Israel’s Memorial Day: The AP, for a change, has no spin at all in this description of Israel today. It’s a miracle!
Israel at 65: The AP is back to its old anti-Israel self with this article. Read it all to get the full gist.
Hizbullah in Syria: They’re sending thousands of Hizbullah fighters into Syria to prop up the Assad regime. Even the AP is reporting it.
Well, I was wrong: Abbas fired Fayyad. Will the Obama Administration punish the PA for defying it so openly? Okay, you can stop laughing now. However, you can also guarantee that the graft that went on so freely before Fayyad was made PM will now go on unabated, while Abbas complains that the Palestinians don’t have enough money to make the payroll. The fact that he is stealing the money will be conveniently ignored. The UN, EU, and US are utterly complicit in this, and unashamed of it.
Eight million and counting: The yearly census is in. Over six million Jews now reside in Israel, with two million non-Jews.
Since the last Independence Day, Israel’s population has grown by 137,000. In this time, 163,000 babies were born and 41,000 people died. About 19,500 olim immigrated to Israel.
The CBS data also showed that in 2010 more than 70% of the Jewish population was born in Israel (and more than half were at least second generation), compared to only 35% in 1948.
Mazel tov!