Ninety-nine Americans out of 100 have probably never heard of the United States Institute for Peace, but that hasn’t stopped a pitched battle from breaking out over President Bush’s nomination of Daniel Pipes to the institute’s board of directors. The USIP was created by an act of Congress in 1984 “to promote international peace and […]

(Washington, D.C.): With the grace and speed of a child’s toy top, Saudi Arabia’s top public relations “spinner,” Adel al-Jubeir, has been whirling across the airwaves and newsprint of the American media ever since the Kingdom experienced last week’s wave of murderous, terrorist bombings. Mr. al-Jubeir’s ubiquitousness (notably, in place of Prince Bandar, the equally […]

Israel’s 55th birthday this week is a time to step back, if just for a moment, from the whirlwind of daily events — terrorist attacks against Israelis, road map prognostications, internal Palestinian maneuvering, Labor Party changes in Israel — and reflect on the larger picture. The story of Israel these last 55 years, above all, […]

Tzvi Goldstein, 47, of the north Binyamin community of Eli, was buried late last night in Jerusalem. He was driving with his wife and parents to celebrate his son’s wedding Sabbath when two terrorists waiting on the side of the road opened fire near the village of Silwad, north of Ofrah. For reasons that only […]

Over the past two millennia Jews have visited Jerusalem in honor of the festivals in lieu of the biblically ordained pilgrimages. On the holiday of Shavuot, there was also the custom of visiting the grave of King David on Mount Zion, since according to Jewish tradition the day of his birth and the day of […]

Scorecard: Israel 1, Arab states 0. That about sums it up. Israel held elections at the end of January 2003 and three Arab-led parties won 9 seats in the Knesset, Israel`s parliament. Democracy, I was told when I was a young man, meant majority rule with respect for minority rights. Israel more or less qualifies. […]

1623 Third Avenue, Suite 205, New York, NY 10128 Tel: 212-82824-24; Fax: 212-828-1717; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org Contact: Helen Freedman, Executive Director, June 19, 2003 PRESIDENT BUSH WILL BE IN NY MONDAY, JUNE 23 at the SHERATON HOTEL, 7TH AVE., between 52nd & 53rd Streets. AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL/AFSI and AMCHA and all like-minded organizations urge […]

Muslims are regulars at the White House Readers of this column were not surprised by the news article that led the front page of Wall Street Journal last Wednesday. They are already aware that a number of Arab- and Muslim-American organizations and representatives that support Hamas and other militant Islamic (or “Islamist”) terrorist groups have […]

The following is a translation into English of an article by Nadia Matar- The major part of the article was printed as an op-ed on June 10, 2003 in Yediot Acharonot, the Hebrew newspaper with the largest circulation in Israel. The reality in our little country reminds me of a movie that was produced in […]