Four top Hamas officials living in eastern Jerusalem will no longer enjoy the benefits of Israeli citizenship. At least one of the four was arrested in an anti-terror security sweep this week. A 30-day ultimatum to choose between terrorist membership and Israeli residency expired at midnight on Thursday for the four Hamas Palestinian Authority legislators. […]

Since replacing Ariel Sharon in office last December, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has refused to permit a large-scale IDF incursion into the Gaza Strip. The hundreds of rockets, mortars and missiles that have rendered the Western Negev’s population and economy hostage to Palestinian rocket crews could not budge him from his refusal to take the […]

No one should be surprised at Israel’s aggressive assault into Gaza this week, and it’s about more than just trying to rescue a kidnapped soldier. This is good old-fashioned payback Middle Eastern style. For more than a month, Palestinian terrorists have been raining rockets into southern Israel communities. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had to teach […]