An Israeli military court handed a life-sentence Sunday to the man who proudly displayed his blood-drenched hands after he joined a lynch-mob of other Arabs and carried out the grisly murder of Cpl. Vadim Norzitch, one of the two Israelis killed in the lynching at a Ramallah police station in 2001. Aziz Salha was part […]

The new Yad Vashem site, at www.yadvashem.org, is termed a “historic” central database of Shoah [Holocaust] Victims, and contains some three million names. It is an attempt to reconstruct the names, and some of the life stories, of all the Jews who perished in the Nazi Holocaust. “We are reaching a crucial historical hour,” said […]

For Israel, its the classic Ive got good news, but you might want to hear the bad news first scenario. Just when a confluence of unrelated events revived the prospect of peace talks with the Palestinians, Irans potential nuclear threat to the Jewish state suddenly seems greater than ever. In fact, the Iran dilemma is […]

An Israeli man was stabbed last night at the Geha Highway Intersection, near Tel Aviv. He is now listed in light-to-moderate condition. The man was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition, with the knife still embedded in his back. A resident of the Shomron city of Ariel, the victim’s condition improved after he […]

It\u2019s quite remarkable, really, this dizzying speed at which calls for a change in U.S. policy toward the Middle East have moved to center stage since last Tuesday`s election. It was almost as if the presidential campaign made self-evident the need for the U.S. to jettison Bush\u2019s Middle East policy of delaying negotiations until the […]

While PA Chairman Yasser Arafat was dying, some columnists in the Egyptian government press avoided expressing hope for his recovery. They explained their position as stemming from Arafat’s joyful behavior following the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al-Sadat. The following are excerpts from two articles on the subject: ‘I Do Not Care at All Whether […]

Close to 6,000 Jewish Israeli women marry Arab men each year, unknowingly entering into a trap from which only a few manage to escape. Mayaan Jaffe spoke to one of the “luckier” ones. The child pictured here was born Musa, and is now Moshe. First in a series by Mayaan Jaffe Esther [all names have […]

Yesterday the House International Relations Committee revealed that money from the United Nations Oil for Food program, which was supposed to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, helped pay the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. The U.N. has a problem with anti-Semitism: It doesn’t know what it is. […]

Left-Wing Pro-PLO Goons At The University Of Pisa Prevent An Invited Israeli Diplomat From Speaking. Could It Happen Here? Sometimes, as bad as things might seem, one must also remember to count one`s blessings because things could always be worse. Indeed, elsewhere they often are worse. For the past month my columns have focused on […]

President George W. Bush’s re-election and the Republican Party’s victory elicied diverse reactions in the Arab media. While some columnists expressed their disappointment with the election results or their hopes that President Bush would change his policy during his second term, others articulated their satisfaction with Bush’s re-election and even called on the Arab world […]