General: The Tanzim (armed militia) are part of the Fatah organization, with declared official goals and objectives of a political and social nature. The Tanzim (“organization” in English) work towards expanding the membership of the Fatah organization to be the largest and leading Palestinian faction in the PA. However, the reality of the Tanzim is […]

1. HSBC Bank will o its first Israeli branch in January 2001 following in the footsteps of Citibank, which led the way half a year ago. The Head of the Israel Branch: “Opening a branch, signals confidence in the long term viability of Israel’s economy, and readiness to enter into long-term financial commitments… No one […]

Goebbels said that “if the lie is big enough and told often enough, it will be believed.” Yassir Arafat and the Arabs claimed the Holy Jewish Temple Mount and Jerusalem based upon one extraordinarily huge lie told over and over again. Here their is a brief history of the religious war against the Jewish people, […]

Many American Jews are lamenting the end of the presidency of a man whom they have perceived to be the friendliest to Jewish interests in American history.. The truth or falsehood of that assertion will be judged by historians, but there is no denying that the affection felt by many American Jews for President Clinton […]

Al- Buraq was the Prophet Mohammed’s magical winged steed. According to Islamic tradition, Mohammed tied it to one of the walls of the Temple Mount after his night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem. The Muslims believe the wall in question was the Western Wall, attributing even more holiness to this site than the other walls […]

This week, as blood-thirsty crowds cheered, the Palestinians executed two individuals accused of working as agents for Israel’s military intelligence network.Although radio listeners knew that the two were going to be executed by a firing squad, the Israeli government and its people, whose security these two persons had apparently risked their lives to protect, did […]

On Feb. 28, 1973, James J. Welsh, the National Security Agency’s Palestinian analyst, was summoned by a colleague about a communication intercepted from Yasser Arafat involving an imminent Black September operation in Khartoum, Sudan. Within minutes, Welsh recalls, the director of the NSA was notified and the decision was made to send a rare “FLASH” […]

The talk of the day is last night’s debut of the Prime Ministerial election campaign commercials. Each candidate is allotted an equal amount of time for television (and radio) ads, which will appear on both major channels at specific times each evening for the next three weeks. Last night’s ads featured Prime Minister Barak enumerating […]

CAIRO – Much to the consternation of Israeli officials, Egypt continues to spend is money on guns instead of butter. Egypt this week announced it will purchase four Ambassador MK III fast missile patrol craft in a $400 million deal. The manufacturer of the Ambassador is Halter Marine Inc., a subsidiary of Friede Goldman Halter […]

(syndicated by the Boston Globe) In proposing that eastern Jerusalem become part of a sovereign Arab state, President Clinton is urging not just a bad idea, but one that has already been tried — with disastrous results. Jerusalem was always one city before May of 1948, the month British rule in Palestine came to an […]