Kibbutz Metzer, between the Shomron and Hadera in central Israel, is in mourning today after a terrorist infiltrated the town last night, slaughtered two children and three adults, and then kept the security forces and the residents on tense alert until this morning when it was ascertained that he had safely fled the area. The […]

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli business daily “Globes” reports that production of transmission equipment for Israeli made Merkava tanks will be shifted from Germany to an American factory in order to bypass the German arms embargo against Israel. Germany imposed an arms embargo on Israel when the Arab uprising gained steam in Sept. 2000. The European Parliament imposed […]

(IsraelNN.com) Five Israelis were killed tonight when an Arab terrorist or terrorists infiltrated Kibbutz Metzar and opened fire on passers-by and homes on the Kibbutz. The attack began at around 23:40, Sunday night. Two children are apparently among those killed in the attack. IDF forces are still in the process of searching the area for […]

Declaring for the first time in a US court that the Palestinian Authority fails to meet the criteria for statehood that would grant it sovereign immunity, a Rhode Island federal judge has refused to dismiss a $250 million lawsuit filed by the family of an American terror victim against the PA. In the landmark decision, […]

JERUSALEM – A leading human rights organization charged today that Palestinians who order and dispatch suicide bombers are guilty of war crimes and should be brought to justice. In a 170-page report, the New York-based Human Rights Watch also said that Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat bears ”significant political responsibility” for the ”repeated deliberate killing” […]

Dear MEMRI Subscribers, Beginning today, November 5, 2002, MEMRI will make segments of programming originally broadcast on Iqraa TV available on www.memri.org/video as streaming video. The subtitled videos, which will include transcripts, will be released as a three part series. The first three segments are now available at www.memri.org/video; subsequent segments will follow. Segments included […]

“Demolishing the homes of Arab civilians…” “Shooting handcuffed prisoners…” “Forcing local Arabs to test areas where mines may have been planted…” These sound like the sort of accusations made by British and other European officials concerning Israel’s recent actions in Jenin. In fact, they are descriptions from official British documents concerning the methods used by […]

In the ongoing national debate over the appropriate balance between preserving civil liberties and protecting national security, it is generally taken for granted that the government’s invocation of “national security” is made in good faith. Indeed, in the context of combating international terrorism, the need for enhanced protection of national security is without dispute. Yet […]

NEW YORK – The official Palestinian Authority newspaper has accused the CIA of masterminding the Muslim Chechnyan terrorist siege of a Moscow theater that resulted in the deaths of 118 hostages.     Fuad Abu Hajleh, senior columnist for the PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, wrote on October 29, 2002 that the CIA masterminded the attack in […]

A Palestinian terrorist disguised as a worker – he actually worked for a Jewish employer for a period of time – opened fire at several Jews near the community of Pe’at Sadeh this morning, and murdered two. Security forces had received intelligence warnings of a likely terrorist attack, and the entering Arab workers were searched […]