Yesterday’s announcement of the discovery of an Israeli-Arab terrorist cell responsible for the murder of 35 people still has Israel reeling. Interior Minister Eli Yeshai said yesterday that he would take steps to revoke the citizenship or residency status of the Israeli-Arabs found to be involved in terrorist activities. MK Michael Kleiner (Herut) said, however, […]

“This time, it won’t be just a ‘mistake,’ but rather the conscious abandonment of Jewish life.” So wrote the Hevron Jewish Community to Prime Minister Sharon today, referring to the possibility that the IDF may once again withdraw from Hevron and hand over security control to the Palestinian Authority. IDF Central Region Commander Maj.-Gen. Moshe […]

(Washington, D.C.): In a major address yesterday in Houston, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay demonstrated the leadership qualities that have earned him the moniker “The Hammer.” As the excerpted remarks below suggest, Rep. DeLay has as clear a vision as President Bush of the mortal threat posed to this country, to its allies and to […]

Egypt-U.S. relations have had their ups and downs in recent years. In what has become routine every few months, the Egyptian government and opposition press assail the American administration for its policies in the region. Since September 11, 2001, the crisis has intensified on a number of issues: U.S. activity in Afghanistan, the U.S. war […]

(IsraelNN.com) Introduction: PMW has repeatedly documented that the Palestinian Authority [PA] has been pushing their children to see Shahada – Death for Allah – as something expected of them. In a televised gathering on Sunday, Yasser Arafat himself clearly encouraged young children to seek death, as he glorified a famous child Shahid [“Martyr”]. In addition, […]

JERUSALEM – As yet another wave of Palestinian terrorism broke out last week, Israelis learned that the radical left-wing Israeli organization Gush Shalom was collecting information on the actions of Israel Defense Force officers that might be submitted as part of war crimes charges to the new International Criminal Court in The Hague. Gush Shalom […]

CNN is broadcasting a 5 part series of videotapes August 18-22, discovered by Nic Robertson (a CNN reporter) which show Al Qaeda experiments and training in producing and testing deadly gas and nerve agents. The first day’s films show noxious white gas visibly creeping across the floor toward a dog, who salivates, convulses and, finally, […]

Housing Minister Natan Sharansky calls it a new version of the Oslo Agreement – but that did not stop Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer from agreeing to undertake the “Gaza and Bethlehem First” agreement with officials of the Palestinian Authority. At a meeting with Muhammad Dahlan last night, it was agreed that Israel would begin easing […]

(Washington, D.C.): Like a chorus of Hamlets, a number of Republican elders have recently begun wringing their hands in public over President Bush’s evident determination to liberate the people of Iraq and, thereby, end the mortal peril Saddam Hussein poses to them and the rest of us. To be sure, few, if any, of the […]

Safety and security — that´s what´s on the minds of American Jews these days. Jewish newspapers are replete with stories of stepped up security patrols at Jewish institutions and of sky rocketing insurance bills for synagogues, schools and JCCs because of the perceived security threat. Yet, the fear about security in the US pales when […]