An article by Dr. Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Effendi, a Sudanese author and researcher who resides in London, appeared in the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat. The article was titled, “Fighting Corruption [in the Arab World] is Like Fighting Catholicism in the Vatican.” The following are excerpts from the article:(1) Corruption Only Has Meaning in An Open and […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday that Iraq – not the Palestinians – represents Israel’s greatest threat. Sharon added that strategic cooperation between Israel and the United States in dealing with Saddam Hussein’s regime “has reached unprecedented dimensions.” The Prime Minister said that while Israel is not trying […]

What is this business with the Peace Bloc all about? What makes them wish to inform on IDF officers at the International Court in the Hague? Have they gone out of their minds? How could they commit such blatant acts of treachery? Two elements are involved in this issue. The first is an ancient Jewish […]

In this wire: I. Baghdad is Expecting a ‘Hot Fall’ and a Protracted War II. Uday’s Ideas on Handling the American Threat to Iraq III. An Iraqi Magazine Demands an Unbiased International Investigation of the ‘Blix File’ IV. Iraq Reacts to Australia’s Hostile Position by Reducing its Wheat Imports V. Uday Criticizes an Official Decision […]

The PA, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad are discussing a proposal to restrict all terrorist attacks to Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Middle East expert Dr. Yuval Ochana told Arutz-7 today that we are now at the beginning of the twilight period of the current intifada period: “The Palestinians realize that they have lost, that all their […]

Cities of Israel (COI), a grassroots movement working to neutralize the dangers of the Oslo Agreements, is working hard to get the following message across: Tens of thousands of guns still remain in enemy hands, despite the anti-terror Operations Defensive Shield and Determined Path. Members of COI stood outside the home of MK Rabbi Chaim […]

Relatives and athletes joined in a memorial service Sunday for the 11 Israelis killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, standing in a moment of silence, listening to songs and speeches and promising not to forget the victims. Amid extraordinary security and in cool, drizzly weather, 25 relatives of the athletes who were killed attended the […]

31-year-old Yafit Herenstein, mother of two little girls – 2.5 years and four months old – was murdered in an attack last night by an Arab terrorist in the Jordan Valley community of Mechora. Her husband remains in serious condition in an intensive care unit in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital. The murderer penetrated the town’s western […]

To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. Acknowledged by the United Nations and the civilized community of nations, Israel became a recognized and sovereign state on May 14, 1948. Immediately, the five armies of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (which was renamed Jordan one year later, in 1949), Lebanon and Iraq […]

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that international economic sanctions, U.S. military air patrols and other measures over the past decade have largely failed to contain Iraq’s potential for menacing other nations. His remarks at a Pentagon news conference represented one of the most emphatic rationales offered so far by a senior administration official […]