Rock-throwings in Judea, especially between Hevron and Gush Etzion, are on the rise. In the past two weeks, Kol Rina News Agency reports, the phenomenon has increased dramatically, and has begun once again to cause significant damage. Ambulances, buses, and cars have been targeted. Residents say that the army does not arrive on the scene […]

“U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.” Those words were spoken last week by Nicholas De Genova, a professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at […]

Overshadowed by the fighting in Iraq, Israel’s own war at home proceeds apace, with attacks on Israeli targets and Israeli counter-terrorism successes. The GSS today released for publication news of the arrest three weeks ago of three Israeli-Arabs from Jaljulya on charges of terrorist activities. The three, members of the Islamic Jihad, operated an explosives […]

Alex Safian, Associate Director of CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, “www.camera.org”), notes a glaring discrepancy in the way National Public Radio covered two seemingly similar stories, one after the other. Safian writes that on March 4 and 5, two Islamic extremists blew themselves up amongst crowds of civilians, killing over […]

Netanya was once again the scene of a major bombing attack today, though this time, miraculously, no one was killed. It was just a year and three days ago that a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up in a Netanya hotel where hundreds of people were celebrating the Passover Seder, killing no fewer than 29 people. […]

For all those of you who think that only war poses risks for innocent people, I would like to tell you of our experiences here in Israel. Nine years ago, we in Israel, encouraged by our own Peace-Nowers, signed a Peace Accord with a known terrorist, pulled our army out, handed him land and then […]

When the Americans were planning their campaign in Iraq, they reckoned the forces that would try to prevent the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime would be the Republican Guard divisions, special forces and the secret police. They were contemptuous of the regular Iraqi army, and practically didn’t take into account the popular militias. Now, it […]

BELGRADE, March 27 (JTA) — Wandering round the vast, neglected site straddling Belgrade’s Sava river, Aleksandar Mosic admits his project is ambitious. Mosic, a former board member of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, wants to recreate the Belgrade Fair exhibition ground and thus build a proper memorial to the victims of what he […]

GAZA CITY – Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday in their biggest show of support ever for Iraq, burning effigies of Western leaders and urging Saddam Hussein to attack Israel. The marches could prove embarrassing for Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority which, while speaking out against the […]

SEVRAN, France – Jérémy Bismuth is Jewish, though he doesn’t wear a yarmulke or Star of David pendant or adhere to a Kosher diet or leave school early on Fridays to be home before sunset. Nothing identifies the 15-year-old French boy as Jewish except his birth. Yet because he is a Jew, he was attacked […]