Yasser Arafat may have lost some of his personal political clout of late, but the political movement he began – demanding justice for Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homes in 1948 – remains as strong as ever. There’s just one problem. There’s not the slightest historical evidence to suggest Arabs were expelled in significant numbers […]

Chief Scientist of the Ministry of the National Infrastructures Introduction In the framework of the peace treaty between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan the integrated development Master Plan for the Jordan Rift Valley (JRV) was studied in the mid 1990’s. The Red Sea – Dead Sea Canal (RSDSC) was considered to be one […]

Twenty-four years after the publication of his book `Dado,’ Hanoch Bartov is back with an expanded edition in his campaign to clear the name of David Elazar, the chief of staff in the Yom Kippur War. A few hours before the Passover seder in 1976, David (“Dado”) Elazar called the novelist Hanoch Bartov and told […]

THE BUSH PLAN: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” elect new leaders not compromised by […]

Why is George W. Bush a president more of word than of deed? Last Wednesday, the president was everywhere. But on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, FDR worked quietly in the White House as America battled Japan on Guadalcanal, U-boats on the Atlantic, and Rommel in Tunisia. In the previous 365 days we had quadrupled […]

TEL AVIV — Israel is bracing for what defense sources termed a massive pre-positioning of U.S. military equipment in the Jewish state as part of preparations for any Washington-led war against Iraq. The sources said the U.S. Army plans to bring such systems as PAC-2 anti-missile and anti-aircraft batteries, ammunition, military systems and logistical supplies. […]

In April 2001 I sent out a letter detailing my experiences working as a street medic at the protests in Quebec City. Today I am sending a similar letter to you, however it is in regard to a radically different situation. This morning my friends and I set out to Concordia University, in the heart […]

Close to 100 Jews took advantage of special military permission to pray at Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem last night – the first time that Jews have been allowed to do so in two years. Buses and private cars brought the worshipers, including family members of terrorism victims from Itamar and other nearby locations. They recited […]

An obscene spectacle took place in North London earlier today. A thousand Muslims gathered at the Finsbury Park mosque to “celebrate” the bombing of the World Trade Center. The Metropolitan Police deployed a force 500 strong to protect the meeting, called “A Towering Day in History,” from disruption. A dozen or so menacing-looking men with […]

Cigarette lighter showing plane striking the World Trade Center in New York In the context of the monitoring process carried out by security forces in order to uncover the smuggling of arms and ammunition to the Palestinian Authority, cigarette lighters depicting the attack on the World Trade Center next to Osama Bin Laden, were found. […]