Editor`s Note: In July 1998, Daniel Gordis moved with his wife, Elisheva, and their three children to Jerusalem for a one-year fellowship at the Mandel Foundation. A few months after the Gordises arrived in Israel, they decided to stay permanently.) In New York last month I had occasion to be interviewed on National Public Radio. […]

Over the past two years, the Palestinian Authority has conducted a campaign to encourage the cold blooded murder of 682 men, women and children throughout the land of Israel. As a result, the IDF has been forced to conduct operations in the areas controlled and protected by the Palestinian Authority, to locate, arrest and neutralize […]

Two IDF soldiers were seriously wounded this morning when a Hizbullah-placed roadside bomb exploded near their outpost on Israel’s northern border near Moshav Zar’it. One soldier was wounded in his legs, and his colleague suffered serious wounds to the head; they were both operated on today in Rambam Hospital in Haifa. The bomb went off […]

The Yesha Council, representing the Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, has once again called on U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer to stop intervening in Israeli life. Kurtzer, speaking at the third annual Herzliya Conference last night, said that the “settlers [of Yesha] do not represent the national consensus in Israel,” and added […]

Early this morning, IDF tanks and ground troops, backed up by IAF helicopters, entered the Bureij district of Gaza City. The incursion, which was meant to secure the capture or killing of Islamic Jihad terrorist Gema’el Isma’il, led to an intense gun battle between Arab gunmen and IDF soldiers. During the course of the battle, […]

While I boarded my El-Al flight last week, holding on to Chana and a bag full of toys, books and food, I couldn’t help but think of what I was leaving behind. Just one day earlier a terrorist had blown himself up near a busy gax station in Ariel killing three soldiers and wounding many […]

When I was in college, an Armenian American acquaintance told me about his grandfather’s obsession with the Turkish genocide against his people in the early part of the 20th century. To a comment of “nice weather, today,” the old man habitually replied “What does it matter since our people were slaughtered?” I wonder if I […]

Prime Minister Sharon, addressing the third annual Herzliya Conference last night, reiterated his support for U.S. President Bush’s “road map” plan, including a Palestinian state, and set out the conditions under which he sees it unfolding. He began by noting the PA’s campaign of terrorism, “meticulously planned and prepared by the PA chairman” Yasser Arafat, […]

A communiqué in which the Al-Qa’ida organization took responsibility for the Mombasa, Kenya terror attacks was first posted on the “News about the Jihad and the Mujahideen” forum of the Islamist website www.mojahedoon.net by Abu Shihab Al-Qandahari, the forum’s deputy moderator. Al-Qandahari posted another communiqué in which he threatened Americans with a terror attack on […]

Supporters of Palestinian terror violence against Israelis argue passionately that the ends (Palestinian “independence”) justify the means (murderous attacks upon civilians). Leaving aside ordinary ethical standards – everyday standards by which this argument is manifestly indecent – the ends can NEVER justify the means under authoritative international law. Quite the contrary. For more than two […]