The gleaming digital tracking board that dominates Shaare Zedeks new emergency room, with its color-coded system for monitoring patients, has Dr. David Applebaums fingerprints all over it. So do the more private, individual rooms for patients, the improved nurse-to-patient ratio and an area for paramedics to rest and grab a cup of coffee between calls. […]

In an interview in an Israeli newspaper this week, Giora Eiland, Israel’s national security adviser, made a startling statement: November will be the “point of no return” for taking out the Iranian nuclear program. “Point of no return” is a phrase with a history. In 1981, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin demanded to know when […]

Arab terrorists gunned down and killed an Israeli soldier Tuesday afternoon near the community of Mevo Datan in northern Samaria. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the military wing of Yassar Arafat\u2019s Fatah group, said the attack was in response to recent Israeli anti-terror actions in the Gaza Strip. The victim, not yet identified, died while being […]

Neither President Bush nor Senator Kerry addressed an absolutely key issue of current American foreign policy in the opening debate. Are we now involved in a largely operational struggle against very particular terror groups and individuals, or rather are we embroiled in something much larger? Should we now be focusing on political, military and logistical […]

Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is hoping John Kerry wins the presidential election in November, several Palestinian leaders told WorldNetDaily. Arafat deputy and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told WND in an exclusive interview that while “we do not involve ourselves in internal American politics,” at the same time “our region has been sliding deeper […]

Like many American Jews, I was brought up to believe that if I pulled the Republican lever on the election machine my right hand would wither and, as the Psalmist says, my tongue would cleave to the roof of my mouth. According to the Bible, of course, these are the feared consequences of forgetting Jerusalem. […]

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Bat Ye’or, the world’s foremost authority on dhimmitude. Her latest study is Islam and Dhimmitude. Where Civilizations Collide. Her forthcoming book, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, will be published in January 2005. FP: Bat Ye’or, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Bat Ye’or: Thanks for inviting me to your prestigious magazine. FP: First […]

Forwarded with emphasis & comments by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator Dear Friends: This excellent commentary by Richard Spertzel, head of the biological-weapons section of UNSCOM from 1994-99, just returned from Iraq, where he has been a member of the Iraq Survey Group. (ISG). It came into our Email almost simultaneously […]

Daniella Weiss, the Mayor of the Shomron city of Kedumim and one of the most veteran settlement leaders in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, says that we must object to any form of referendum. “We have learned from our rabbis that there is no such thing as a referendum on the Land of Israel. Even Yitzchak […]

On Oct. 1, over 30 Middle Eastern American groups gathered at the Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, D.C., to discuss something that is only whispered about in their native lands: freedom. The Middle Eastern American Convention for Freedom and Democracy, a conference organized by the Washington-based Center for Freedom in the Middle East along […]