The Quartet’s envoy and former World Bank president James Wolfensohn is reputed to be quite a deal maker. One of the deals he made as the Quartet’s envoy to the region was the purchase by wealthy American Jews of greenhouses owned by the Jews who were expelled from Gaza this past summer and their transfer […]

A sit-in strike is being held outside the government complex, unlimited in time, to demand solutions for the socio-economic problems of the Gush Katif expellees. Tzvika Slonim of Kedumim, a veteran of large-scale public protests against left-wing government policies, has organized this one as well. “It took us ten days to get a permit for […]

While the Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing” of 15 November 2005 established that the PA has the final say on the movement of terrorists through Rafah, the “Agreed Arrangement on the European Union Border Assistance Mission At the Rafah Crossing Point on the Gaza-Egypt border” negotiated by Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres gives the PA […]

As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima Party announced its platform of partitioning the Land of Israel Monday, Arab terror attacks surged across the country. Kassam rockets fired from PA-controlled Gaza slammed into a field near a southern Israeli community early in the day. No injuries resulted and the IDF offered no response. Later in […]

Dr. Mel Rosenberg has a fabulous sense of humor – an absolute requirement, he will explain, for someone who specializes in bad breath and body odor. “I’m a smell-ologist,” he told ISRAEL21c with a grin, before explaining that he will have to cut a meeting short because, “I’ve got a long line of people in […]

The professional literature on terrorism and counter-terrorism remains dense and murky. Anesthetized and bloodless, it is a literature that generally steers clear of the most meaningful forms of understanding. For this to ,change we must first investigate the primary connections between terrorism-inflicted suffering and psychological persuasion. Al-Qaeda operatives, perhaps together with various Palestinian allies, are […]

Reports are increasing that Prime Minister Sharon has drafted a plan for Israel’s withdrawal from almost all of Judea and Samaria by 2008. Middle East Newsline (MENL) reports in the name of “political sources” that Sharon has begun briefing senior U.S. officials of his intention to withdraw unilaterally from more than 95% of Judea and […]

Home Front Commander demands to urgently receive NIS 70 million (USD 15 million) to complete Qassam alert system, reinforce houses of communities surrounding Gaza Ronny Sofer We urgently need NIS 70 million (about USD 15 million) in order to complete an alert and warning system against Qassam rockets and to protect buildings in the communities […]

Ariel Sharon seems to have no qualms about betraying those around him. Following the 2003 election, he betrayed his voters by adopting the policy platform they so soundly defeated in electing him. In May 2004, he betrayed Likud members by ignoring their stated will in the party referendum on the Expulsion Plan. In August 2005, […]

A 16-year-old Jerusalem youth was in serious but stable condition Saturday after being stabbed by two Arab terrorists as he walked home from the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood, east of the Old City. Police are searching for the terrorists, who stabbed the boy six times in the back around 5 p.m. He was rushed to Hadassah […]