JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has asked its security and emergency services to complete preparations for a possible U.S. attack on Iraq — and an Iraqi counterstrike against Israel — by Nov. 1, officials said Tuesday. The United States has not told Israel if or when it will attack Iraq, and Nov. 1 was chosen by […]

IT HAS been said—by me, among others—thatGeorge W. Bush bears a closer political resemblance to Ronald Reagan than to his father. The first, and most obvious, similarity is that “Dubya,” like Reagan before him, was and still is very widely regarded as insufficiently intelligent or well-informed to be President. By now, the idea of Reagan […]

The IDF top brass is furious at the decision by Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer to appoint an investigative committee to look into the killing of “innocent” Arabs during army offensives over the past few days. Senior officers warn that the findings might lead to new restrictions on opening fire at terrorists, leading to increased risk […]

No this is not a spoof. You may recall the “Tantura Affair” at the University of Haifa a couple of years back. This was a case of leftist pseudo-scholarship, fraud, and fabrication of a “massacre” of Arabs by the Jews in 1948, invented by University of Haifa leftist extremists. In 1948, a Palmach unit conquered […]

A young husband and wife were seriously wounded last night, and two other people were lightly wounded, by a terrorist who infiltrated into the community of Har Brachah. Bystanders and the civilian patrol, including Arutz-7’s Idan M., responded quickly and impressively, and the terrorist was killed within a short time with no further casualties. The […]

Four persons were wounded, two seriously, when a terrorist infiltrated the Shomron community of Har Bracha shortly after 8:00pm tonight. The terrorist opened fire with a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle in the area of the community’s hesder yeshiva, wounding a young couple seriously. The wife, 23, who is pregnant, was hit in the chest by […]

(IsraelNN.com) Security forces on the Sabbath discovered Qassam rockets in Gaza ready for launching. The rockets were aimed at the Erez Industrial Park in northern Gush Katif.

One of my daughters spent last year in the Shomron community of Eli, doing her first year of voluntary service. Religious girls, rather than serve in the army, volunteer for a year or two. She celebrated this past Shabbat at the community, as they marked the 18th anniversary of the founding of Eli. On Saturday […]

WASHINGTON — I was dubious at first. But now I think Dick Cheney has it right. Making the case for going to war in the Middle East to veterans on Monday, the vice president said that “our goal would be . . . a government that is democratic and pluralistic, a nation where the human […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has agreed to convene a restricted forum of ministers and other public officials to discuss the danger that the Temple Mount’s southern wall may collapse. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein, security force heads and Antiquities Authority officials are expected to participate. The issue burst onto the public scene yesterday […]