One hundred simultaneous demonstrations were held last night in favor of Gush Katif and northern Shomron, and against Prime Minister Sharon’s disengagement/expulsion plan. A total of close to 200,000 people participated in the rallies, which were held from Kiryat Shmonah in the north to Eilat in the south. The central event was held in Jerusalem, […]

Israel’s future is in your hands. Bush? Kerry? Pro or con? One of the most important US elections in our history will help shape the future of Israel. Each and every individual who is concerned for Israel’s peace and security must weigh the record and statements of the two presidential candidates very carefully and seriously. […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its dismay at the statement by Israeli President Moshe Katzav that anyone who calls the Gaza retreat plan a danger to security or a mortal blow at the State of Israel should be placed behind bars. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: The cherished […]

“You wouldnt know it from the headlines, but the new WMD report explains why Saddam Hussein was a threat and why the U.S. was right to remove him…[but] the anti-war media have been quick with agitprop leads like this one from AP: Contradicting the main argument for a war that cost more than 1000 American […]

“I know it when I see it” was the famous response by a U.S. Supreme Court justice to the vexed problem of defining pornography. Terrorism may be no less difficult to define, but the wanton killing of schoolchildren, of mourners at a funeral, or workers at their desks in skyscrapers surely fits the know-it-when-I-see-it definition. […]

Saddam Hussein’s goal through the 1990s and until the 2003 U.S. invasion was to end U.N. sanctions on Iraq, while working covertly to restore the country’s ability to produce weapons of mass destruction, a report by the chief U.S. weapons inspector says. “Saddam wanted to re-create Iraq’s WMD capability which was essentially destroyed in 1991 […]

Everybody likes a good party. And theres nothing like a nice round number to serve as an excuse for one. The number in question is 350. As in 350 years ago this month, 23 bedraggled Jewish refugees arrived in New Amsterdam and asked to stay. The Jews were thrown out of the settlement of Recife, […]

Nowhere is it written that Israel must sit back passively and simply respond after a nuclear and/or biological attack has been inflicted upon its civilian populations. On the contrary, Israel has the same right accorded to all states in world politics to act preemptively when facing certain forms of existential assault. Known formally in long-established […]

Living in Israel, I have naively believed that whether or not a president of the United States supported the State of Israel would make a significant difference to my voting Diaspora brethren. That was particularly true after these four painful years of terror. I imagined the awkwardness of Democrats voting Republican for the first time […]

The controversy over the killing a few days ago of a 13-year-old Arab girl – apparently a terrorist decoy – continues. IDF Chief Prosecutor Brig.-Gen. Avi Mandelblit has ordered an investigation into the case, following accusations by soldiers that their platoon commander fired a burst of bullets into the girl’s already-dead body. However, two soldiers […]