When an independent state of Palestine is declared in the next twelve months, on territories carved out of the still-living body of Israel, it will become an optimal platform for future war and terrorism. But the truly existential threat posed by this platform could require some form of prior Israeli nuclear disarmament. Once the new […]

Every Sunday morning, the old cathedral of Toledo, Spain, is witness to an incongruous sight. Protruding from the jacket of one of the worshippers are the white fringes of a Jewish prayer shawl. Jose Luis is not a “Jew for Jesus;” he is a descendant of Conversos (Jews converted to Catholicism at the time of […]

State Atty. Edna Arbel has asked for a recording of the harsh words by MK Ahmed Tibi yesterday against IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz. Tibi called him a “fascist, cold-blooded child murderer.” It appears, however, that his parliamentary immunity will exempt him from standing trial for the crime of incitement. Legislation submitted today […]

Hundreds of mourners at the funeral of long-time Kiryat Arba-Hevron resident Chaim Mageni today were shocked to find that the old Jewish cemetery in Hevron had been, yet again, badly desecrated over the weekend by Arab vandals. Mageni, 56, who passed away suddenly on Friday, is survived by his wife Shoshana, their ten children, and […]

The most damming thing we can say about the carefully worded, even-handed-to-the-nth degree, mealy-mouthed Mitchell Commission Report is that it lacks even a glimmer of original thinking; it fails to ask even the most rudimentary questions: What is happening in the Middle East? Whose national security interests are at risk?  What steps should the U.S. […]

Israeli Editor on the Roots of Palestinian Violence On May 9, 2001, the bodies of two 14-year old Israelis from the settlement of Tekoa were discovered brutally beaten, their heads smashed by rocks. The following day, Sever Plotzker – Editor at large of Economic Affairs, and columnist for the largest circulating Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot […]

Yuval Baruch and Gideon Avni  The ancient city of Jerusalem, which is located within the area of the walled Old City of today, was revealed to the archeological research mainly because of the large-scale excavations carried out in the southern and south-western areas of the Old City: at the Kotel, in the Jewish Quarter and […]

WASHINGTON – The "Commission on Human Rights" is the group of 52 nations that decided in Geneva last week that China – while torturing and killing members of the Falun Gong, raping Tibet’s culture and imprisoning foreign nationals – was not to be censured in any way. At the same time, the U.N. group, turning […]

THE ARABS DO NOT FINANCE THE PLO. Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil producers bankrolled the Islamic Intifada against the Soviets in Afghanistan (some $1BN in 1985-6), but would not finance the Palestinian Intifada of 1987-92 and the current PLO war on Israel. The October 2000 Arab Summit committed itself to a $1BN aid to […]

One of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood definitions in the dictionary of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the term "occupied territories." The vast majority of people simply do not know the facts or misinterpret them, thus completely distorting the real picture of the land distribution between the Arabs and the Jews. The truth of the […]