This past Shabbat, the one preceding Purim, we added to the regular Torah reading the commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek. And then we read from the prophet, Samuel, how King Saul lost his kingdom for failing to fulfill that commandment. Saul was a good King. He fought against Amalek valiantly. He began […]

On March 16th, college friends Joe Smith and Rachel Corrie came to Gaza to protest against terrorist home demolitions as part of the former’s activity with the International Solidarity Movement. Both Joe and Rachel had studied at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington. Joe witnessed Rachel’s tragic death late that afternoon, and described what he saw […]

“Day of Solidarity with Iraq.” This was the theme of a day of demonstrations and protests held by Israeli-Arabs yesterday against the U.S. attack on Iraq. To the consternation of the Israeli-Arab leadership, however, only several thousand people took part. One of them was MK Azmi Bishara, who announced his movement’s solidarity with “the Iraqi […]

When it comes to encouraging terrorists and terrorism by disguising murder by other names, no one can beat USA Today. In a February 10 report headlined “Palestinian militants are undeterred: Israel`s crackdown feeds anger, ranks of militias,” I counted 16 different ways to distort language by calling terrorism against Israelis by any other name. A […]

A number of olim chadashim arrived on Thursday at the dawn of Gulf War II. According to the Jewish Agency, hundreds of new olim are expected in Israel within the coming days. Next Tuesday, 60 people from Ethiopia are scheduled to come on Aliyah. A couple from New Jersey filled with enthusiasm and excitement, arrived […]

I n an abrupt change of course, several Saudi-financed charities and corporations targeted by the Department of Justice in a terrorism investigation have asked the government not to unseal a federal search-warrant affidavit, after originally demanding that the affidavit be made public. In a filing on Friday with the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia, […]

As the world’s most important daily newspaper, the New York Times is disproportionately influential in framing the public and diplomatic discourse on many issues, both in the U.S. and beyond. This is particularly true with regard to the Middle East, given how much space it allocates to the subject. One of the great myths of […]

NEW YORK- Official Palestinian Authority Television has broadcast a sermon calling for the destruction of America and Israel –yet another blatant violation of the conditions that President Bush established in his June 24, 2002 speech. President Bush said in his June 24, 2002 speech that the Palestinian Arabs must “end incitement to violence in official […]

Countless numbers of Israelis spent the hours before the onset of the American assault on Iraq opening their gas mask kits, reading the instructions, and carefully trying them on themselves and on their children. The IDF’s Homefront Command issued the instructions to do so last night, less than six hours before the 48-hour American ultimatum […]

The so-called “road map” for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord hastily unveiled by President Bush last Friday may have been a politically timely effort to help British Prime Minister contend with mounting domestic opposition to his courageous stance in favor of war with Iraq. If so, it will join a long list of putative prescriptions for […]