Two people were killed – a 49-year-old man and his four-year-old grandchild – and at least 14 injured this morning at about 8:30am when terrorists from Gaza launched two Kassam rockets into the city of Sderot in southern Israel. The victims have been identified as Mordechai Yosefov, of Sderot, and Mordechai’s grandson, Afik Zahavi. Afik […]

UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the world organization’s first-ever seminar on anti-Semitism on Monday that Jews must feel “the United Nations is their home.” Author Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, told the seminar that he thought anti-Semitism had died at Auschwitz. However, he said, it has turned out that […]

Neoconservatism is finished. According to the conventional wisdom, the Pentagon’s top neocons — Paul D. Wolfowitz, Douglas J. Feith and William J. Luti — have been discredited by the insurgency in Iraq, Abu Ghraib and growing public discontent with the war. The United Nations has been invited back — begged, really — while the organization’s […]

Six Israel Defense Forces soldiers were wounded Sunday evening, one critically, after a huge explosion went off at a tunnel beneath an army outpostat the Gush Katif junction in the Gaza Strip. A few hours later, Israel launched two separate missile strikes at metal workshops in Gaza City early Monday. No major injuries were reported. […]

I am an Israeli but I also regard myself as a Palestinian – a Jewish Palestinian. My father was born and raised in Palestine as was his father, grandfather, great grandfather and so on for many generations. In fact the Bregmans have lived on this land – first Palestine then Israel – since around 1754. […]

Our respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books – all quite recently written and published – is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims […]

JENIN, West Bank \u2014 The Israeli army reports a sharp drop in fatalities from Palestinian terror attacks in the first half of this year, giving much of the credit to the partially completed West Bank security barrier. Palestinians, who are reluctant to find any good in the barrier, also are benefiting from a reduction in […]

The commonly accepted version of events is that Clinton promised then-Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, during the Wye talks of late 1998, to release Pollard as part of an overall Israeli-Palestinian Authority agreement. Several Israeli participants at the talks confirm that the promise to release Pollard was indeed made, but Clinton, in his newly released autobiography, […]

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the chief rabbi of Tzfat (Safed), told Arutz-7 that the incident proves the danger from local hostile Arabs to be greater than originally thought. The incident, as reported in the weekly B’sha’ah Tovah magazine, took place several days ago, when a group of yeshiva (seminary) students from America studying in Jerusalem made […]

NEW YORK – While the international community focuses on Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza, Palestinian Arab construction in those territories rose nearly 27% this year, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. According to Israeli government estimates, Arabs have been building at ten times the rate of Jews in the territories. The pro-Arafat newspaper Arab […]