Sheik Jamal Said stood before the packed mosque and worked the crowd like an auctioneer. Speaking Arabic, the prayer leader asked for a donation of $10,000. No one responded. He asked for $5,000, and three men raised their hands. Hundreds of men sat cross-legged before him in the main prayer hall. Women filled the basement, […]

“Everyone knows that the reason Israel has nuclear weapons is to protect itself from being thrown into the sea.” So said yesterday, more or less, the United States’ Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Ynet reports that Rumsfeld, speaking with reporters in Munich yesterday, was asked why the United States is silent when “Israel has more nuclear […]

Fourteen of the most senior police chiefs, sheriffs and state police commanders returned from Israel last week after five days of intensively studying counter terrorism techniques. These law enforcement executives traveled to Israel as participants in JINSA’s Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP). Modeled after the JINSA’s extremely successful Flag & General Officers Trip, the LEEP […]

b>It was not an event that any of the big newspapers saw fit to cover, but this past December, a draft United Nations resolution condemning anti-Semitism was quietly withdrawn by Ireland, its sponsor in the General Assembly. In a complicated exchange, Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen had promised the measure to his Israeli counterpart Silvan […]

Ir David – the ancient City of David, just to the south and below the Temple Mount, the Western Wall Plaza and the rest of the Old City of Jerusalem – continues to flourish, some 2,800 years after its founding. Members of the Elad Association, which has settled the area with 26 Jewish families in […]

The Palestinian Authority’s sham “trial” of individuals who may have been connected to the murders of three Americans last year “does not meet serious standards of justice,” a U.S. State Department official told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on February 9, 2004. Similarly, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Kurtzer said: “We don’t believe that this […]

Opposition leader Shimon Peres is opposed to forcibly removing citizens from their homes. He said last week, “You’re going to force them to move? They don’t want to, and you can’t just do things by force. They are Israeli citizens with rights and obligations just like yours and mine… Listen to them. They are saying, […]

We are nearing the one-year anniversary of the so-called Mideast Roadmap to Peace. The publication of the plan in April 2003 fueled hopes in some quarters that finally a magic potion had been found to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was a worthy objective, rendered plausible by the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq — […]

NRP head Housing Minister Effie Eitam told Arutz-7 today that he is determined to quit the government if it approves Sharon’s retreat-and-expulsion plan. He was asked if Netanyahu would be a worthy successor to Sharon, and said: Housing Minister Effie Eitam, head of the National Religious Party, told Arutz-7 today that he is determined to […]

Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, has broken with decades of his own history and declared an intent to withdraw all Israeli habitations from Gaza, plus some from the West Bank. Doing so raises a basic question: Just how important are these “settlements” in the grand scheme of Palestinian-Israeli relations? (I use quotation marks […]