Relatives and athletes joined in a memorial service Sunday for the 11 Israelis killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, standing in a moment of silence, listening to songs and speeches and promising not to forget the victims. Amid extraordinary security and in cool, drizzly weather, 25 relatives of the athletes who were killed attended the […]

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that international economic sanctions, U.S. military air patrols and other measures over the past decade have largely failed to contain Iraq’s potential for menacing other nations. His remarks at a Pentagon news conference represented one of the most emphatic rationales offered so far by a senior administration official […]

Prejudice, like politics, is local. It breeds like mosquitoes beside a stagnant pond where the bites need scratching. That's why every wave of immigration ushers in its own form of prejudice, because the latest ethnic group to arrive competes for jobs with those locals who are the most economically insecure.      There are exceptions, of course, […]

The following column was written by Marla Bennett, the San Diego woman who was one of the victims of the July 31 terrorist attack at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She wrote this piece in May for the Avi Chai Bookshelf, a project for participants of Birthright Israel. Each morning when I leave my apartment building, […]

WASHINGTON – In a carefully-worded rebuke of Israeli policy, State Department spokesman Phillip Reeker said Tuesday that while Israel had a right to self-defense, it should consider the consequences of demolitions and other actions that may “undermine trust and confidence” among Palestinians. “Taking punitive actions against innocent people won’t solve Israel’s security problems,” Reeker said. […]

Al-Watan is an Arabic-language “national weekly Arab-American newspaper” published in Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, whose mission is to provide Arab and Muslim Americans “with the most current, valuable, reliable, and informative news on political, economic, social, cultural, and educational issues, which concern the Arab-American community in their relations with the […]

Since last Wednesday, at least 18 persons have been killed and more than 150 wounded in a new wave of Palestinian bombings and shootings directed at Israeli civilian targets. The deadliest attack occurred Sunday, when at least nine persons were killed and nearly 50 wounded in the bombing of a bus near Safed, in northern […]

   A single Israeli missile successfully aimed at Hamas terror-monger Salah Shehade on July 22, 2002 also killed 15 Palestinian civilians. For these collateral deaths, Israel has come under withering international criticism, including claims that the action was a crime under international laws protecting civilians in occupied land.      Such legal claims are inaccurate. As part […]

AT SOME POINT ISRAELIS are likely to start asking themselves: Why should we continue to let TV reporters and news photographers take pictures of terrorist murder scenes? Of dead and maimed Israelis, shocked bystanders, grieving families, blood in the streets? Who gave TV cameras the right to be there in the first place? Exactly why […]

If there was ever any doubt about the intentions of the murderous machine known as Hamas, a comment by one of its leaders following last Wednesday´s cafeteria bombing at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in which at least seven people were killed and dozens injured, should dispel any lingering illusions.      Crowing about the innocent dead and […]