Yesha Council leaders who met with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last night left unsatisfied. Sharon rejected claims that the government has been conducting ongoing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority despite the continuing violence, and said that the perception of Peres’ influence on government policy is exaggerated. To the Yesha members’ claim that Sharon was essentially […]

In response to the IDF withdrawal from the Givat Shalhevet (Abu Sneineh) and Haret a-Sheikh neighborhoods in Hevron, the National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu party resigned today from the national unity government. The move comes seven months after the formation of the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Minister of Infrastructures Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beiteinu), Tourism Minister […]

Concerning Arafat, the Defense Minister said that the PLO leader has taken advantage of the present situation to “supply the Americans with needed quiet – this is why he is expressing opposition to Bin Laden and preventing the Palestinians from demonstrating against the U.S. He has changed his plan of action, without changing his strategic […]

ARAB NATIONS, including those considered allies of the United States, have been struggling with their response to the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan. If their contortions were not so familiar they would be hard to understand: After all, Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization are sworn enemies of the Egyptian and Saudi governments, […]

The full Cabinet discussed the security cabinet’s decisions in a stormy session this morning. A group of Women in Green demonstrated outside the government offices, crying out, “The voice of the blood of our brothers is screaming out from the earth.” Itim correspondent Yoram Levy told Arutz-7 that Prime Minister Sharon clearly did not like […]

Note: Please write call or email President Bush. Let’s face it: Jews in this country have lost their influence. Ironically, the area where Jews dominate, the media, is precisely one of the areas that has proven most inimical to Jewish interests. The New York Times, the TV networks and many other mainstream American publications continue […]

(IsraelNationalNews.com) During a Friday meeting in the Defense Ministry attended by the prime minister, defense minister and senior members of the security establishment, it was decided not to relax security restrictions on the PA at this time. Officials added the security establishment was carefully monitoring ongoing PA activities to stop terrorist attacks, adding the upcoming […]

Yasser Arafat has expressed his public thanks to U.S. President George Bush for reiterating last night his recent support for a Palestinian state that would recognize Israel’s right to exist in security. Bush also said that the world should applaud Arafat for the “firm manner in which he dispersed the pro-Bin Laden demonstrations in Gaza.” […]

About the President of the United States, one question has become critical and pivotal: Is he a man of constancy in his conduct of the war against terrorism? Most Americans, this one included, certainly thought so after his vibrant, passionate denunciations of terrorists in New York City and Washington, demanding their elimination and that of […]

Perhaps the most admirable part of the response to the conflict that began on Sept. 11 has been a general reluctance to call it a religious war. Officials and commentators have rightly stressed that this is not a battle between the Muslim world and the West, that the murderers are not representative of Islam. President […]