One day, years from now, after the war to defeat the global jihad has been won, historians will proclaim that the years of this war marked the darkest period in the history of Western journalism. In an essay in the current issue of Commentary magazine entitled “The Panic over Iraq,” Norman Podhoretz makes the case […]

In what many consider to be one of the most notorious holy site desecrations in recent history, nearly 100 Palestinian terrorists in April 2002 holed up inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem while fleeing a massive Israeli anti-terror operation. One of Christianity’s most sacred sites, the church is believed to be the birthplace […]

A Shin Bet (Internal Security) annual report revealed that a large amount of ammunition has been smuggled into the Gaza Strip Since the disengagement. The ammunition included anti-aircraft missiles, hundreds of anti-tank rockets, thousands of assault rifles, a few tons of explosives. Still, a significant decline in the number of people killed in terrorist activity […]

The cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, said at a news conference on Tuesday that Israel was building the synagogue in order to cause the mosque to collapse. Israel has formally denied the charges, stating categorically that nothing at all was being developed under the mosque, let alone a synagogue. A key speaker at the conference was […]

Three Kassam rockets struck the western Negev on Sunday, despite an IDF operation in northern Gaza to stop the rockets. Two of the rockets landed in open fields and the third struck the city of Sderot, a frequent target for the Kassams. None of the rockets caused damage or casualties. The rocket fired at Sderot […]

These are not my original ideas, but rather the ideas of a number of Jewish thinkers: 1. ORIGIN OF THE NAME, CHANUKAH. THE HOLIDAY OF EDUCATION. According to the first book of The Maccabees, Yehuda (who succeeded Mattityahu) ordered the Jewish People to observe an eight day holiday on the 25th day of the month […]

The Memorial Wall at Yad Vashem — the Wall of Holocaust and Heroism — has four sections, ranging from the Shoah to Rebirth. Magnificently designed by Naftali Bezem, it takes us movingly from an inferno in which the Holy is utterly profaned to the divine sanctuary of new Jewish generations. But these generations, symbolized by […]

The firing of the katyushas on Kiryat Shmona this week, as the launching of Qassams on Ashkelon and the Negev continues, testifies to a failure of Israeli deterrence. Many months ago, the brass of the Israel Defense Forces said that the day was near when technological means would be developed that would decrease the threat […]

IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said Thursday terrorism has gone down since the expulsion and withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, but statistics on suicide bombings show the opposite. In an interview, Halutz said, “the level of terror has gone down significantly.” He also advised to take recent terrorist attacks in proportion and not […]

Our fifth annual Big media was clearly on the defensive in 2005. Dan Rather left the CBS News anchor desk under a heavy cloud while other executives were fired in the wake of Memogate. The use of anonymous sources put journalists like Judith Miller and the NY Times in an uncomfortable spotlight. Newsweek’s erroneous report […]