Analysts say publicity about missiles could damage PM Olmert’s withdrawal plan. National Religious Party MK Effie Eitam: ‘Any West Bank withdrawal will be followed by rockets fired at major Israeli cities’ Aaron Klein, WND According to some intelligence officials, Israel has been deliberately minimizing the threat of rocket attacks by Palestinian terror groups in the […]

Fatah is a movement of blood sacrifice…. Our people gave the world a chance and unless the world takes this opportunity, violence and havoc will come. Othman Abu Gharbiya, deputy chief of the National and Political Guidance Bureau of Fatah (Al-Hayat al-Jadida) They will fight for Allah, and they will kill and be killed, and […]

It is a perverse human quality, but we are drawn to news stories about human tragedies. Some characteristics of such stories intensify the level of our interest: descriptions or pictures of gore or disfigurement; pictures of grieving loved ones; and some form of personal connection – no matter how indirect – to those at the […]

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Thursday, May 11, 2006 Dear Friends, At the presentation of his government before the newly elected Knesset on May 4th, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made the following shocking statements: “The continued dispersed settlement throughout Judea and Samaria creates an inseparable mixture of populations which will endanger the […]

Six healthy young men volunteered to participate in a clinical trial of a new drug in Great Britain last month. Minutes after being administered a minute dose of the drug, all six volunteers were in excruciating pain, their necks severely bloated, and their vital systems failing. Rushed to intensive care, they were ultimately saved, but […]

by Bennett Zimmerman, Roberta Seid and Michael L. Wise BESA Perspectives No. 15, May 7, 2006 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/perspectives15.html Executive Summary: Population statistics and predictions of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) are unreliable. A BESA study that subjects Palestinian demography to rigorous analysis shows that the 2004 Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza […]

If you want to know what the future is going to hold now that the Palestinian and Israeli elections are over, just take a peek at what’s been happing in the Gaza Strip lately. Although only a tiny splinter of land wedged between Israel and Egypt, the Gaza Strip is a densely populated piece of […]

by Wendy Leigh Even now, I can still remember the moment clearly. There is a loud banging on the front door of our family house in Burgundy, France. Two policemen stand on the doorstep. My mother’s face is pale and she is no longer smiling, but she doesn’t cry. She asks me, then aged 12, […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give Israel-hater playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. Kushner sits on the Board of Advisors […]

By Phyllis Chesler FrontPageMagazine.com | April 27, 2006 With Holocaust denial rampant among Islamists and Western intellectuals, the celebration of Holocaust Memorial Day becomes more than an affirmation of the truth of the tragedy. It is also an act of defiance and moral clarity. In the Islamic media, Israel and Jews are labeled and portrayed […]