Housing Minister Natan Sharansky calls it a new version of the Oslo Agreement – but that did not stop Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer from agreeing to undertake the “Gaza and Bethlehem First” agreement with officials of the Palestinian Authority. At a meeting with Muhammad Dahlan last night, it was agreed that Israel would begin easing […]

This article, written by the late Eric Hoffer 34 years ago, is uncannily contemporary. Some truths never change.  Hoffer was a Non-Jewish American social philosopher.  He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely […]

The world’s media is suddenly all ecstatic at the fact that Generalissimo Amram Mitzna has decided to toss his kafiya into the race for Labor Party chief. Because Mitzna is to the left of the current party chief, ‘Fuad’ Ben-Eliezer, and indeed is to the left of Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin, the Jewish anti-survivalist […]

Safety and security — that´s what´s on the minds of American Jews these days. Jewish newspapers are replete with stories of stepped up security patrols at Jewish institutions and of sky rocketing insurance bills for synagogues, schools and JCCs because of the perceived security threat. Yet, the fear about security in the US pales when […]

The latest flare-up in the Middle East is once again drawing attention to the plight of millions of destitute Palestinian living in squalid refugee camps. Arabs claim to be outraged by the Palestinians’ plight, but in reality they have contributed little to the welfare of the Palestinian people. The humanitarian tragedy of the Palestinian refugees […]

The daily newspaper Al-Hayat published an article by Dr. ‘Adel Awadh, an Iraqi physician who worked in a hospital where the ears of military defectors were surgically removed at the orders of Saddam Hussein. Awadh fled Iraq to avoid performing such surgeries. The following are excerpts of his account: “The problem started in 1994 when […]

Safety and security — that´s what´s on the minds of American Jews these days. Jewish newspapers are replete with stories of stepped up security patrols at Jewish institutions and of sky rocketing insurance bills for synagogues, schools and JCCs because of the perceived security threat. Yet, the fear about security in the US pales when […]

A group of women from Shilo, Maaleh Levonah and Eli (Binyamin-region communities north of Jerusalem) who took over a building in the village of Luban a-Sharkiye this morning evacuated it on their own volition – for the second time in a week. The women took over the house in protest of the deteriorating security situation […]

For the second day in a row, Israel’s high court yesterday prevented the army from carrying out government-approved measures to deter terror. Justice Dalia Dorner blocked the IDF from razing the Gaza home of the terrorist who killed a woman and her granddaughter in a suicide bombing in Petach Tikva this past May. The army […]

Palestinian Media Watch has provided the transcript of an interview from PATV with Palestinian Authority minister of Posts and Communication, and member of the PA legislative council, Immad Faluggi. In the interview, Faluggi gave voice to the rank anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism that is at the bottom of PA policy, such as it is. The interview […]