Wearing a kaffiya and speaking to a forum of Arab lawyers in Beirut, Faysal Al-Husseini, Palestinian Authority Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, insisted that Sharon must not get a chance to act, Sharon must not be allowed to achieve security because that would defeat the Palestinians politically, and that the Palestinian strategic goal is a state […]

Last November, Mary Robinson, the UN High Cominner for Human Rights, visited Israel (a visit which 11 authorized” by a UN Human Rights Commission lotion that Israel called “unbalanced and offensive”) issued a one-sided report which the Israeli Governt appropriately labeled “fundamentally flawed.’ Rely, Jerusalem issued a response to Robinson’s “report” h was sent to […]

In recent months, several prominent Egyptian artists have visited Baghdad, met with Saddam Hussein, and given lengthy interviews praising Saddam to the Egyptian press. The liberal Egyptian columnist, Ridha Hilal, published an article denouncing this Arab pro-Iraqi lobby. Hilal’s unequivocal criticism of the pro-Iraqi Arab lobby and of the Iraqi leader is unique. Hilal begins […]

Do Poles, along with Germans, bear guilt for the Holocaust? It is hard to imagine a more absurd claim. Not a single Polish family was spared by Hitler and Stalin. The two totalitarian dictatorships obliterated three million Poles and three million Polish citizens classified as Jews by the Nazis. Poland was the first country to […]

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s star correspondent regularly sent to cover major international events, alighted in Israel for the recent elections. Reflecting the general obliviousness of CNN coverage toward the Israeli populace’s deep anxiety in the face of almost daily terror assaults, a seemingly baffled Amanpour declared Sharon’s victory “incredible.” How, she asked her colleague Jerrold Kessel, […]

It’s 12:00, the school bell rings and children from grades 1-8 pour our of their makeshift classrooms (which are in portable homes). Holding candies and art projects, they hurry home to help their families prepare for the Sabbath. Just three months ago, these same children attended school in the Gush Katif communities: Neve Dekalim and […]

Many people ask me how and why I decided to move to Israel and now live in Kfar Darom. I guess the answer is similar to that of most people who took the same path in life. My story begins 21 years ago in Miami, Florida where I was born and raised. Having grown up […]

(MENL) – TELAVIV – Israel is urging the United States not to supply new long range systems to Egypt in its drive to serve as a protector of the Gulf region. Israeli defense officials said the issue was placed at the top of the strategic agenda during the tenure of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak. […]

PARIS-Alois Brunner, the Nazi officer who sent 170,000 Jews to concentration camps and is credited with designing mobile gas wagons to kill Jews before the creation of concentration camps, is probably still living well in Damascus, Syria. ButonMarch2, he was tried in absentia in Paris and found guilty of crimes against humanity. I There were […]

For a community among the most active and generous in the world, American Jewry has been surprisingly placid in recent months regarding the Palestinian wave of terror against Israelis. One would have expected that the daily shootings, stabbings and stonings would have evoked an outpouring of support for the beleaguered targets of the violence. But […]