That the predicament of the Palestinian Arabs is lamentable no one can dispute. After a half-century as a stateless people, they are among history’s orphans. Generations of their young, born in the refugee camps, have no profession but violence, no ambition but martyrdom, no creed but rage. Militant Islamists have come very late to the […]

This resolution was sponsored by Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) and passed the House of Representatives 389 to 11. It received a unanimous consent vote in the Senate. Summary H.Con.Res. 280 expresses the sense of Congress condemning the vicious terrorist attacks resulting in the death of 26 and the wounding of at least 175 innocent people […]

(IsraelNationalNews.com) A Jewish community in central Gaza was targeted by mortars on Friday night. Army positions in the area were also attacked with terrorist gunfire. There were no injuries. Air force helicopter gunships responded to the mortar attacks, targeting terrorist targets in southern Gaza. Additional mortar attacks without injuries were reported on Saturday afternoon and […]

Last Saturday night, moments after the terrorist bombing in Jerusalem, the Terror Victims Association responded to the emergency. Four cars with teams of volunteers rushed food and drink to the hospitals for the families of the victims and the medical staff. Volunteers worked all night alongside the trauma teams. Others sat with families outside of […]

Egypt is crying poverty.Tourism is down by 60% and its FY00 trade deficit was $9.35 billion.Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said this week, “We have been suffering from these fallouts of the terrorist acts that took place in the United States, and we are asking our American friends to help us – not by new […]

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said today that the Palestinian Authority has arrested “no more than 2-3 significant terrorists – and even they are being held in hotel-like conditions… The PA stands behind and creates this terrorism, and we are trying to get it to leave that path and to bring it back to the only […]

The Arabs do not want to destroy Israel in order to have a state for the Palestinians in order to destroy Israel. This twist of logic, as echoed by Reb Chaim in a different context, holds a fundamental insight into the conflict in which the Jewish people are presently engaged. The very name “Palestine” hold […]

Among the lessons that should be drawn from the fall of Kabul is the fact that the world owes Ariel Sharon and Israel an apology. I say this because of the massacres now being calmly and indifferently reported from Afghanistan. When the Northern Alliance took Kabul and other areas, it made short shrift of any […]

Despite the official designation of Yasser Arafat as the head of a “terrorism-supporting entity,” Foreign Minister Shimon Peres spoke with him today – twice. “He called me,” Peres told reporters today, “and said that he can’t make arrests because Israel is stopping him from moving his forces. I told him that it’s now up to […]

The U.S.’s decision not to interrupt its bombing in Afghanistan during the month of Ramadan gave rise to harsh criticism in the Arab and Muslim world. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s comments that Muslims had, throughout history, fought during Ramadan, led to a wave of protest in the Arab media, in which he was […]