It is a tribute to the hypocrisy and duplicity of the UN that Syria assumed the Presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. After passing numerous resolutions condemning terrorism in the strongest possible terms, the Security Council conferred its highest office upon one of the world’s best known state sponsors of terrorism. […]

An IDF force found and destroyed yet another arms-smuggling tunnel in southern Gaza last night. One of the commanding officers of the tunnels-searching unit said that the network of tunnels is the “oxygen of the Palestinian Authority’s entire system of war materials… Day and night, we are constantly engaged in searching for these tunnels, including […]

Now that a Palestinian state is altogether likely, questions will be raised concerning demilitarization. Could Israel’s security be adequately maintained if the new Arab state were demilitarized? Could the obvious dangers to Israel of another neighboring enemy state be reduced or eliminated with such action? Would the authoritative expectations of international law be able to […]

(Washington, D.C.): The FBI’s depiction of the murderous 4th of July attack at Los Angeles International (LAX) must have struck most Americans as utterly bizarre. After all, it occurred on a day when the entire country was on alert for terrorist attacks; it was conducted by an Egyptian immigrant, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, armed with two […]

(IsraelNN.com) Two soldiers were wounded in the bomb attack earlier tonight near the entrance to the Gush Etzion community of Efrat, at Checkpoint 130. An army patrol was inspecting a new unpaved road leading to an area industrial park when the explosive device was detonated. Two soldiers were injured. According to EMS personnel on the […]

CAIRO – The United Nations yesterday released a report that said Arab nations had squandered the wealth generated by oil and deprived millions of their people of basic political freedoms. Researched during the past 18 months by scholars and experts from the 22 Arab League countries, the report is the first of its kind written […]

On June 7, 2002, the Kuwaiti *Al-Watan daily* published the following report: “Yesterday, Al-Watan received documents from private sources in the Cairo branch of an Arab bank showing that *Yasser Arafat* had deposited in his name $5.1 million into a personal account. According to sources, this is theft of Arab aid funds allocated to the […]

Two months ago I was sitting in a Berkeley, California City Council meeting listening to speakers and Council members argue over a proposed resolution to prohibit the City of Berkeley from doing business with Israeli companies or American companies that do business with Israeli companies. The resolution was created in response to the supposed massacre […]

“This is the most exciting thing in the world,” said one woman witnessing the deplaning of almost 400 new olim from North America in Ben Gurion International Airport at this hour. “They just blew the shofar…” She is among hundreds of people who came this morning to greet a special El Al flight, carrying close […]

The London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi published a letter to the editor signed by a California resident, Muhammad Amin Salameh, under the headline “If the Americans Have Their Heroes, We Have Ours.” The letter read: “To the Editor: Blessings,” “Those Americans and others whom most of the peoples of the world consider war criminals, movies […]