Human rights investigators are adding yet another alleged war crime to existing accusations of Israel’s war-time exuberance, as Amnesty International officials believe Israel’s military forces engaged in “wanton destruction” of civilian homes during the bloody assault on Gaza...

The Philadephia Daily News recently ran a compelling profile of international Israeli boxers Ran Nakash (pictured) and Elad Shmouel. The main thrust of the piece is that being raised in the Middle East makes one a particularly hard brand of badass, making Israel an emerging source for fighting talen...

What angers me about Ethan Bronner’s ass-backward reporting on the Gaza war is not that he gets things totally wrong. Actually, he puts the evidence right into his articles for him and all the world to see. But when he pontificates upon the evidence he bowdlerizes it and renders it impotent. I...

IsraellyCool informs us about the IAF's response to repeated transgressions of the "cease-fire" by that Islamo-Fascist hive of malevolence, Hamas. Of course, those "evil" officers of the IDF actually had the audacity to actually warn their intended victims/collateral damage possibilities. The actual...

the post below is bits and pieces of the entire article written by Yair Lapid. To see the full post see the link at the end of the post. I am a Zionist I believe that the Jewish people established itself in the Land of Israel, albeit somewhat late. Had it listened to the alarm clock, there would hav...

More and more, Israel's military response to Hamas' in Gaza is making some pretty surprising bedfellows. Yaron London is one striking example. He's a thoughtful, veteran tv, radio and print commentator and self-described left-winger from way back. His two shekels worth of punditry on affairs of the ...

Too bad our Warriors can't count on the same treatment from our government. From UCI Jerusalem Postby Caroline Glick Last week, the IDF issued an unprecedented directive. All Israeli media outlets must obscure the faces of soldiers and commanders who fought in Operation Cast Lead. Henceforth, the id...

Author and colleague Judy Lash Balint, in a recent, and bitterly poignant post writes: "At the Jerusalem think tank where I work, one of the offices has been dark for almost two months. Noam (not his real name), the bright, articulate, British-born researcher in his mid-thirties, was called up for r...

More liveblogging at IsraellyCool and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/muqata Keyword #GazaWar Note: Using the "Refresh" (F5 key) command in your Web Browser will show you the latest updates -- Refresh on an Apple/Mac is apple+R 11:27 PM Now that Israeli PM Ehud Olmert has announced that the IDF res...

Haaretz brings word of two chilling stories concerning the IDF’s chief rabbi and his sympathies for the extreme nationalist views of the settler movement.  The first recounts the religious fervor which the army’s religious cadre attempted to instill in the troops: …The army rabbin...