On June 19, 1967, in the wake of the Six Day War, the U.S. Secretary of Defense instructed the Joint Chiefs of Staff to present their “views, without regard to political factors, on the minimum territory” that Israel would be “justified in retaining in order to permit a more effective defense against possible conventional Arab […]

Though it is widely believed that economic agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are frozen because of the latter’s refusal to fulfill its basic obligation to fight terrorism – it’s not true. Only two weeks ago, on July 18, Israel transferred no less than 4.3 million shekels – almost $1 million – to the […]

JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz Friday gave the IDF a free hand to do whatever it deems necessary to eliminate the threat of Palestinian Kassam rocket attacks emanating from northern Gaza. However, the one step most military officials agree is the only one that would totally curb rocket launches taking over all of […]

The professor narrowed his eyes, leaned back in his chair and yawned. “You don`t really believe that do you?” I stared back perplexed. “What?” “That there is really some terrorist conspiracy poised against the United States.” There was a short silence. I took a deep breath, not sure if he was serious. But when I […]

In yet another Kassam rocket attack on Sderot this morning, an apartment suffered a direct hit – but the family had spent the night in Be’er Sheva, for fear of Kassam rockets. Sderot, only three kilometers from northern Gaza, has been rocketed by Arab-fired Kassams very intensively over the past few weeks – and the […]

Security cooperation between Israel and the United States reached a new plateau last week when their jointly developed Arrow-2 anti-ballistic missile system was successfully tested for the first time against an incoming Scud missile. The test of the world’s only operational missile killer system took place at the Point Mugu Sea Range off the coast […]

NEW YORK- The Bush administration has for the first time publicly acknowledged that the Palestinian Authoritys failure to capture Palestinian Arab murderers of Americans is the result of a deliberate political decision by the PA to refrain from capturing them. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (July 20, 2004) reported that David Satterfield, the second- in-charge at […]

A family of nine from Eli was saved this morning from a shooting attack just north of Ofrah, in the Binyamin Council region. Palestinian terrorists opened automatic fire at a car carrying a father and his eight children. The father continued driving until he reached Ofrah, where he reported that the bullets miraculously missed them. […]

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei recently visited Israel, trying to convince Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to scrap his country’s presumed nuclear arsenal as part of a regional peace agreement. In the best of all possible worlds, such a proposal might be reasonable. But in the chronically unstable Middle East \u2014 where several Islamist […]

“Two men look at life through bars; One sees mud, the other, stars.” These words, written by an anonymous poet, so accurately describe the opposing views of Israelis today, and indeed of Jews throughout the world, concerning the right of the Jewish people to settle everywhere in the Land of Israel. This burning issue has […]