A recent article by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency featured Izzeldin Abuelaish, the only Palestinian Arab doctor at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel. The article praised him for supposedly promoting peace. The article should also have mentioned that Dr. Abulelaish recently declared, at a New York symposium on terrorism, that “it is a myth that […]

The Saudi government press has recently been sharply critical of the U.S. The criticism is in response to the American press’ coverage of Saudi Arabia’s reaction to September 11 and also focused on the “Clash of Civilizations” between Islam and the West. Following are excerpts from the Saudi media: Responses to U.S. Media Criticism of […]

Last June, Palestinian television broadcast a sermon in a Gaza mosque in which the imam, Ibrahim Madi, made the following statement: “God willing, this unjust state Israel will be erased; this unjust state the United States will be erased; this unjust state Britain will be erased.” The sheikh’s gentle homily comes again to mind as […]

Liberal Tunisian columnist Al-‘Afif Al-Akhahdar discusses the role of Islamic religious rulings [Fatwas] in incitement to terrorism in an article published in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat, titled “Is There A Response to a Fatwa Inciting to Crime?” Following are excerpts from the article: Fatwas Permit Murder “In the bin Laden video [released by the […]

(IsraelNN.com) An al-Qaeda reconnaissance agent, apparently the attempted shoe-bomb terrorist Richard Reid, was in Israel and prepared a detailed report on targets for terrorist assault in here. The information on the terrorist “casing” of Israeli targets was revealed by the Wall Street Journal, which was praised by US Attorney General John Ashcroft during his press […]

(Washington, D.C.): The front page of today’s New York Times confirms that what has been predictable — and predicted — for some time has eventuated: The Islamic Republic of Iran is not, as President Bush put it today, a “positive force” in the war on terrorism. It is, instead, part of the problem, “against us” […]

A school bus traveling between Chermesh and Baka el-Sharkiya, east of Hadera, was attacked by terrorist gunfire this morning; the bus was damaged… Late this afternoon, PA forces opened fire on an IDF outpost near Gadid in Gush Katif… Shortly before that, terrorists shot and damaged an Israeli vehicle not far from Karnei Shomron; IDF […]

Arab terrorists shot and killed an Israeli motorist this morning near the northern Shomron community of Sa-Nur, between Jenin and Shechem. Unbeknownst to them, the victim was an Arab with Israeli citizenship – Dasis Shahada, 30; they had been misled by the yellow Israeli license plates of his rented car. He lived in the north […]

NEW YORK – The State Department has demanded that Israel refrain from ever entering Palestinian Authority-controlled territory in pursuit of terrorists, but the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out that the Oslo accords specifically permit Israel to enter PA territory in pursuit of terrorists. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said (New York Times, Oct. […]