“As a rule of thumb in matters of the Middle East, be very skeptical of anything that Europe (fearful of terrorists, eager for profits, tired of Jews, scared of their own growing Islamic minorities) and the Arab League (a synonym for the autocratic rule of Sunni Muslim grandees and secular despots) cook up together. If […]

Perspectives Paper No. 21, September 11, 2006 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa.perspectives21.html Strategic Follies: Israel’s Mistakes in the Second Lebanese War Efraim Inbar Executive Summary: Israel’s political and military leadership was ill-prepared for the war against the Hizballah in the summer of 2006. A series of strategic mistakes on the part of Israeli leaders denied Israel a military victory […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva September 11, 2006 The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has produced a video documentary of Arab and Iranian views of the devastating Al-Qaeda terror attacks in New York and Washington five years ago. Narrated by well-known American actor Ron Silver and created by Interface Media Group, the video brings […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Jewish Press Wednesday, September 6, 2006 Defenseless under the night, Our world in stupor lies…. W.H. Auden Part One The poet Auden understood many things. He understood truly important things as only the poets can. He understood that humankind can always be found in pretty much the same imperiled condition. He […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva September 11, 2006 A New York Police Department detective has broken his silence about the connection between Rabbi Meir Kahane’s murderer and the terrorists who destroyed the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. Political activist Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered by an Egyptian-born al-Qaeda terrorist after he delivered […]

By: Aaron Klein Jewish Press Wednesday, September 6, 2006 A new Palestinian terror group aligned with the ideology of Al Qaeda has been formed in the Gaza Strip and may plan attacks not only against Israel but also against other “enemies of Islam and their collaborators among Arab regimes,” the group’s leader, Abu Muhammad, told […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva Septemeber 10, 2006 The indictment against Nadia Matar for her fiery letter to Disengagement Authority chief Yonatan Bassi has been expunged, implicitly citing politics in the original decision to indict Matar. The indictment against Women in Green chief Matar claimed that she had violated the ban on “insulting a public […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST September 8, 2006 This week we witnessed one of the greatest perfidies in Israel’s media history. Channel 10’s decision to broadcast both Hizbullah’s 18-year-old film of missing IAF navigator Ron Arad, who was taken hostage by Shi’ites in Lebanon in 1986, and Hizbullah’s video of its abduction of IDF soldiers […]

by Yoram Ettinger yoramtex@netvision.net.il August 25, 2006 1. Arab fertility rate – within Israel’s “Green Line” – has decreased from 4.7 children per woman in 2000 to 4.0 in 2005 and 3.7 during the first months in 2006. Arab fertility rate was 9.3 during the 1960s. Jewish fertility rate is creeping upward to 2.8 in […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva September 10, 2006 Tens of thousands of Israelis joined a protest against the Olmert government in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square Saturday night. The protest was under the banner of “State Commission of Inquiry Now!” The protest was organized by IDF reservists as well as the Movement for Quality Government (MQG), […]