From the UAE daily Al-Bayan comes news that the PLO doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist (with thanks to IMRA [www.imra.org] and MidEastweb [www.mideastweb.org ]): “In the strongest Palestinian reaction to the practices of Ariel Sharon’s government toward the Palestinians, Palestinian Foreign Minister [as published] Faruq Qaddumi has stated that the PLO no longer recognizes […]

Two Israelis are in critical or serious condition after Arab terrorists shot them as they were driving southeast of Hevron late this morning near the hostile village of Yata. Two other passengers were hurt less seriously. Army forces entered Yata in search of the murderers. The drive-by attack occurred at the same Zif Junction at […]

Fourteen Arabs – all of whom except for one or two were armed terrorists – were killed over the night in an Israeli offensive in Gaza. The IDF raid followed yet another Arab rocket attack on a Gush Katif community last night; no one was hurt in that incident. Despite IDF explanations that the forces […]

The Jewish community, here and around the world, equates demographics with survival, so it’s only natural that we obsess over our numbers. But we may be willfully ignoring a plausible solution to our ever-worrisome dwindling Jewish population. Consider: Communal officials today are eagerly anticipating the latest findings of the once-a-decade National Jewish Population Survey, due […]

This past week Israel entered its third year of a war with no name, with nary an ally, and with no objective more glorious than a lull. It’s been a war plagued by indecision and misdirection. The enemy’s leader is harassed but not erased. The country is safe for tourism but the danger is compared […]

DEBKAfile’s readers were not taken aback by the Israeli Shin Beit’s (Security Service) disclosure on September 23 that it had custody of a three-man Palestinian cell from Ramallah who trained in Iraq with Iraqi instructors in the execution of strikes against Israeli targets – in the company of al Qaeda terrorists. Their admissions – which […]

As International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General for 17 years (until 1997), Hans Blix played a major role in allowing Iraq and Iran to develop their nuclear programs. He pronounced Iraq’s nuclear reactors “safeguarded,” meaning there was no threat that equipment could be diverted to nuclear bomb making. He thus made it possible for […]

Two alert IDF soldiers prevented a mega-terrorist attack in the city of Afula early this morning. The soldiers pulled into a gas station close to 2 AM on their way southeastward to Beit She’an and noticed a suspicious bag near one of the pumps. Upon inspecting the bag and discovering a bomb-like device inside, they […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its strong disappointment at President Bush’s announcement that he will not implement the new U.S. law requiring specific steps towards recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol. The new Jerusalem amendment, which was part of the State Department authorization bill that President Bush signed into law on […]

Nothing helps the PA spin doctors like dead kids: In a bulletin issued today, Palestinian Media Watch (www.pmw.org.il) describes renewed PA efforts to recruit children for Shahid (martyrdom) operations, and then exploting the dead children in their international PR campaign against Israel. Here is the text of the bulletin: PMW has documented in the past […]