America’s long relationship with Saudi Arabia, home to most of the hijackers, is a tale of money, oil, personal ties, and access. A NEWSWEEK investigation The call came at about 10 on the night of Sept. 12, some 36 hours after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. On the telephone was a […]

Tourism Minister Benny Elon demanded today that Prime Minister Sharon fire Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, following the latter’s speech in the United Nations yesterday. Asked if he can continue to be a member in a government whose representatives express public support for a Palestinian state, Elon said, “At present, I can, yes – but not […]

At every turn, regardless of what Israel has done to defend itself against intensifying Palestinian terrorism, Secretary of State Colin Powell or one of his underlings has been quick to launch a verbal broadside against the Jewish state. Whether it is the use of economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA), the pinpoint targeting of […]

Following a series of phone calls between the Prime Minister’s Office and Peres’ aides in New York, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres told the UN that “there is a consensus in Israel for a Palestinian state,” although he prefaced it by saying, “This is not the official policy of the State of Israel…” Earlier in the […]

Two years ago the Monitor, inspired by the political humorist P.J. O’Rourke, published an “Enemies List” of anti-Israel journalists. The column struck such a responsive chord, with readers nominating dozens of their own media enemies, that a couple of follow-ups to the original list soon appeared. Given the renewed controversy over media coverage of Israel […]

I think we really need to find a new name for CNN, or reinterpret its present acronym. Ever since its sister company AOL.com got a $2 billion investment by Sheik Alaweed, its needed one badly. Remember the sheik? He was the one in the red kafir looking like a little gnome who toured Ground Zero […]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak took a rather threatening tone today. Speaking at the dedication of a new bridge near Ismailia, he called on the U.S. to stop supplying Israel with “blind military aid.” Mubarak said that Israel’s neighbors may respond by stocking up on “weapons of mass slaughter – nuclear, chemical and biological” – and […]

Last Sunday, one of Israel’s ostensible “peace partners” picked up an M-16 rifle and opened fire on an Israeli passenger bus carrying children home from school. This “martyr” for the Palestinian cause, this “hero” of the Palestinian revolution – as Yasser Arafat’s state-controlled media will no doubt refer to him – succeeded in murdering two […]

A carbomb in the Machpelah Cave in Hevron? Almost. The GSS reported today that it apprehended, three weeks ago, a Tanzim terrorist cell from the Southern Hevron Hills that had planned to detonate just such a bomb at the holy site. The car was to be disguised as a UN vehicle, for which the group […]

Every war seems to have its comic side and in the United States many a campus is hosting a round-the-clock standup shtick these days, in the form of protests by the Bash-America Left. These pro-Taliban protesters are the same characters who tear up cities in the name of "anti-globalization" every few months, with their Nike […]