The most destructive attack on the American mainland since the War of 1812, when British forces torched the White House, has exploded the myth of American invulnerability to terror. A sizeable force of twenty terrorists, supported by dozens more and what was surely a huge financial and operational infrastructure, managed to elude America’s massive security […]

This is not crime. This is war. One of the reasons there are terrorists out there capable and audacious enough to carry out the deadliest attack on the United States in its history is that, while they have declared war on us, we have in the past responded (with the exception of a few useless […]

Information leading to the identities of the hijackers and their possible sponsors continues to be collected by the FBI in the U.S. It is now assumed that about 50 people were involved in the planning and execution of the attacks, all of them Arabs from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Gulf Emirates. The footprints lead […]

Do you get it now? It is a question that many Israelis wanted to ask yesterday of America and the rest of the finger-pointing world. Not in a smart-alecky manner. Not to say, “We told you so.” It was simply a question for those who, at a safe remove from the terrorism that Israelis face […]

The families of the Israeli-Arab suicide terrorist who murdered three in Nahariya yesterday are currently eligible to receive monthly stipends of some 2,800 shekels ($650) each. He was married to two wives, and each one of them may apply for the “insurance” payment as a result of his death. The law currently does not distinguish […]

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat, speaking from Manhattan: “Yesterday morning, I was sitting in a NY office, explaining that the evils of this century – first Nazi fascism, then Stalinist Communism – began against the Jews, and then continued against the rest of the world. I had just said that the third scourge of the […]

The first months we lived in Kfar Darom we never cooked for the Shabbot since we were always invited to eat by the different families of our community. One Shabbot in November, two days before the tragic attack on our children’s school bus, we were invited to eat lunch with the Cohen family. When we […]

(Washington, D.C.): Today’s attacks against the United States are acts of war. The Nation must vigorously support President Bush in responding appropriately and forcefully. The following essay by the Center for Security Policy’s President, Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., which appeared today in National Review OnLine, offers specific suggestions concerning what such a response should entail. […]

CNN reported, two hours after the attack, that Israel ordered the evacuation of all its diplomatic missions throughout the world. A spokesman for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by Naif Hawatme, denied a report on Abu Dhabi television claiming that it had taken responsibility for the cataclysmic terrorist attack on the […]

A large explosive was discovered and safely neutralized late this morning near Midreshet HaDarom (a study institute and guest house) in Gush Katif, Gaza. Arab residents of the nearby Hamawasi area are assumed to have placed the bomb along the well-traveled road leading to the beach. A Midreshet guest heard a cellular phone ringing incessantly, […]