September 21, 2006 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President George W. Bush for praising Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, as a moderate who is “willing to speak out and act on behalf of people who yearn for peace” and whom he “can’t thank […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Defenseless under the night, Our world in stupor lies…. W. H. Auden Part Three The rights of both Jews and Christians were openly trampled on by the Muslim conquerors of Jerusalem. Churches were made into mosques. Slaughterhouses were deliberately established near Jewish places of worship. Mosques were […]

Poll: Right person for PM post: Netanyahu 27% Olmert 7% YNET 21 September 2006 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3306587,00.html A poll conducted by Yedioth Ahronoth and the Dahaf Institute headed by Dr. Mina Tzemach, 27 percent of the public believe that Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is the most suitable person to head the government. He is followed by Israel […]

BY NATAN SHARANSKY LA Time In the summer of 2000, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin told me a story that I have been unable to get out of my mind. We were meeting in the Kremlin, and I raised the grave danger facing the world from the transfer of missile technology and nuclear material to […]

By: Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair is Israel’s best friend in Europe. And he’s not a very good friend. Immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S., Blair was instrumental in convincing President Bush to view the Palestinian jihad against Israel as a conflict completely […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva September 20, 2006 MK Effie Eitam (National Union-NRP) has repeated his call for the State of Israel to consider the transfer of hostile Arabs from Judea and Samaria. Speaking with Army Radio’s Razi Barkai Wednesday morning, Eitam was asked to explain his terming Israeli Arabs a “fifth column” and his […]

Lee Smith * From North Africa to Iran, Hizballah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah’s war has captured the imaginations of millions of Muslims. However, popularity of this sort in the Arab world seldom translates into anything substantive in political or strategic terms. * It is worth remembering that in Lebanon itself, a highly sectarian society, at […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva September 19, 2006 A brother and sister who long thought each other dead, have finally reunited for the first time since the 1940s, thanks to Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Holocaust Victims’ Names. The meeting was enabled thanks to the efforts of two grandchildren of the sister, Hilda nee Glazberg. […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva September 19, 2006 Though put on hold with the outbreak of fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, the Olmert administration’s plan to destroy Jewish hilltop communities is being put back on the table. Defense Minister Amir Peretz issued a directive Monday night authorizing IDF officials to destroy 90 homes and structures […]

The Gaza Strip was supposed to become a prosperous Palestinian land after Israeli troops pulled out. But a year later, life has worsened. BY RAVI NESSMAN AND IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Just a year ago, Gazans were euphoric with dreams of a renaissance that would turn their squalid, overpopulated patch […]