The Palestinian Legislative Council will hold its vote of confidence – or, more likely, no-confidence – in the Abu Mazen government on Thursday. The Fatah organization, which was jointly founded by Arafat and Abu Mazen four decades ago, has come out publicly against Abu Mazen, and PLC Chairman Abu Ala says that Arafat and Abu […]

In the aftermath of the horrific post-hudna bus bombing of August 19 2003, it seems to be a particularly apropos time to consider the work of Ateret Cohanim/The Jerusalem Reclamation Project. The sanctity and safety of the Jewish People and the land of Israel is best preserved by those who love both, and who present […]

Over a ten-day period in summer 2001, three residents of Homesh, an isolated, secular West Bank settlement, were murdered. The first to be killed was Danny Yehuda. After shooting at his car, the terrorists came up to him and fired point-blank. Yehuda’s neighbor, Alex Briskin, traveled in the same automobile and saved himself by playing […]

The Ancestry of Fatah As we have seen in part one of this article,[1] the PLO was a radical, millenarian, terrorist organization from the day it was formed. However, it was not initially led by Yasser Arafat and it was not then the most radical Palestinian group. That title went to Fatah, which was led […]

Until last spring, I held what people call a pro-Palestinian position. Like many intellectuals, I had adopted Arafat’s cause, taking what I believed was a principled stand that blamed Israel for the conflict in the Middle East, and especially for the suffering of Palestinians. Because I come from a Catholic background, and because there is […]

Shalom Har-Melech, murdered on Friday while driving in the western Jordan Valley, was buried last night. He leaves behind a young wife, a 1-year-old son, a newborn baby daughter whom he never met – and ideals left unfulfilled. Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, who was murdered on Friday morning as he was driving with his wife along […]

There have been a number of significant developments withthe International Solidarity Movement’s national conference,originally scheduled to meet at Rutgers in October. See thebackground information at the end of this message for moredetails. The most important development — and a significant victoryfor us — is the planned move of the main conference to OhioState University. There […]