The IDF removed the curfew from the PA-controlled city of Shechem today – and promptly had several of its nearby outposts attacked by Arab gunfire. Israeli cars nearby were also stoned and firebombed. IDF forces returned fire, and no Israeli casualties were reported. Three terrorists, including at least two Hamas members, were killed in clashes […]

When Israel’s Labor Party is routed in the January 28 general elections – as most polls indicate it will be – what was once the nation’s most powerful political force will have arrived at the destination it clearly set out for back in 1993, but refused to believe it would reach. It’s been a long […]

Perhaps you haven’t heard, but there’s a new controversy percolating in the Jewish world; or in the “hate-Jews world,” to be exact. A little 15-year-old Italian girl of Egyptian extraction, Randa Ghazy, has written a book, Dream of Palestine, which, among other things, laments the death of “just five” Jews by a suicide bomber as […]

Arik: Now that President Bush has delivered his WMD policy statement, here is your final draft with the revisions we discussed. Should be delivered before the Israeli elections of Jan. 2003. Irwin WMD Policy Speech (543TS-12/10/02) On Iraq for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: Draft #3 – Israel has long been considered the mini-America in the […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The claim of universities to be fostering diversity and preventing discrimination against vulnerable minorities is oddly compromised by a surge of anti-Semitism. With the recent addition of Columbia and Yale, over 50 campuses are currently circulating faculty petitions to divest from Israel and from American firms selling arms to Israel. Faculty at […]

An op-ed in yesterday’s Ha’aretz – appearing on the English internet site – states that armed Jewish civilians living in Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) are legitimate targets for terrorist attacks. The article, entitled, “Palestinians Must Take the Moral Ground,” and written by prominent Arab-American Emadeddin J. Fraitekh, states that deliberate Palestinian targeting of Israeli […]

So many things have happened since my return from the States, that aside from all of the wonderful memories from visiting my family, it almost feels as though I never left home. The morning after our arrival (following a good nights sleep), Chana and I ventured out to visit friends. In between visits we enjoyed […]

The IDF has decided that former Lechi fighter Ezra Yachin will no longer be allowed to lecture to soldiers as part of the army’s educational seminars. Meretz MK Naomi Chazan complained that Yachin tells his audiences that Lechi soldiers did not carry out a massacre in Dir Yassin in 1948. Yachin himself, who took part […]

(IsraelNN.com) Two Patriot missile batteries arrived in the Port of Haifa today from the United States. The US military personnel accompanying the shipment will deploy them in the coming days and they will take part in a major joint Israel-USA military exercise in the coming weeks that will test missile defense and other weapons systems.

Everywhere on Earch, most Palestinians celebrated Al Qaeda’s September 11th attacks on the United States. Since that day in 2001, the powerful friendship between various Plestinian terror groups and Al Qaeda has grown far beyond their common visceral hatred of this country and their commone commitment to do us harm. Today there are also shadowy […]