Under the title “Relations with Israel,” columnist Hazem Abd Al-Rahman, in the leading Egyptian Government daily Al-Ahram, calls for developing Egyptian-Israeli relations and dropping the negative attitude towards Israel. The following are excerpts from the article: [1] “Egyptian-Israeli relations occupy an important place in Egypt’s foreign policy and the first serious signs of openness in […]

NEW YORK- While Western media reports are praising the statement by PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas (.Abu Mazen.) opposing the use of .live weaponry. by Palestinian Arabs, little attention has been paid to the fact that in the same statement, Abbas recommended a revival of tactics such as stabbings, firebombings, and stonings. In an interview with […]

Official Hamas websites being hosted in the United States were shut down yesterday following inquiries by WorldNetDaily for an article about the terror group’s online activities in Western countries. Hamas has been using the Internet . through service companies in the U.S., Eastern Europe and East Asia . to maintain communication with its own networks, […]

The Labor Party has accepted the Likud’s final generous coalition talks offer – eight ministers, three deputy ministers, and more – and the two parties are expected to sign a coalition agreement. The United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party continues to negotiate with the Likud over the conditions necessary for it to join the coalition as […]

AT HIS DEATH, Yasser Arafat was viewed in Europe–always his most important constituency outside the Middle East–as the humble and pitiable leader of the dispossessed Palestinian people. But this image does little justice to the magnitude of his achievements. Arafat was the father of modern terrorism, and leaves behind a people ruined almost beyond salvation, […]

NEW YORK- While some in the West have been praising PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas as a ‘moderate,’ Abbas spent part of last week in Damascus holding friendly meetings with the leaders of groups that are on the official U.S. list of terrorist groups, and who call for Israel’s destruction, and with the pro-terrorist Syrian dictator […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon delivered the keynote address at the Herzliya Conference Thursday evening. As he promoted his withdrawal plan, Gazan terrorists launched four mortar shells. Sharon spoke about the benefits of his proposed Gaza withdrawal/expulsion plan, using language reminiscent of that which accompanied the 1993 Oslo Accords. ‘We will reach a time of tranquility […]

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), one of the most adroit and deceptive Islamist groups in America, is preparing its fourth annual convention, which will be held in Long Beach, CA on December 18. It is beyond predictability that this unfortunate event, with participation by some of America’s worst apologists for and adherents of Islamist […]

Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when an American district court found three Muslim organizations and one individual, mostly based in the Chicago area, guilty of funding Hamas and fined them an astonishing US$156 million. The four were found liable for their roles in the murder of an American teenager, David Boim, on […]

Four Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire Wednesday evening while travelling on the Kissufim Road – the main vehicular artery serving Gush Katif residents. Terrorists opened fire on Jewish passenger vehicles just west of the Mor Bridge, at the Gush Katif junction, near the entrance to the cluster of Jewish communities in Gaza. The attack […]