The distraught father of a young homicide bomber complained to an Arab newspaper that terrorists are trying to recruit his other son to blow himself up – while their leaders protect their own sons. The father, identified as Abu Saber M.G., wrote the London-based al-Hayat newspaper “with a languishing heart and with eyes that have […]

Tensions are again high at the Gilad Farm near Kedumim, and hundreds of people – mostly youth – streamed to the site late this morning. On Wednesday, over 1,000 people showed up to resist the army’s plans to dismantle and uproot the site, but left peacefully – for the most part – after landowner Moshe […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and US President George Bush emerged from their 45-minute Oval Office meeting yesterday in good spirits. In his remarks afterwards to reporters, Bush put to rest – at least publicly – speculation that he was pressuring Israel not to respond militarily to an Iraqi attack. “If Iraq attacks Israel tomorrow, I […]

THE BUSH PLAN: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” “elect new leaders not compromised by […]

(Washington, D.C.): There has been a subtle change in the unsolicited advice George W. Bush is receiving from prominent figures concerned that he is determined to lead the Nation to war against Iraq. The current fashion is to agree that Saddam Hussein’s misrule and his megalomaniacal pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) should be […]

While well over 1,000 people waited tensely at the Gilad Farm near Kedumim for army forces to begin dismantling the site this morning, Moshe Zar – legal owner of the land on which the farm is built – suddenly made a surprising announcement: “We will leave peacefully.” People had been continuing to arrive all morning […]

Anyone who follows the reaction of members of the national camp regarding the evacuation of "meahazim" (outpost settlements) is witness to an interesting phenomenon: almost everybody strongly condemns and attacks Minister of Defense Fuad Ben-Eliezer, with not a single word of criticism against the Prime Minister! As if Sharon is not involved. We are being […]

Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told Army Radio today that, “security permitting,” he plans to withdraw IDF forces from Hevron by the end of the week. The move would come as part of the new “Judea First” plan introduced by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. An extension of the failed “Gaza and Bethlehem First” plan, “Judea First” […]

On November 25, 2001, a prison uprising outside the Northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif left approximately 400 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters dead, under what some have termed questionable circumstances. Human rights observers called for an investigation, claiming that a large number of those killed may have been summarily executed by members of the U.S. backed […]

Since Iraq’s August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the 1991 Gulf War that followed, Arab diplomats at the United Nations have charged the international community with a policy of “double standards” regarding UN actions against Iraq for failing to comply with UN Security Council resolutions. Thus, in the debate leading up to the adoption of […]