When MIT Professor Nancy Kanwisher helped launch a petition last spring calling on Harvard and MIT to cut their financial ties to Israel, she saw it as a political protest against Israel’s alleged violation of Palestinians’ human rights. But in the months since she helped gather signatures on the two campuses, her effort has become […]

(IsraelNN.com) Jerusalem like other cities in Israel is preparing a disaster plan in the event of a missile attack launched by Saddam Hussein. Following is a very brief overview involving some of the major preparations involved. TENT CITIES TO BE ESTABLISHED Teddy Stadium and Sacher Park will serve as tent cities to house the homeless […]

Yasser Arafat may have lost some of his personal political clout of late, but the political movement he began – demanding justice for Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homes in 1948 – remains as strong as ever. There’s just one problem. There’s not the slightest historical evidence to suggest Arabs were expelled in significant numbers […]

Who says history can’t repeat itself? The circumstances may be different, but for the second time in 11 years, the presidency of a man named George Bush is being undermined by a senior official named Colin Powell determined to keep Saddam Hussein in power. In 1991, then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell — who vociferously had argued against military action in response to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait […]

Chief Scientist of the Ministry of the National Infrastructures Introduction In the framework of the peace treaty between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan the integrated development Master Plan for the Jordan Rift Valley (JRV) was studied in the mid 1990’s. The Red Sea – Dead Sea Canal (RSDSC) was considered to be one […]

Twenty-four years after the publication of his book `Dado,’ Hanoch Bartov is back with an expanded edition in his campaign to clear the name of David Elazar, the chief of staff in the Yom Kippur War. A few hours before the Passover seder in 1976, David (“Dado”) Elazar called the novelist Hanoch Bartov and told […]

TEL AVIV — Israel is bracing for what defense sources termed a massive pre-positioning of U.S. military equipment in the Jewish state as part of preparations for any Washington-led war against Iraq. The sources said the U.S. Army plans to bring such systems as PAC-2 anti-missile and anti-aircraft batteries, ammunition, military systems and logistical supplies. […]

Why is George W. Bush a president more of word than of deed? Last Wednesday, the president was everywhere. But on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, FDR worked quietly in the White House as America battled Japan on Guadalcanal, U-boats on the Atlantic, and Rommel in Tunisia. In the previous 365 days we had quadrupled […]

THE BUSH PLAN: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” elect new leaders not compromised by […]

Close to 100 Jews took advantage of special military permission to pray at Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem last night – the first time that Jews have been allowed to do so in two years. Buses and private cars brought the worshipers, including family members of terrorism victims from Itamar and other nearby locations. They recited […]