FRANKFURT, Nov. 29 — In an embarrassing mixup that speaks less to the fog of war than to the fog of fax machines, Germany may rescind its offer of armored vehicles to Israel on the ground that officials misread a faxed request from the Israelis specifying the model they sought. On Wednesday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder […]

The number of Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism and violence since the signing of the Oslo Agreements has now passed 1,000. The six men murdered in Beit She’an on Thursday brought the number to 1,004. The violence known as the Oslo War, which began in September 2000, has exacted 692 victims. Close to 200 people […]

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Yehuda Lancry said that Israel accepts Palestinian statehood as a solution to the Mideast conflict. Lancry told the General Assembly on Friday that Israel had accepted U.S. President Bush’s vision of peace in which two states – Jewish and Arab – exist “side by side in peace and security.” […]

A politically conservative organization has established a new Web site to monitor and critique professors and universities on the manner in which Middle East studies are taught on campus. The predominantly left-wing academics do not like it one bit. But the public seems greatly enamored. In its first two weeks last month, the Web site […]

In Beit She’an this afternoon, two terrorists opened fire in three different locations in and around the Likud Party headquarters, killing five Jews and wounding some 30, including ten seriously. Almost all the victims were hit in Likud Party headquarters as elections for the party’s leader were being held. Beit She’an is situated in the […]

It’s been quite a week in the wonderful world of Islam. Nigerian Islam’s encounter with that powerhouse of subversion, the Miss World contest, has been unedifying, to put it mildly. First some of the contestants had the nerve to object to a Shariah court’s sentence that a Nigerian woman convicted of adultery be stoned to […]

In the first statement of its kind, a senior Iraqi official confirmed that his country is not ruling out the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction to defend the regime. His statements were published in a lead article in today’s London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, which is known to support Saddam Hussein. (1) The […]

Despair is beginning to creep into the Netanyahu camp, as the most recent polls show that Ariel Sharon has opened up a 20-24% margin over the current Foreign Minister. The Netanyahu camp says that the gap is about half that, but is not optimistic. Sharon appeared before a Hadera crowd last night in his last […]

Arafat is determined that, within any peace agreement, Israel must absorb approximately 300,000 Palestinians from Lebanon, and that the independent Palestinian state must be free to absorb more than half a million more Palestinians. Arafat’s long-term goal is to combine these with the 3.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the 3.2 […]

The famous right-wing campaign, “Why Did You Give Them Guns?” [where You = the Rabin/Peres governments, and Them = the Palestinian terrorists] may now have to be changed to “How Are They Getting Their Explosives?” The number of victims of Palestinian terrorism during this 26-month Oslo War felled by bullets is approximately equal to the […]