It appears that Israel may have essentially agreed to an arrangement under which massive quantities of weapons can be moved from Egypt into the Gaza Strip without interference so long as the weapons are not yet used against Israel. This represents a major victory for the Palestinian position, as stated repeatedly by PA security chief […]

(JERUSALEM) – Yom HaShoah in Israel begins the evening of April 28 and continues throughout the day April 29th. The central theme of Yom HaShoah 2003 is “Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust – 60 Years Since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.” In keeping with this theme, and in addition to a section on Holocaust Rememberance Day, […]

The journalist who visited Karnei Shomron intended to write an in-depth article. He wasn’t interested in details of the Likud Conference and didn’t even mention Rabin’s murder. He asked substantive questions and our conversation became increasingly serious. “You say that Sharon is incapable of extricating us from the crisis,” the journalist stated. “So who is […]

Haifa – As we have more than once noted, though Arabs constitute about 20% of the population of Israel, Jews have very little social contact with them. Residents of the Arab towns and villages live in what is, in effect, a ghetto, from which many of them emerge daily to take jobs alongside Jews as […]

The London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a confidential document attesting to intelligence coordination between top officials in the Palestinian leadership, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and the regime of Saddam Hussein, against Iraqi opposition organizations. The document, a coded telegram sent March 3, 2000 from the Iraqi intelligence bureau in Amman, Jordan […]

Even now, even after repeated Hamas bomb attacks on Israeli buses, nurseries and preschools, some will argue passionately that the ends of such barbaric Palestinian violence justify the means – that an end to the so-called Israeli “occupation” justifies premeditated murder of “any and all Israelis.” Leaving aside both ordinary ethical standards (by which this […]

U.S. Army fighter pilots will soon be wearing an Israeli-made helmet that allows them to to lock a missile onto an enemy target aircraft simply by looking at it. Vision Systems International, a subsidiary of Elbit has been awarded a $60.1 million contract from Boeing for the delivery of the 300 joint helmet mounted cueing […]

NPR’s Terror Problem, published last week on National Review Online, documented National Public Radio’s refusal to use any form of the word terror in reporting recent murderous attacks by Palestinians against Israelis, despite the network’s regular use of the terror word in reporting the recent al-Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Rather than referring […]

NEW YORK- Secretary of State Powell has declared his “regret” that Israel eliminated another Hamas terrorist leader, prompting the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to declare its regret that Powell is continuing his policy of trying to protect Hamas leaders from Israel, even though Hamas has murdered 30 Americans and hundreds of Israelis since 1993 […]