As the world’s most important daily newspaper, the New York Times is disproportionately influential in framing the public and diplomatic discourse on many issues, both in the U.S. and beyond. This is particularly true with regard to the Middle East, given how much space it allocates to the subject. One of the great myths of […]

I n an abrupt change of course, several Saudi-financed charities and corporations targeted by the Department of Justice in a terrorism investigation have asked the government not to unseal a federal search-warrant affidavit, after originally demanding that the affidavit be made public. In a filing on Friday with the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia, […]

A number of olim chadashim arrived on Thursday at the dawn of Gulf War II. According to the Jewish Agency, hundreds of new olim are expected in Israel within the coming days. Next Tuesday, 60 people from Ethiopia are scheduled to come on Aliyah. A couple from New Jersey filled with enthusiasm and excitement, arrived […]

The so-called “road map” for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord hastily unveiled by President Bush last Friday may have been a politically timely effort to help British Prime Minister contend with mounting domestic opposition to his courageous stance in favor of war with Iraq. If so, it will join a long list of putative prescriptions for […]

Countless numbers of Israelis spent the hours before the onset of the American assault on Iraq opening their gas mask kits, reading the instructions, and carefully trying them on themselves and on their children. The IDF’s Homefront Command issued the instructions to do so last night, less than six hours before the 48-hour American ultimatum […]

NEW YORK- Official Palestinian Authority Television has broadcast a sermon calling for the destruction of America and Israel –yet another blatant violation of the conditions that President Bush established in his June 24, 2002 speech. President Bush said in his June 24, 2002 speech that the Palestinian Arabs must “end incitement to violence in official […]

I’m mad as hell! After the feeling of helplessness engendered from jumping from sleep at 2 in the morning into a gas mask in a plastic-sealed room, that is the primary feeling. What does it feel like? Visualize a scene from a science fiction or George Orwell movie. Mothers and fathers sit in a small […]

Despite the fact that Israeli defense sources have been saying for months that the likelihood of missiles being fired at Israel is low, and despite U.S. evaluations that Saddam’s forces may use chemical weapons against the Americans – but not the Israelis – Israeli preparations for war continue apace. Air travel: Israeli airlines will continue […]

“Just wars,” said Hugo Grotius, the 17th Century founder of modern international law, “arise from our love of the innocent.” Recognizing this, President Bush is approaching war with Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from unleashing massive crimes of war, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. Identified in the 1945 Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, […]

An Israeli company will now be producing power for Nicaraguan consumers. The company, Ormat, has invested 35 million dollars in the rehabilitation of a Nicaraguan power station, but expects revenues from the station to be 13 million dollars annually. In March 1999 Ormat signed a 15 year Concession and Power Purchase Agreement with ENEL, the […]