EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is adapted from a speech given last month at the annual conference of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG). The theme of this year’s CIAG conference was “Countering Suicide Terrorism: Risks, Responsibilities and Realities.” At any gathering of analysts, academics, and law-enforcement officers who specialize […]

For the first time, Palestinian-launched Kassam rockets have landed near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, north of Gaza and on the route to Ashkelon. Nine such rockets were fired last night from northern Gaza at Israeli towns. For the first time, Palestinian-launched Kassam rockets have landed near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, north of Gaza and on the route […]

The unofficial website of Gush Katif, katif.net, received the following letter from soldiers of the Givati Brigade: Dear Gush Katif residents, A week ago we lost six fighters from our unit. During these difficult hours, we were able to feel how those whom we are protecting show their gratefulness to us – by coming to […]

(Washington, D.C.): The London Economist Magazine last week emblazoned its front cover with the two-word headline “Resign, Rumsfeld.” In so doing, it succinctly captured the gambit embraced lately by many prominent Democrats, anti-war critics, Bushophobes and opinion elites: Seizing upon the pretext of the widely felt need to appease the Arab world in the wake […]

Operation Rainbow – the IDF’s anti-terror operation along the Israeli-Egyptian border in southern Gaza – was expanded last night. Large forces, covered by combat helicopters, entered another neighborhood of Rafiach, named Al-Barazil, along the Philadelphi Route. The Philadelphi Route is the sterile area that the IDF has plans to widen, under which the Arabs have […]

I would like to preface what I am going to say with the fact that I was once very committed to Leftist/Liberal notions of peacemaking, but realities since 9/11 struck me very hard. I was forced to shed the beautiful notions of peace and humanitarianism as the means to achieve peace, in the face of […]

TEL AVIV – Israel has been urged by leading strategists to plan preemptive strikes against weapons of mass destruction arsenals in the Middle East. A report, entitled “Israel’s Strategic Future,” asserted that Israel must prevent the formation of an enemy WMD coalition through such means as conventional preemptive strikes against vital facilities. The report said […]

Discussing Iraq last month on Washington Journal, C-SPAN’s live call-in program, two callers \x{2014} one American and one British \x{2014} telephoned to ask whether I was Jewish. I am and said so. Both suggested that Jews were responsible for sending American soldiers into harms way. This was ironic since I volunteered for duty in Iraq, […]

In perhaps the most distorted coverage of the brutal murder of a pregnant Israeli mother and her four young daughters, NPR’s Julie McCarthy blamed the victims for their own slaughter. In the atrocity in Gaza on May 2, the gunmen reportedly fired on the family’s car from 20 yards away. When 34-year-old Tali, a social […]

Jews in Jerusalem and all over the world will celebrate the miraculous Six Day War reunification of their Eternal City and Capital tonight and tomorrow. Tonight and tomorrow, the 28th of the month of Iyar, mark the 37th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War. Many events are being and will […]