NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly condemned the first speech of Mahmoud Abbas, newly-elected leader of the Palestinian Authority where he said, ‘We offer this victory to the soul of brother martyr Yasir Arafat and to our martyrs (suicide bombers) and to 11,000 prisoners’ in Israeli jails. He also said, ‘the little […]

One Israeli civilian is dead and 3 IDF soldiers lay wounded in a terror attack in southern Gush Katif. Abu Mazen was elected as PA leader on Sunday, with many heralding his opposition to terror. The attack occurred in the community of Morag, which is located in a small enclave surrounded on three sides by […]

Just before Christmas, the New York Times figured out a way to blame Israel for the exodus of Christians from Bethlehem. This is called journalistic gymnastics. The story by Greg Myre began: In the town where Christians believe Christ was born, the Christians are leaving. Four years of violence, an economic free fall and the […]

The Associated Press is the sole source for the report. Official confirmation has not been received. The “Galilee Free” is the name of a small Israeli-Arab terror organization that was mentioned in connection with the abduction and murder of IDF soldier Oleg Shchaiat in July 2003, shortly before Benet went missing. The group was also […]

A new regulation set by IDF Armory Commander, Colonel Ehud David, stipulates that every soldier under his command is to be brought on a visit to the Kotel, the Western Wall. Every Sunday, IDF soldiers are brought to different sites around Israel to learn about the history and culture of the nation of Israel from […]

Today we think of Fallujah as the site of ongoing battles between courageous American forces and assorted enemy fighters. But back on the last day of March of this year, Fallujah was briefly known for the manifestly unheroic behavior of its Arab/Islamic combatants. Then it was the place where Islamic insurgents openly dramatized their long-cherished […]

The outcome of the election for president of the Palestinian Authority was never in doubt. Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat’s longtime accomplice — the two men co-founded Fatah, the largest terrorist faction within the PLO, in 1965 — was always going to win in a landslide. The three other candidates were never going to get more […]

Our respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books all quite recently written and published is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims now living […]

TEL AVIV ‘ Israel`s government is considering major changes in the military to facilitate a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in 2005. Officials said the changes could end more than 15 years of rising influence by Orthodox Jews and Israeli residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the military. […]

The Sharon Plan remains a threat to all of Israel. The Sharon Plan isn’t the Sharon Gaza Plan. It isn’t the Sharon Disengagement Plan. It’s the Sharon Retreat Plan. The people of Gush Katif made it an agenda item for all of the people of Israel when they brought buses from all over the country […]