Some say that we are re-living the 1930s. I disagree. Today, the danger to Jews is far graver and more complex than it was in the pagan or medieval-Christian world, or during World War Two. Today, anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American propaganda has gone global. It is visually masterful, technologically sophisticated, and available around the clock, […]

NEW YORK- There is new evidence that Egypt is permitting and facilitating the flow of weapons to Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza, and the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to pressure Egypt to change its policy. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “It is surprising and disappointing that the […]

Yet another emergency meeting will be held in Gush Katif on Sunday, in light of the apparent onset of the withdrawal/expulsion process. On the agenda will be the reports of the beginning of negotiations for financial compensation and other indications that the withdrawal is being implemented. Promotional literature for the mass gathering states, “Secretly, while […]

Another moving ceremony marking yet the latest stage in reclaiming Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem was held yesterday in the area known as the Yemenite Village. Located near the City of David, below and just to the southeast of the Temple Mount, the area was home to many Jewish families, mostly from Yemen, from the 1880’s […]

The overwhelming feeling one has when traveling through the beautiful springtime mountains and valleys of Israel, visiting the residents of Gush Katif/Gaza, Judea and Samaria, is that those who are governing Israel have a great disconnect from the land and the people. Prime Minister Sharon doesnt understand that his proclamations about making areas of Israel […]

A timetable for the uprooting of Jews from Gaza shows that the process will begin not in nine months’ time, as this week’s Cabinet decision indicated, but rather in two months. According to the document, prepared by the National Security Council, the first Jews will be able to leave Gaza voluntarily as early as August […]

> Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli Arab, is the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. He previously served as a senior writer for the Jerusalem Report, and a correspondent for Al-Fajr. He has produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC and many other networks, […]

What really happened ten years ago, in Hebron, at the Cave of Machpela – the Tomb of the Patriarchs – or, as the Arabs call it, the Ibrahimi Mosque? The short answer everyone “knows,” is that Dr. Baruch Goldstein carried out a massacre on the Jewish holiday of Purim, February 25, 1994. But a new […]

World War II to the Present: Lieutenant Frances Slanger: Jewish Nurse Killed In World War II On the morning of October 21, 1944, Lieutenant Frances Slanger of the U.S. Army Nurses Corps mailed a letter to STARS AND STRIPES telling the GIs how proud she was of them. That evening her unit was the target […]

Israel has just completed an essential defensive operation against terrorists in Rafah. Although televised images of this Gaza operation suggested cruelty and indiscriminate action by Israeli forces, exactly the opposite is true. By deliberately placing young Arab children in the front of large mobs that advanced menacingly upon Israeli soldiers, Palestinian leaders openly committed major […]