The commonly accepted version of events is that Clinton promised then-Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, during the Wye talks of late 1998, to release Pollard as part of an overall Israeli-Palestinian Authority agreement. Several Israeli participants at the talks confirm that the promise to release Pollard was indeed made, but Clinton, in his newly released autobiography, […]

JENIN, West Bank \u2014 The Israeli army reports a sharp drop in fatalities from Palestinian terror attacks in the first half of this year, giving much of the credit to the partially completed West Bank security barrier. Palestinians, who are reluctant to find any good in the barrier, also are benefiting from a reduction in […]

(Editor’s note: Ms. Bayefsky delivered this speech at the U.N. at a conference on Confronting Anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding, sponsored by the United Nations Department of Information, this morning.) I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you at this first U.N. conference on anti-Semitism, which is being convened six decades after the organization’s […]

The Agency’s Executive convened yesterday for “extensive deliberations” and announced the following decision: It will “involve itself in planning, at this stage, and if the need arises in the future, also in building new communities and expanding existing communities in the Negev, Galilee and Gilboa funded by the Government of Israel.” The Agency was responding […]

NEW YORK – While the international community focuses on Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza, Palestinian Arab construction in those territories rose nearly 27% this year, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. According to Israeli government estimates, Arabs have been building at ten times the rate of Jews in the territories. The pro-Arafat newspaper Arab […]

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, on the campus of Harvard University, Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (AVOT) will host the fourth in a series of teach-ins at universities across the nation. Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Time: 7:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. Where: Harvard University, Lecture Hall C, Science Center, One Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 […]

Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu denies that he ever agreed to a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights. The issue has risen once again with the release of ex-US President Bill Clinton’s autobiography, in which he claimed that four Israeli Prime Ministers with whom he worked agreed to leave the Golan. The three were Yitzchak Rabin, […]

Today is the 16th of June. The government decision that left the people of Israel nine months to temper the evil decree was on the sixth of June. That means that the period of grace has already been shortened by ten days. What have we done in that time to save ourselves from catastrophe? The […]

Last Thursday, Secretary of State Colin Powell engaged in the Bush Administration\u2019s latest outreach to members of the Arab-American and Muslim-American communities. Unfortunately, as with virtually every one of the Administration\u2019s previous efforts of this kind, those embraced by Mr. Powell are part of the problem – not the solution – in the war of […]

IDF troops arrested three Palestinian suspects in the West Bank on Monday night, including a senior Tanzim official, who the army said tried to escape from authorities by traveling in an ambulance. Earlier in the day, a laborer from Thailand died after being hit in the chest by a mortar fired at the Kfar Darom […]