A poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israeli Jews carried out by Smith Research & Consulting on 29-30 November and sponsored by ZOA – The Zionist Organization of America – finds that 67% oppose carrying out a significant unilateral withdrawal from Judea and Samaria if it is not possible to advance in negotiations […]

Emulating the blunder of their patriarch’s elder brother Esau, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima Party Monday said Israel has no choice but to sell its birthright for the “bowl of pottage” it believes will ease the nation’s current ills. “The people of Israel have a national and historical right to all of Israel, and […]

Anti-Israel violence continues in the PA-controlled city of Shechem, in the Shomron. Palestinian terrorists fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza, causing no injuries. Shechem (Nablus), has long been known as one of the Palestinian Authority’s terrorism capitals. Last night, an IDF force identified three Arab terrorists standing on the side of the city’s southern bypass […]

New York – Yesterday, Palestinians fired Qassam rockets and mortars at Israeli population centers in a serious attempt to murder Jews and destroy Jewish property; yet, despite promises by senior Israeli officials months ago to use overwhelming force if terrorism continues after the Gaza withdrawal, Israel’s only response was to fire back at empty fields […]

If the opponents of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan didn’t derail anything, the failure can’t be blamed on Helen Freedman. Freedman, the tireless executive director of Americans For a Safe Israel, was practically a one-woman opposition movement this past spring and summer. She organized rallies, wrote press releases, organized missions to Israel and the territories and […]

Gush Etzion residents are deciding whether to continue to negotiate with the authorities on the route of the Partition Wall, or to oppose the wall’s construction altogether. Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, one of the region’s first communities reestablished after the Six-Day-War, announced last month that it rejects the building of a wall around the Etzion Bloc […]