Foreign reports state that Israel transferred to the United States, shortly before the current war in Iraq, giant bulletproof D-9 bulldozers. The IDF uses them in its counter-terrorism war in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in missions such as plowing roadblocking-ditches and clearing paths for tanks. It appears that the Americans will use them in the […]

Two terrorist attacks were apparently thwarted in action over the past 24 hours. Members of the civil emergency team in Kiryat Arba noticed one or more terrorists trying to cut through the southern fence of Kiryat Arba, outside Hevron, last night. Even before the army had arrived on the scene, at least one of the […]

JERUSALEM — With American forces beginning their assault on Baghdad, their commanders would do well to take a close look at the hard-learned lessons of Israel’s experience with urban combat. Operation Defensive Shield, the Israeli antiterrorist strike last spring, generated plenty of controversy, but it also supplies a good model for military tactics. After a […]

Several projects and events are to take place in the United States in the coming weeks. Here, we highlight three of them. On Sunday, April 6, 2003, the 52nd Annual Israel Folk Dance Festival and Festival of the Arts will be held at the Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in New York City. The […]

NEW YORK- Although two weeks have passed since the appointment of a supposed “moderate” as the Palestinian Authority’s new prime minister, the PA’s anti-Jewish and anti-American terrorism and incitement are just as rampant as ever. On March 19, 2003, Arafat’s number two man, Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) became prime minister of the PA. While […]

A tiny Jewish outpost in the Mount of Olives cemetery stakes its claim to become a permanent settlement. A group of young Jewish men have been living for several months in “Ma’aleh Hazeitim,” the official name of a tiny Jewish settlement on the outskirts of the Arab East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al Amud. Only […]

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 […]

The discovery of yet another Israeli-Arab terrorist ring shook Israel today – although it appeared that the shock was somewhat less intense than that which Israel suffered last August when a gang of Israeli-Arab Hamas members from the Jerusalem area was uncovered. Today’s shock was also apparently less powerful than the one experienced in October […]

Until now, fears of a nuclear war in the Middle East have generally focussed on Iraq. Yet, when the current war against Saddam Hussein is concluded, it is highly unlikely that Iraq will be in any position to acquire nuclear weapons. A new Arab state of “Palestine,” on the other hand, would have decidedly serious […]

Infrastructures Minister Yosef Paritzky (Shinui) said yesterday that he plans to cut off electricity and water to the “illegal outposts” in Judea and Samaria. When he first took office several weeks ago, he turned to Peace Now and asked for a detailed list of the allegedly illegal outposts. He then turned to his underlings in […]