Emulating the blunder of their patriarch’s elder brother Esau, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima Party Monday said Israel has no choice but to sell its birthright for the “bowl of pottage” it believes will ease the nation’s current ills. “The people of Israel have a national and historical right to all of Israel, and […]

Anti-Israel violence continues in the PA-controlled city of Shechem, in the Shomron. Palestinian terrorists fired a Kassam rocket from Gaza, causing no injuries. Shechem (Nablus), has long been known as one of the Palestinian Authority’s terrorism capitals. Last night, an IDF force identified three Arab terrorists standing on the side of the city’s southern bypass […]

New York – Yesterday, Palestinians fired Qassam rockets and mortars at Israeli population centers in a serious attempt to murder Jews and destroy Jewish property; yet, despite promises by senior Israeli officials months ago to use overwhelming force if terrorism continues after the Gaza withdrawal, Israel’s only response was to fire back at empty fields […]

If the opponents of Israel’s Gaza disengagement plan didn’t derail anything, the failure can’t be blamed on Helen Freedman. Freedman, the tireless executive director of Americans For a Safe Israel, was practically a one-woman opposition movement this past spring and summer. She organized rallies, wrote press releases, organized missions to Israel and the territories and […]

Gush Etzion residents are deciding whether to continue to negotiate with the authorities on the route of the Partition Wall, or to oppose the wall’s construction altogether. Kibbutz Kfar Etzion, one of the region’s first communities reestablished after the Six-Day-War, announced last month that it rejects the building of a wall around the Etzion Bloc […]

The Quartet’s envoy and former World Bank president James Wolfensohn is reputed to be quite a deal maker. One of the deals he made as the Quartet’s envoy to the region was the purchase by wealthy American Jews of greenhouses owned by the Jews who were expelled from Gaza this past summer and their transfer […]

A sit-in strike is being held outside the government complex, unlimited in time, to demand solutions for the socio-economic problems of the Gush Katif expellees. Tzvika Slonim of Kedumim, a veteran of large-scale public protests against left-wing government policies, has organized this one as well. “It took us ten days to get a permit for […]

While the Agreed Principles for Rafah Crossing” of 15 November 2005 established that the PA has the final say on the movement of terrorists through Rafah, the “Agreed Arrangement on the European Union Border Assistance Mission At the Rafah Crossing Point on the Gaza-Egypt border” negotiated by Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres gives the PA […]

As Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s new Kadima Party announced its platform of partitioning the Land of Israel Monday, Arab terror attacks surged across the country. Kassam rockets fired from PA-controlled Gaza slammed into a field near a southern Israeli community early in the day. No injuries resulted and the IDF offered no response. Later in […]

Dr. Mel Rosenberg has a fabulous sense of humor – an absolute requirement, he will explain, for someone who specializes in bad breath and body odor. “I’m a smell-ologist,” he told ISRAEL21c with a grin, before explaining that he will have to cut a meeting short because, “I’ve got a long line of people in […]