The Spectacle Blog H/T to my father-in-law (who is not Jewish) A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. So she went to check it out. She went to the Western Wall and there he was, walking slowly up to the holy site. Read More »

Loose Canons By Jed Babbin on 8.27.12 @ 6: 09AM Get ready for war in the Middle East — after the election. Last February Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said “Israel is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off.” Khamenei promised to support any groups fighting Israel anywhere in the world. Read More »

At Large By Daniel Mandel on 8.15.12 @ 6: 08AM Why the British Mandate failed and helped produce an Arab war on Zionism instead. Ninety years ago last month, the League of Nations, the precursor to today’s United Nations, approved the Mandate for Palestine, out of which Israel was to emerge in 1948. Read More »

At Large On Wednesday one of Israel’s largest dailies had a scoop : four months ago a man from Gaza received urgent medical treatment at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel. He had had a serious cardiac episode that no hospital in Gaza was able to treat. Read More »

The Spectacle Blog Yesterday, an Israeli civilian building a fence along its border with Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula was killed in a terrorist attack by the Mujahadeen Shura Council, an affiliate of al Qaeda which dedicated the attack to the late Osama bin Laden. Israeli forces killed three of the Mujahadeen terrorists. Read More »