Despite its victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections, Hamas remains the same old organization committed to Israel’s destruction. Hopes that an election campaign would force the terrorist group to moderate were repeatedly dashed by Hamas leaders, who made little attempt during the run-up to elections to hide the group’s ambition to destroy Israel. News consumers might […]

Reactions to the lopsided Hamas victory over Fatah last week in the Palestinian Authority elections divided into three. Some, like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee expressed dismay, worried about Hamas openly boasting of its goal to destroy the Jewish state, seeing this as the end of the peace process. Others, such as former president […]

While U.S. President George Bush says the U.S. won’t provide funding for a Hamas-led PA, Ehud Olmert’s government is apparently planning to forward tax monies to the PA this week. President Bush, speaking on CBS News, said “aid packages won’t go forward” for the Palestinian Authority if Hamas does not renounce terrorism or its commitment […]

Yossi Zur: Award to “Paradise Now” legitimizes murder of my son Award to “Paradise Now” legitimizes murder of my son By Yossi Zur Last night the Palestinian movie “Paradise Now” won the Golden Globe award. The movie shows the route that two young Palestinians take to become suicide murderers, up until the minute they board […]

New York – Veteran prize-winning Israeli journalist for the Ha’aretz newspaper, Danny Rubenstein, told a group of Jewish leaders discussing the Palestinian elections that Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria last year boosted Hamas’ standing in Palestinian society and strongly helped Hamas win this election. Rubenstein’s statement was made in response to a […]

by Ellen W. Horowitz Arutz Sheva Jan 29, ’06 / 29 Tevet 5766 “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” — Plato Please world, spare me the shocking reactions and earthshaking headline stuff. I don’t think the average Israeli man or […]

By: Dov Gilor Wednesday, January 25, 2006 We rarely, if ever, speak of the fact that Israel has been good to us. I guess it is not the social norm to comment about the good and the commonplace. After 33 years of living in Israel, however, maybe the time has come to evaluate our decision […]

By Stan Goodenough JNW January 26th, 2006 CNN’s John Vause hurried Thursday morning to assure his worldwide audience that the stunning Hamas win in the previous day’s PA elections “does not necessarily mean that most Palestinians [sic] support the violence of Hamas.” Sounding as if he had already conducted a snap survey of Arab voters […]

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 28, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605933738&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The former deputy of the Iraqi air force, General Georges Sada, revealed on Saturday that that former dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, ordered him during the first Gulf War to bomb Israeli population centers with chemical weapons. The ousted dictator, said Sada in recently published book, […]

IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday that the IDF will destroy the Jewish community of Amona next week. Halutz did not set a date for expelling the Jewish residents living in the Hevron market, though that action is expected to take place by February 15. Amona, […]