“Whoever thinks that Yasser Arafat was defeated by giving in to pressures and agreeing to the appointment of Dahlan as Security Affairs Minister – is mistaken.” So said a PA leader today to an Itim News Agency reporter, bearing out the words of a high-ranking Israeli security official to correspondent Haggai Huberman last night. Itim […]

Minister of Tourism Benny Elon dedicated a new play space for the children of the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shimon HaTzaddik this morning. The area, transformed from an underground sewage pit previously used by Arab squatters, was donated by the Brecher and Allen families of New York. Revitalization of the neighborhood, which surrounds the more-than-2,000-year-old […]

Shalom. Everyone seems to be standing in line to shake his hand, to give him a hug, wish him luck, and help him on his way to eternal fame and glory. George Bush will invite him to the White House. Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street. And even our Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, in […]

A security guard for Israel Railways in Kfar Sava was killed this morning while preventing a suicide terrorist from entering the train station in the eastern part of the city. As the 22-year-old guard was checking the 18-year-old terrorist, from the Al Aksa Brigades of Fatah, the latter put his hand in his coat and […]

This Action Alert will go to the following: U.S. Leadership: President, Vice President, Speaker of the House Israeli Leadership: Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister of Defense, Minister of Finance, Selected MK’s This message will also be sent to both of your Senators and to the Representative for your district in the House of […]

Hamas terrorist: CAIR supports him, opposes Dr. Pipes. The president’s recent selection of Daniel Pipes to serve on the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace is noteworthy because it appears to signal that the Bush White House was sensitive after all to an important distinction: Not all Muslims are Islamists — members of virulently […]

In a plan that was reminiscent of the attempted downing of an Israeli Arkia airliner in the skies over Kenya in November, al-Qaeda terrorists had reportedly planned to shoot down a London-bound El Al airliner. The Yediot Acharonot newspaper reported today that members of the terror network intended to break into Legoland, a theme park […]

In ironic contrast to its correct stance on Iraq, the Bush Administration now proceeds to create another terror state in the Middle East. Fashioned by a so-called Quartet – the United States; Russia; the European Union and the United Nations – the President’s plan is known formally as “The Road Map for Implementation of a […]

After having appointed his Fatah crony Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as the putative prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, PLO chief Yasser Arafat is on the verge of blocking his own appointee’s progress. In fact, reports from within the PA indicate that Arafat is seeking an alternative to Abu Mazen, the result of serious disagreements […]

A great many Jew knows the story of how the Danes rescued 8,000 Jews from the Nazi’s by smuggling them to Sweden in fishing boats. Very few Jews, including me, until yesterday, know the story of how all 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were saved. Not a single Bulgarian Jew was deported to the death camps, due […]