At the 17th Knesset’s inaugural ceremony, Peres said the Palestinian people, which recently voted Hamas into power, is not our enemy. Katzav said he hopes Hamas’ path is not that of the PA’s Arabs. Over a third of the 120 Knesset Members are first-timers. Two temporary committees – Finance, and Foreign Affairs and Defense – […]

An Arab suicide bomber, detonated a large explosive at a Tel Aviv fast food stand in the Neveh Sha’anan neighborhood Monday afternoon, killing at least nine civilians. At least 66 persons were wounded, with 15 sustaining moderate to severe injuries. The wounded have been evacuated to local hospitals, among them, Ichilov, Beilinson, Wolfson, and Tel […]

By Ari Shavit Haaretz April 15, 2006 Good morning, Ehud Olmert. This morning is no ordinary morning. This morning is this morning. From this day forth you, Ehud Ben Mordechai and Bella Olmert, are the prime minister of Israel. You know full well, Mr. Prime Minister, that your selection was the result of massive spin. […]

Outrage and disbelief as world soccer body condemns Israel, not Hamas. By Tom Gross Israel is used to being singled out for unjust criticism and subjected to startling double standards by the United Nations, the European Union, much of the Western media and numerous academic bodies. But now FIFA, the supposedly nonpolitical organization that governs […]

by Daniel Pipes New York Sun April 4, 2006 Since I argued in a column last week that Israel can and must defeat the Palestinian Arabs, a barrage of responses have contested this thesis. Some were trivial (Ha’aretz published an article challenging my right to opine on such matters because I do not live in […]

Aaron Lerner Date: 16 April 2006 Israel Radio correspondent Shmuel Tal reports this morning that Kadima MK Shimon Peres proposes that in order to avoid delays in the export of time sensitive agricultural produce that Israel should allow the opening of the Gaza Airport for direct export to Europe. “There is no point checking for […]

Good morning, Ehud Olmert. This morning is no ordinary morning. This morning is this morning. From this day forth you, Ehud Ben Mordechai and Bella Olmert, are the prime minister of Israel. You know full well, Mr. Prime Minister, that your selection was the result of massive spin. The one elected in the 2006 elections […]

Jonathan Pollard’s wife Esther said this morning that U.S. President Bush is ready to free the imprisoned Israeli – but that Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert has to make the request. Speaking on Channel Two’s Monday morning television talk program, Esther Pollard said, “Someone who is very close to President Bush came to me last night […]

How realistic are those, who blur the security indispensability of the Judea & Samaria (J&S) mountain ridges, which constitute the “Golan Heights” of Jerusalem, of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem freeway and of the coastal plain? If they would merely assume that the peace treaty with Jordan, and the demise of the Saddam regime, have eliminated the […]

Iran has readied an “army” of 40,000 suicide bombers to strike targets all over the Western world and Israel as a response to a possible attack on their nuclear facilities, the British Sunday Times reported Sunday morning. Two senior officials from the Homeland Security Agency, who spoke on condition of anonymity, agreed with the prediction […]