Israel announced that the cease-fire agreement officially began on Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 3:00pm. Since the official start of the cease-fire, however, nothing much has changed for Yesha residents. In Gaza, the mortar rockets continue to rain down on Jewish communities. Overnight, Arabs continued to attack IDF positions with gunfire and grenades. According to […]

You’d never know it from looking at her, but apparently my mother was a dangerous woman. On Tuesday, she was shot to death on her way to what must have been a sinister deed. Why else would she be killed in a horrible manner? If the gunmen who so callously ripped my mother away from […]

Marc Chagall in Green and Blue: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dreamer Marc Chagall: a great artist or a great Jewish artist? Decidedly both, I would argue, after seeing “Marc Chagall, Early Works From Russian Collections,” on view through October 14 at New York’s Jewish Museum. Indeed, the exhibit, which brings together […]

Amru Nasif, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu´, recently published an article that calls for – in the most frank and most chilling terms – suicide attacks against Israel; the writer even volunteers to “join the ranks of martyrs.” Following are excerpts of his article, published on May 28th, and courtesy of the […]

Dr. Faysal Al-Qasem’s weekly talk show of May 15,2001, on the Qatar TV channel Al-Jazeera, discussed the question, “Is Zionism worse than Nazism?”(1) Against the background of this program were on the one hand, the anti-Semitic remarks made by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and on the other, the manifest signed by 14 Arab intellectuals, denouncing […]

WASHINGTON — In launching a war to drive the Jews from his Palestine, the Arabs’ Arafat has come up with an impressive array of weaponry. It goes beyond the rifles and grenades that too-trusting Israeli governments permitted, which helped transform a police force into an army spoiling for a fight. Now it includes mortars built […]

Amru Nasif, a columnist for the Egyptian opposition weekly Al-Usbu’, calls for martyrdom operations to defeat Israel and volunteers to join the ranks of martyrs. Following are excerpts of his article (1): “…with every blow struck by the Al-Aqsa Intifada, my conviction grows stronger that I, and all those who are of the same mind, […]

Nine AM, Late as usual! I hurried to the main gate of our community praying that I would catch a ride out of Kfar Darom quickly so that I could get to my statistics class in the university I attend in Ashkelon (aprox. a 45 min. drive away). Bag on back, apple in hand, upon […]