There`s been a lot of talk since 9/11 about anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination, and yet according to actual hate-crime statistics, it is Jews whove had the most to fear. According to the FBI`s Hate Crimes Statistics Report for 2002, there were 155 anti-Islamic incidents and 931 anti-Jewish incidents that year. And as anyone who follows […]

On June 6th, 2004, the Israeli cabinet voted to dismantle Israeli settlements in Gaza in accord with the Sharon Plan. When the Knesset considers the rest of the Sharon Plan, the issue that promises to be the most hotly debated is the almost unnoticed Clause Five — mandating military training of Palestinian armed forces to […]

A late-night visit from a refugee rabbi during World War II convinced a Portuguese official to save Jews from Hitler. Rabbi Haim Kruger, a refugee in France, and Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portugals consul general in Bordeaux, spoke all through the night about the problems of the war, Sebastiao de Sousa Mendes, the consuls son, […]

The IDF has completed the removal of some 40 barriers around Arab villages throughout Judea and Samaria, thus removing many restrictions on free travel for Palestinian Authority residents. Neighboring Jewish residents fear that terrorists will be able, as they have in the past, to commit shooting attacks and then return quickly to their villages without […]

VIA FACSIMILE ([949] 824-2087 and 2763) AND E-MAIL Mr. Ralph J. Cicerone Chancellor University of California, Irvine The Chancellor’s Office Irvine, CA 92697-1900 Mr. Manuel N. Gomez Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs University of California, Irvine 405 Administration Irvine, CA 92697-5180 Dear Chancellor Cicerone and Vice Chancell or Gomez: We are writing to you on behalf […]

This is the second such plot thwarted in the past several days. IDF Intelligence Chief Gen. Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday that four terrorists were arrested two weeks ago as they tried to exit Gaza and perpetrate the attack. Finkler reports that, according to additional details supplied in a […]

A Web site partially funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry offers a report glorifying Hezbollah (Hizbullah) suicide bombers as “deified in paradise and venerated on earth for fighting Israel” – and praises the terrorist group’s support network for women widowed by their husband’s “martyrdom” attacks. Women’s eNews.org still features the September 2003 report, written by Sarah […]

Surrounded by neighbors committed to our destruction and standing in the front line of the global war against terror, Israelis can rightly take pride in being the only democratic state in the region. However, recent political developments do raise serious questions. A genuine democracy does not start and end with elections. It requires government to […]

A few days after Libya’s historic pledge on Dec. 19 to abandon the quest for nuclear weapons, Libyan intelligence officials met with visiting U.S. diplomats to deliver some unsettling news: A sizable quantity of nuclear equipment purchased by Libya appeared to be missing. The equipment — sensitive components of machines used to enrich uranium — […]

Attorney-General Meni Mazuz has announced that he finds the evidence against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the case known as the Greek Island affair to be lacking. Mazuz said that he has therefore ordered the case to be closed. Mazuz quoted a long list of professional opinions since the suspicions were first raised stating that […]