A senior official of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority vowed at a Ramallah press conference on Monday to intensify the violence against Israel. The official’s briefing for Arab reporters is summarized in the following report from the Israeli daily Ha’aretz: The Palestinians have no choice but to step-up violence in the territories to prove they are […]

If there’s a reason to doubt the cynics who hold that a suitcase filled with large notes collateralized the Marc Rich pardon, it’s that nobody has turned up an e-mail to prove it. Just about everything else in this fabulous heist was laid out in detail on the computer by the best and brightest lawyers […]

JERUSALEM – Knesset Member Benny Elon (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) is calling on Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon to take action against the continuing murder of Jews and other Palestinian violence, such as the shooting on Gilo. “Sharon, even before he was elected, intervened in the municipal workers strike,” Elon said, “so how much more so should […]

Palestinian Legislative Council member, Hussam Khadr, has been a staunch opponent of corruption in the Palestinian Authority. In a communique published on the eve of the Israeli elections (1), Khadr relates to the political, administrative and financial corruption in which “we are all drowning.” Following are excerpts from the communique. Khadr demanded that Arafat “carry […]

Contrary to the predictions of many observers prior to the election, Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon assumes responsibility for Israel’s relationship with the Palestinians in particular and the Arab world in general, with considerable latitude facilitated by the Bush administration essentially declaring the demise of the Clinton plan. The message Sharon’s envoys share with world leaders […]

JERUSALEM – The family of Tehilla Cohen and other victims of the Kfar Darom school bus bombing have filed suit against PA security service director Mohammed Dahlan and Yassir Arafat for 100 million shekels. The law suit accuses Dahlan and the PA chairman of responsibility for the terror attack on the bus transporting young children […]

Jonathan Pollard has written to Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon, urging him to pressure US President George W. Bush for a pardon. “Mr. Prime Minister, for the first time since my arrest, you have it in your power to rectify a great injustice in which Israel has been complicit for 16 years. I urge you do […]

Something has been bothering me since Ariel Sharon’s victory speech when he mentioned his conversation with U.S. President George W. Bush. Something – or rather SOMEONE – was missing from the conversation with President Bush. And that someone is Jonathan Pollard. This concerns me greatly because the first conversations between Sharon and Bush will set […]

JERUSALEM – A wave of Arab terror swept Israel on Thursday. It began with a car bomb in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of downtown Jerusalem. One eyewitness to the car bomb blast, a student in the nearby Mir Yeshiva, told reporters that only about ten seconds before the two blasts, a truck delivering liquid propane […]

Letter to the Editor correcting history of Sharon and Sabra/Shatila Regarding (“An open letter to Ariel Sharon” by Muhammed Muslih, Ha’aretz Feb.7,2001 reproduced below: With moral indignation Professor Muslih says Sharon is an “Arab-hater and apostle of violence who collaborated with the Lebanese Phalangist killers in the Sabra and Shatila massacres…” .That’s not what the […]