I had a lecture to give in Haifa the other day. My usual driver wasn’t available, so I called a local cab company to arrange a ride. Call it instinct, but when the cab arrived and I looked at the driver, he just didn’t look the part. For one thing, he was in amazing shape: […]

Letter from Jerusalem, May 30, 2006 Dear Friends, In a Letter from Jerusalem of May 5, 2006, Women in Green appealed to all our friends worldwide to show support for Hananel Dayan, who has been shoddily and unfairly treated by the Israeli Defense Forces, and it’s Chief of Staff Dan Halutz. The following is a […]

Hezbollah, an Islamic terrorist organization closely allied with Iran, long a security nuisance on the northern border, now poses a strategic threat to Israel. Sunday’s rocket strike at a military base near Tzefat was the deepest a rocket fired from southern Lebanon has ever penetrated Israel. The attack, which Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres termed […]

Christians’ Israel Public Action Campaign www.cipaconline.org The June 15th 2006 deadline for moving our US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is fast approaching. The 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act states that the US Embassy should be there, and President Bush promised in his 2000 campaign to put it there ” as a first order of business.” […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 15, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961349445&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Last week, as he presented his new government to the Knesset, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proclaimed that the scattered Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria present a threat to the country and so they must be destroyed. If what Olmert says is true, then no patriotic […]

Two weeks ago, the Shin Bet security service received information about a planned suicide attack in Jerusalem. On Monday, the intelligence paid off. Two Palestinian Authority Arabs were caught Sunday night on their way to carry out a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, announced Haruv Brigades Commander Lt.-Col. Arik Hen. Their presence was discovered during a […]

By Stan Goodenough May 28, 2006 The Iranian-backed, Syrian-supported Hizb’allah organization is suspected of firing a volley of Katyusha rockets into Israel Sunday, hitting an IDF base near the Galilee town of Safed (Tsfat). While hundreds of Katyusha’s have been fired from northern Lebanon over the past two decades, Sunday’s strike was the furthest south […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and Likud MK Yuval Steinitz, the former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, have criticized the decision of the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert to transfer weaponry and ammunition to the presidential guard of Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). According […]

Ehud Olmert’s first visit to Washington as Israel’s prime minister was nothing if not eventful. What with meeting President Bush at the White House, addressing a joint session of Congress, and taking part in all the other social and substantive activities that get packed into a Washington summit, Olmert probably didn’t have much time to […]

Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman Edited transcript of remarks, 3/15/05 Carnegie Council Authors in the Afternoon (Merrill House, New York City). Introduction JOANNE MYERS: Good afternoon. I’m Joanne Myers, Director of Merrill House Programs. On behalf of the Carnegie Council, I would like to welcome our members, guests, and C-SPAN Book TV to our Author […]