State Department Explains its Policy of Targeted Killings November 06, 2002: State Department Press Conference Following Killing of Wanted Al Qaeda Terrorists Spokesman: The United States killed six suspected al Qaeda members in Yemen Monday morning, including the man wanted in the bombing of the USS Cole, with a Hellfire missile fired from an unmanned […]

Rabbi Yitzchak Arama, the rabbi of the Netzer Hazani community in Gush Katif, was murdered late this morning by one or more Palestinian terrorists. He was shot in an ambush attack as he was driving with his family near the Kisufim Junction entrance to the Katif area. He got out of the car after being […]

LONDON, Dec. 18 (JTA) — British Jews and other pro-Israel activists have responded with shock and disbelief to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s visit to London. During his visit, Assad denied harboring terrorists in Damascus, defended suicide bombings and dismissed a proposed conference on reform of the Palestinian Authority as misguided. He also refused to accept […]

DIDN’T ISRAEL DRIVE OUT 600,000 PALESTINIANS AT GUNPOINT IN 1948 AND TAKE THEIR LAND? Most Arabs who left Israel did so under the orders of the Arab leader, the Grand Mufti, to withdraw and let the Arab armies “drive the Jews into the sea,” which they attempted in 1948. However Israel won that war. Not […]

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has issued a new report to the Security Council condemning 23 nations and movements that recruit child soldiers – yet one entity particularly known for massive recruitment of child warriors is conspicuously absent: the Palestinian Authority. “For the first time in an official report to the Security Council,” said Olara Otunnu, […]

Professional advice for public speakers is to a) tell your audience what you’re going to tell them, b) tell it to them, and c) tell them what you’ve told them. Or a) show them what you’re going to do, b) do it, and c) show them what you’ve done. President Bush said he would not […]

In the lead-up to an all-but-certain war between the United States and her allies and the dictatorship of Iraq, Saddam Hussein is trying to increase the chances that as many of his neighbors as possible will not join in the fight on the side of America. One method Hussein has adopted vis-a-vis Kuwait is a […]

Following Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s announcement that al-Qaeda had set up cells and was operating in Gaza and from within the Palestinian Authority, the PA press was replete with stories claiming that, in fact, it was the Israeli secret service recruiting Arab youths, while letting them think they were working for Osama bin Laden. The […]

Three Algerian Moslem extremists have been arrested in Paris on suspicion of planning a chemical attack. They were found to be in possession of unidentified chemicals, as well thousands of dollars in cash and Islamic propaganda literature. In other European news, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made clear yesterday that differences between his country and […]

The anti-Oslo camp gained important points last week with U.S. President George Bush’s appointment of Elliott Abrams as his Middle East policy coordinator. Abrams, who will serve in the top Middle East policy spot in the National Security Council (NSC), was known for his objections to Barak’s concessions in Camp David, as well as for […]