Middle East

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–In a recent meeting with a popular delegation from Jerusalem at the presidential office in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority  President Mahmoud Abbas highlighted his current positions regarding the Washington-led peace negotiations.  Speaking to an audience of hundreds of Palestinians this past Saturday, January 11, Abbas declared that Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine. […]

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Hundreds of Israeli and international dignitaries attended a state memorial ceremony for the late Ariel Sharon on Monday, remembering the former prime minister as a fearless warrior and bold leader who devoted his life to protecting his country’s security. US Vice President Joe Biden and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair headed the long

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)—Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and the IDF’s General staff have decided to name the new IDF training center in the Negev after former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who during his career was both a minister of defense and a major general, an IDF spokesperson announced. The IDF is moving all

By Shoshana Bryen JERUSALEM – Shortly after the 1982 Lebanon War, I was in Israel with three retired, high-ranking American General Officers, including the former Chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the former Commander, US Air Forces Europe; and the former Commander in Chief, US Army, Europe. We traveled across the north, into Lebanon and

By Aryeh Savir Until his implementation of the disengagement from Gush Katif, Ariel Sharon was a revered leader of the residents of Judea and Samaria, the two areas popularly referred to in the American media as the “West Bank.” In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, Sharon championed construction of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Arik Sharon gave the media plenty of time to prepare his obituary – eight years and one week to be exact. For it was in early January 2006, while serving as Israel’s prime minister, that he had a stroke which rendered him unconscious until he died. And dying today,

 By Aryeh Savir Renewed talk of territory exchanges between Israel and a future Palestinian state as part of a peace agreement, a proposition championed by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, has left many Arabs who have Israeli citizenship worried about losing their status as citizens of Israel. According to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, Israel has proposed to the