Does Baker really believe that a connection exists between the Palestinian issue and Islamic terrorism? Does he actually assume that the less-than-a-century-old Palestinian issue is the core cause of the 13-century-old Islamic terrorism and Mideast violence? Iffff there were such a connection, then it would behoove the US to focus on minimizing Mideast violence and […]

Institute for Contemporary Affairs founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 6, No. 17 – 18 January 2007 The Arab World’s Political Dilemma: Between Islamic “Resistance” and the Western State System Pinhas Inbari * What type of political system does the Arab world want to have? Normal […]

by Ezra HaLevi Hundreds of ranchers, farmers and citizens from the Golan, Negev and everywhere in between turned out Wednesday to protest in favor of the rancher charged with murder for shooting a thief. The protestors surrounded the Be’er Sheva courthouse where Shai Dromi (pictured above) was to appear before a judge. They say the […]

By Haggai Hitron Ha’aretz Several former employees of the Shin Bet security service, including former chief Avraham Shalom, and former employees of national air carrier El Al gathered yesterday to reconstruct the daring capture of Adolf Eichmann. Television personality Dan Margalit convened participants in the complex operation at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak’s Massuah Institute for a […]

By: Editorial Board Jewish Press Wednesday, January 17, 2007 We admit to some uneasiness about urging censorship on campus. As members of a minority group we are all too aware where such things can lead. But some positions are not debatable, and providing those who promulgate them a forum is akin to offering a platform […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva A former U.S. Justice Department official disclosed to Arutz-7 that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s advocacy extended beyond the Palestinians, when he interceded on behalf of a Nazi SS man. Neil Sher, a veteran of the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigation, described a letter he received from Carter […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva January 17, 2007 Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz tendered his resignation early Wed. morning to PM Olmert and Def. Min. Peretz, not bothering to wait for the Winograd Commission’s findings on the Lebanon War. In his letter of resignation, the Chief of Staff clarified that his responsibility as a commander and as […]

January 15, 2007 — Has a former president of the United States – a Nobel Peace Prize winner, no less – given his blessing to wanton murder and terrorist assaults against Israel? Sure looks that way. How else to read that astonishing statement on page 213 of Jimmy Carter’s new anti-Israel screed, “Palestine: Peace, Not […]

by Mordechai Ben Menachem Arutz Sheva January 17, 2007 When Yitzhak Rabin ran for election as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1992, he publicly declared at a giant election rally just two weeks before the election, “Whosoever gives up the Golan Heights, abandons the security of the State of Israel.” Only days after a UN resolution […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Jewish Press Wednesday, January 10, 2007 What [would be] the effect of Israel-PA agreements in bringing about a Palestinian state? Here, it is altogether probable that Israel’s substantial loss of strategic depth would be recognized by Iran as a significant military liability for Tel-Aviv. Such recognition, in turn, could heat up […]