by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com April 1, 2009 http://www.danielpipes.org/6257/arabs-israelis-and-underdogs “Who, a century back, would have imagined Jews making the better soldiers and Arabs the better publicists?” I asked back in 2005. A foremost example of the Arabs’ p.r. prowess lies in their ability to transform the map of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the early decades, maps […]

By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | 4/24/2009 Does terrorism work, meaning, does it achieve its perpetrators’ objectives? With terror attacks having become a routine and nearly daily occurrence, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the conventional wisdom holds that terrorism works very well. For example, the late Ehud Sprinzak of the Hebrew University ascribed the prevalence […]

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 22, 2009, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile quotes senior Israeli military circles as staggered by the discovery that US president Barack Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, including the services of Turkish military instructors. This was taken as further proof that the US president is deaf […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Arab terrorists attacked the Jewish community of Yitzhar in northern Samaria late Friday afternoon as the Sabbath was about to begin, lightly wounding three members of the first-response team before fleeing to a nearby Arab village. It was the third attack on a town in Judea and Samaria in the […]

by Yoram Ettinger (IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian issue was a deal-breaker during Israel-Egypt peace negotiation. In defiance of Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski – the “Palestine Firsters” – and in spite of Palestinian terrorist threats, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat introduced a Palestinian-bypass, thus concluding a peace accord. Their determination to overcome White House and Foggy […]

By: Louis René Beres Date: Friday, April 17 2009 Until now, the strategic issue of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity – the so-called “bomb in the basement” – has been kept squarely on the back burner. Today, however, time is quickly running out for the Jewish State, and Israel’s new/old prime minister absolutely must reconsider this burning […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A wave of terrorism is hitting the Jewish towns of Judea and Samaria, while soldiers and funding for security decrease. Among the incidents in the past two weeks: * The running-over of two policemen at the Hizme checkpoint north of Jerusalem; * the murder of a 13-year-old boy in Bat Ayin […]

by Dr. Eran Lerman, from Aish Hatorah Resources. Aish is the place for everything you want to know about Judaism. For permission to reprint, e-mail Aish at reprints@aish.com Roger Cohen should have a conversation with my daughter. There are moments when I try to imagine what a conversation would be like between Roger Cohen, the […]

[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Prime Minister Netanyahu makes a clear statement that those advocating a sovereign Palestinian state are unable to challenge. “We want for them to rule themselves, except for those powers that could threaten our security and our existence.” ] “We are currently formulating security-diplomatic policy. This process will conclude ahead of […]

By Leonard Getz & Steve Feldman, For The Bulletin, Philadelphia Published: Thursday, February 26, 2009 Which Pennsylvania institution do you think is doing the better job educating its students about Islam, West Chester University or the Municipal Police Officer Education & Training Commission? The answer lies in a comparison between a conference West Chester University […]