear casus belli, and Israel will act "decisively and without hesitation or restraint,"  Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday.

Speaking at a press conference at the EU-Israel Association Council meeting in Brussels, Liberman said this would be "a completely different ballgame, and we hope for the understanding and cooperation of the international community."

Liberman said the international community should get involved to prevent the possibility of using biological and chemical weapons....

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