The root cause of terrorism is not poverty but autocracy and tyranny. A new study ranks most Muslim nations low in terms of liberty. Although Islam is not inherently incompatible with freedom, new movements of radical Islam and obsessive hatred toward Israel very likely have kept democracy at bay. This lack of freedom nurtures rage […]

NEW YORK- A senior official of Yasir Arafat’s Palestine National Council has admitted that despite Arafat’s promises, the PLO National Covenant has never been changed. The 1993 Oslo accords required Arafat to remove from the Covenant all clauses calling for violence or the destruction of Israel. Thirty of the 33 clauses would have to be […]

Two persons, including a mother and an infant, were killed in the terrorist attack in Moshav Chamra, in the central Jordan Valley. At about 8:00pm Wednesday night, terrorist gunfire was directed at a patrol in the community. Two terrorists infiltrated the community in the area of the hothouses. A shootout ensued while reinforcements responded. Forces […]

Israel’s General Security Service released a report last week recommending that the restrictions banning Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and praying there be lifted. With this recommendation, the General Security Service comes down on the side of justice. Israel’s Declaration of Independence guarantees all people the right to worship as they see fit, and […]

An Arab mob of some 500 in Jenin, east of Hadera, murdered three Arabs today who were convicted in a PLO court of killing PLO police officer Osama Kamal. The three convicts told the judge that they had killed Kamal, because he had killed Arabs suspected of cooperating with Israel in the 1980’s. The court […]

Arabs opened fire on an Israeli vehicle this afternoon seriously wounding 46-year-old Safed resident Moshe Vaknin in the stomach. The incident occurred in Hawara, 25 miles north of Jerusalem. Vaknin continued driving several minutes to the approach road to Yitzhar, where he collapsed. A military helicopter transported him to Tel Aviv’s Tel HaShomer-Sheba Hospital where […]

In the wake of President Bush’s stern warning to state sponsors of terror, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel felt the time was ripe to open direct truce talks with a troika of Palestinian leaders other than Yasir Arafat. After Palestinian sources leaked word of their first meeting in Jerusalem last Wednesday night, Sharon felt […]

Can words be used as a weapon? The Palestinian Authority seems to think so. In mantra-like fashion, their leaders and spokespersons continue to attribute the incessant violence in the area to the “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza. Just give us back our land, they say, and peace will surely be attained. Terrorists kill. […]

Arab terrorists placed a powerful explosive outside a wall around the Jewish community of Kfar Darom in Gaza on Friday night, hoping to enter through the resulting gap. The three threw grenades and began firing at the soldiers in the nearby position, but the latter repelled them. One soldier was lightly wounded by shrapnel and […]

Many Arab columnists are harshly critical of the U.S. for its treatment of Al-Qa’ida and Taliban captives at Guantanamo. Renowned Egyptian author and columnist for the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram, Anis Mansour, describes the treatment of the Al-Qa’ida and Taliban prisoners as ‘worse than prisoners under the Nazis.’ Following are excerpts from his article: “The […]