By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | February 14, 2007 THE TONG WAR between Fatah and Hamas was raging last month when Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas addressed a Fatah rally in Ramallah. “The priority for me is preserving national unity and preventing internal fighting,” he told the crowd on Jan. 11. “Shooting at your brother […]

By: Steven Plaut Jewish Press Wednesday, February 14, 2007 It pains me to tell you this, but Ehud Olmert has actually done something right. Possibly the very first correct thing he has done since becoming prime minister. And it is spectacularly correct! Olmert has appointed Professor Daniel Friedmann as the new minister of justice. And […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva February 19, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) Brig.-Gen. Yossi Beiditz, head of the IDF’s Intelligence Wing Research Division, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Hizbullah has “returned to its pre-war capabilities, and has even become stronger.” Beiditz was asked more than once by committee members if he meant that Hizbullah […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva February 18, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) A Gush Katif expellee and terror victim who won a US court battle against the Palestinian Authority (PA) says the battle has only begun. Moshe Saperstein and his wife, Rachel, have just returned from America, where they attended the proceedings that ended in a ruling awarding […]

ZOA Brandeis Fellow Shikaki has credible terrorist links The distinguished Middle East scholar and director of the Middle East Forum (Philadelphia), Dr. Daniel Pipes, author of 14 books and hundreds of articles, has condemned Brandeis University for “incurring a sorry record when it comes to Israel.” Pipes, (who has taught at Harvard University and the […]

Mordechai Kedar BESA Perspective Paper No. 25, February 15, 2007 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives25.html [Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: In addition, Egypt devotes billions of dollars of American aid to advanced weapons system which they practice using against an “enemy located to the East of the Suez Canal”] For years, especially since the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, Arab […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 15, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1170359870829&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull It is impossible to guess the consequences of the approaching showdown between the US and Iran. But if the events of the past week are any guide, the future does not look promising. President George W. Bush asserted Wednesday that the deal the State Department achieved […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva February 17, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) Sderot residents were besieged by rocket fire over the Sabbath even as Palestinian Authority terrorists attacked each other. The El-Arish Brigades, a terrorist group affiliated with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction, took responsibility for two separate rocket attacks against Israel. Kassam rockets were fired […]

THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 14, 2007 Renowned archeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of the Hebrew University and the Shalem Center answers readers’ questions about the Mughrabi Gate dispute and the status of the Temple Mount in recent years. Of the hundreds of questions received, here are 20 which encompass the major issues at hand. John, Hong […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Jewish Press Wednesday, February 14, 2007 My daughter once worked on a kibbutz near Eilat, so the suicide bombing on January 29 in that normally tranquil Red Sea resort is especially sobering. This Palestinian “freedom fighter” struck a small bakery, killing three shoppers who had stopped by for bread and cakes. […]