As the new Bush administration begins formulating its policies regarding Israel and its Arab neighbors, it has an opportunity to assess the serious flaws in the previous administration’s approach, and to consider new ways in which America’s interests in the Middle East may best be safeguarded in the years ahead. During the election campaign, Mr. […]

JERUSALEM – After months of being criticized for making hasty, impulsive decisions, Ehud Barak has done it again–and this time it may prove crucial in helpin Ariel Sharon form his governing coalition. At the end of his concession speech, Barak impulsively announced that he is resigning as head of the Labor Party. Barak not only […]

A leading Republican Senator, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, is urging President Bush to adopt a “new approach” to Middle East policy, including fulfilling the U.S. law to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, and refraining from pressuring Israel. In a January 30, 2001 letter to the president, Senator Santorum urged him to “avoid the mistakes […]

#1 Do not destroy the documentation of negotiations In his resignation speech, Prime Minister Ehud Barak claimed that the concessions that his negotiating team offered the Palestinians will ultimately set future negotiations as the Left will eventually be victorious. Earlier this week Ha’aretz reported that the Barak Government, in anticipation of Barak’s defeat, was already […]

JERUSALEM – As the votes are tallied in Tuesday’s landslide victory for Likud leader Ariel Sharon, a clearer picture is emerging of who voted for Sharon–and why. Younger voters supported Sharon, as did lower-income Israelis. But middle-class Israelis also supported him in large numbers. The driving issue: security. The daily Arab violence that has wracked […]

Nothing enduring has come of President Clinton’s midnight schemes for a Mideast settlement. And nothing should – for they presume that Yasser Arafat is a partner for peace and that his word on still another agreement can be relied upon. Six times – from Oslo to Cairo, through Wye to Camp David – Arafat has […]

JERUSALEM – Ehud Barak’s desperate last-minute concessions do not seem to have succeeded in persuading Arab voters to support him. Trailing by 15-20 points in all of Israel’s polls, Barak gave an election-eve interview to an Arab television station in which he promised that he “would try to reach a compromise solution to the refugee […]

WHO WERE THE 1948 REFUGEES? 1. 630,000 Palestinian, and 820,000 Jewish, refugees were produced by the 1948 war, which was launched by Palestinians, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon against Israel. 2. The Jewish refugees – from Muslim countries – were absorbed (590,000 in Israel), as were millions of European refugees in the aftermath of […]

Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority is stockpiling weapons prohibited by the Oslo accords, including rocket-propelled grenades and anti-aircraft missiles, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz has revealed. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging President Bush to demand that Arafat surrender his arsenal. Ha’aretz Military Correspondent Amos Harel reported (Jan. 29, 2001) that “a merchant ship dropped […]

Arab terrorism has been part of Israel’s history with the Arabs, both before and after Israel’s statehood. Perhaps you remember the fedayeen. Arabs who slipped over the borders from the surronding Arab countries and attacked buses and schools killing many Jews. Over 5,000 acts of terror have occured during the last intifada which stated during […]