Our respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books – all quite recently written and published – is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims […]

Egypt has concluded what it called a “major military exercise” in the Sinai Peninsula. Middle East News Line (MENL) reports that the 10-day exercise was conducted by the Third Army in southern Sinai, and was meant to determine combat skills and integrate new weaponry and systems for Egypt’s ground forces. The exercise, the second in […]

After his visit with President Bush and Congressional leaders, Israel’s Ariel Sharon returned to his farm, surveyed his cattle and sheep, and as the Sabbath sun set, took my call. If war starts, did you promise Bush that Israel would not be provoked by Saddam into responding to his missile attack, thereby troubling whatever Arabs […]

Despite yesterday’s massacre, the plans to withdraw the IDF forces from most of Hevron this week are still in effect. A senior Central Command officer told Arutz-7’s Haggai Huberman that the redeployment would take place after two issues are agreed upon: What security authorities the Arabs in Hevron will assume, and in which evacuated areas […]

As Mordechai’s sisters and I dashed around making last minute preparations before the holiday, Mordechai and his mother worked hard re-planting 2 wild pear tree which they uprooted from the wadi below us. On Shabbot day (first day of Sukkot) my father-in-law was asked to speak to the volunteers. he became the biggest pioneer of […]

(Updated – Monday – 9:40pm) Police officials a short time ago announced the death toll in the bus bombing attack has climbed to 14. In addition, the body of one terrorist has been identified. Authorities caution that a body of a second terrorist may be among the 14 although this is not believed to be […]

(IsraelNN.com) The left wing’s hate campaign attached to last week’s annual anniversary for Yitzhak Rabin continues to gain momentum as MKs and left wing notables “warn” that the actions aimed at preventing the dismantling of Yesha (Judea, Samaria, & Gaza) outposts are “setting the stage for another political assassination”. Labor MK Tzali Reshef attacked Rabbi […]

After almost four stormy hours of attempts to destroy the remaining structures in the Gilad Farm, and after an aborted shot at it last night, the army finally succeeded shortly before 3 PM this afternoon. After the synagogue was taken down, and after a crane was put out of commission by the crowds that arrived […]

Hundreds of soldiers were bussed to the mission of “outpost evacuation” on Sabbath afternoon, including many who are religiously observant. They were thus faced with the dilemma of either “keeping the Sabbath” or following their commanders’ orders. Yitzchak Meir, father of one officer who faced this problem, told Arutz-7 his story: “My son, a commander […]