The two Palestinian Authority children who were killed last week during a protest in Gaza – an incident for which Israel was roundly censored throughout the world – were killed by Arab terrorists. The two Palestinian Authority children who were killed last week during a protest in Gaza – an incident for which Israel was […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is adapted from a speech given last month at the annual conference of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG). The theme of this year’s CIAG conference was “Countering Suicide Terrorism: Risks, Responsibilities and Realities.” At any gathering of analysts, academics, and law-enforcement officers who specialize […]

Frightened and shaking, Yasir Arafat jumps out of his bed in the semi-destroyed room in the Mukkata, where he’s been a virtual prisoner for longer than he cared to remember. The world, it seems, has almost forgotten him. Few dignitaries still bother to visit, and the calls for Israel to allow him to leave Ramallah […]

A group of women from the Negev town of Meitar, in cooperation with the Soldier’s Welfare Committee and the local Education Administration, organized a convoy of vehicles today to bring snacks, underwear, letters from Meitar schoolchildren and other items to soldiers serving in Gaza. The objective of the convoy, according to organizers, is to “encourage […]

(Washington, D.C.): The London Economist Magazine last week emblazoned its front cover with the two-word headline “Resign, Rumsfeld.” In so doing, it succinctly captured the gambit embraced lately by many prominent Democrats, anti-war critics, Bushophobes and opinion elites: Seizing upon the pretext of the widely felt need to appease the Arab world in the wake […]

The unofficial website of Gush Katif, katif.net, received the following letter from soldiers of the Givati Brigade: Dear Gush Katif residents, A week ago we lost six fighters from our unit. During these difficult hours, we were able to feel how those whom we are protecting show their gratefulness to us – by coming to […]

For the first time, Palestinian-launched Kassam rockets have landed near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, north of Gaza and on the route to Ashkelon. Nine such rockets were fired last night from northern Gaza at Israeli towns. For the first time, Palestinian-launched Kassam rockets have landed near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, north of Gaza and on the route […]

TEL AVIV – Israel has been urged by leading strategists to plan preemptive strikes against weapons of mass destruction arsenals in the Middle East. A report, entitled “Israel’s Strategic Future,” asserted that Israel must prevent the formation of an enemy WMD coalition through such means as conventional preemptive strikes against vital facilities. The report said […]

I would like to preface what I am going to say with the fact that I was once very committed to Leftist/Liberal notions of peacemaking, but realities since 9/11 struck me very hard. I was forced to shed the beautiful notions of peace and humanitarianism as the means to achieve peace, in the face of […]

Operation Rainbow – the IDF’s anti-terror operation along the Israeli-Egyptian border in southern Gaza – was expanded last night. Large forces, covered by combat helicopters, entered another neighborhood of Rafiach, named Al-Barazil, along the Philadelphi Route. The Philadelphi Route is the sterile area that the IDF has plans to widen, under which the Arabs have […]