Arafat’s millions and Bush’s principles set the stage for a post-Iraq-war collision This past week, the Palestinian Authority’s top accountant told The New York Times that the P.A.’s finances are “a mess.” Think you have trouble sorting out your investments? According to Salam Fayyad, the gun-toting kleptocracy that has raked in billions in foreign aid […]

If you’ve ever thought you detected a certain anti-Israel bias in the reportage of NBC’s longtime Israel bureau chief Martin Fletcher, there’s good reason: Despite being Jewish, married to an Israeli and the father of three Israeli sons, Fletcher considers Israel worse than South Africa in the days of apartheid and won’t even say whether […]

One of the clearest signs of the growing Nazification of so much of the world’s media is the increasing trend to label Palestinians atrocities, such as the exploding of the bus full of children in Haifa last week, as “Palestinian resistance”. The PLO and its amen choruses routinely explain away such mass murders of Jewish […]

Our wily prime minister is a master of obfuscation, especially when it comes to Israel-Palestinian diplomacy. To judge by the old maxim: “keep the enemy guessing,” he is doing a wonderful job. The problem is that Ariel Sharon’s contradictory policies toward Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have everybody confused – not just our enemies. […]

According to a report published in today’s “New York Times”, U.S. President George Bush has decided to freeze implementation of his mid-east peace plan calling for the creation of a Palestinian state, until the end of the crisis with Iraq. Administration officials say that it makes no sense to publish the peace plan, known as […]

On its surface, THE PIANIST is the true tale of a great Jewish musician caught in the unfathomable depths of Nazi occupation. More profoundly, it is a visual microcosm of the titanic human struggle between good and evil. a struggle that is sometimes utterly clear but sometimes also very “gray.” The Nazis in Poland were […]

A very large and unusual room, with a mikveh [ritual bath] from the Hashmonaim period (some 2,100 years ago), was discovered accidentally in Jerusalem’s Old City a number of weeks ago, near the Hasmonean Tunnels. The room is 20 meters high, 10 by 10 meters wide, with the mikveh at the bottom, including a stairwell […]

JERUSALEM — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasir Arafat may be under the looming threat of war and military siege, respectively, but their personal financial wealth places them among the elite of world rulers. With $2 billion, Saddam is the fourth-richest among royals and dictators, on par with the king of Liechtenstein, […]

Israel Foreign Ministry officials are irked at media portrayal of last night’s IDF counter-terrorism actions in Gaza as a “massacre,” a “retaliation for yesterday’s terrorist attack,” or both. IDF sources say that there is a wave of disinformation regarding the killing of 11 Arabs in Gaza last night. It is being said that the 11 […]

The Hebron Municipal Board is demanding the permanent closure of the Arab Polytechnicum institute in Hebron where yesterday’s Haifa suicide bomber was a student. The municipality is also calling for the expulsion of all persons connected to the institution, as well as the entire extended Kawasma clan to whom the terrorist bomber belonged. The Polytechnicum […]