“There is no reason not to allow Jews to visit the Temple Mount, even without the Moslem Waqf’s permission.” So said Police Superintendent Chaim Klein, formerly the head of the Israel Police Intelligence Section, speaking recently to a group of Public Security Ministry officials. The GSS also agrees that the Temple Mount can be opened […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Cabinet convened this morning and decided to end the more obvious aspects of the IDF’s siege of Yasser Arafat’s Mukata compound in Ramallah. Tanks have already begun to be removed from the view of those in the Mukata’s remaining building, but troops will remain close by to arrest any […]

Now that it’s been a year since America tasted horrific acts of terrorism on its own soil, it’s important to review that Saudi “peace plan.” I know you’re thinking, “What? The very country that supplied nearly all of the September. 11th terrorist hijackers? The same place that has an appalling record of human rights abuse, […]

(IsraelNN.com) MDA emergency medical service officials reporting four persons were lightly wounded by gunfire in the Southern Hevron Hills area shooting attack, not three as believed earlier. A fifth victim, an infant girl, is reported in moderate-to-serious condition, en route to the Hadassah Hospital trauma center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood.

President George Bush’s recent speech to the UN on the danger that Iraq poses to the people of the world, and the necessity of taking strong pre-emptive measures to foreclose that danger, is a model of courageous and rational thinking. It is so much easier to wait until after the disaster before reacting. It requires […]

This morning British Prime Minister Tony Blair released a 55-page dossier revealing that Iraq has the ability–and is planning–to launch long-range missiles armed with chemical and biological warheads against its enemies. The report shows that included in his arsenal are 20 al-Hussein missiles with a range of 650 kilometers (about 400 miles). Such missiles would […]

Last night IDF troops, backed by tanks and helicopters, moved into three sections of PLO-controlled Gaza in a move aimed at weakening the terror infrastructure. PLO officials say that at least nine Arabs were killed, and twenty others wounded in exchanges with the troops. Among the dead were two senior Al-Aksa Brigade terrorists. During the […]

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem like other cities in Israel is preparing a disaster plan in the event of a missile attack launched by Saddam Hussein. Following is a very brief overview involving some of the major preparations involved. TENT CITIES TO BE ESTABLISHED Teddy Stadium and Sacher Park will serve as tent cities to house the homeless […]

When MIT Professor Nancy Kanwisher helped launch a petition last spring calling on Harvard and MIT to cut their financial ties to Israel, she saw it as a political protest against Israel’s alleged violation of Palestinians’ human rights. But in the months since she helped gather signatures on the two campuses, her effort has become […]

Who says history can’t repeat itself? The circumstances may be different, but for the second time in 11 years, the presidency of a man named George Bush is being undermined by a senior official named Colin Powell determined to keep Saddam Hussein in power. In 1991, then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell — who vociferously had argued against military action in response to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait […]