Tatiana Sofanova, a non-Jewish Russian woman who was blinded when she attempted to uproot a booby-trapped sign reading, “Death to the Jews,” has been cured by Israeli doctors. She was traveling on a highway near Moscow with her mother and daughter when she saw the sign. Offended by the message of hate, she stopped the […]

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 […]

The Knesset is due to vote two days from now, July 17, on the POW-MIA Bill, what could be a significant step forward in the effort to gain information on missing Israelis. If the bill is passed, no peace agreement with Syria, Lebanon or the Palestinian Authority will be valid unless the entity with which […]

Israel’s first astronaut, Air Force Col. Ilan Ramon, is still unsure if and when his scheduled NASA space-shuttle launch will take place. NASA announced on Friday that mysterious fuel-line fractures will keep four upcoming space shuttles grounded for at least two more months – although the tiny cracks are now considered less of a safety […]

At the heart of the Palestinian diplomatic struggle against Israel is the repeated assertion that the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are resisting “occupation.” Speaking recently on CNN’s Larry King Weekend, Hanan Ashrawi hoped that the U.S. war on terrorism would lead to new diplomatic initiatives to address its root “causes.” She […]

It is a tribute to the hypocrisy and duplicity of the UN that Syria assumed the Presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. After passing numerous resolutions condemning terrorism in the strongest possible terms, the Security Council conferred its highest office upon one of the world’s best known state sponsors of terrorism. […]

THIS SPRING, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights held its 58th annual meeting, the month-long event at which it conducts all of its business. For the first time ever, the United States did not participate. The effects were evident. Although fewer than one-third of the UN’s members sit on the human-rights commission at any […]

An IDF force found and destroyed yet another arms-smuggling tunnel in southern Gaza last night. One of the commanding officers of the tunnels-searching unit said that the network of tunnels is the “oxygen of the Palestinian Authority’s entire system of war materials… Day and night, we are constantly engaged in searching for these tunnels, including […]

(IsraelNN.com) Two soldiers were wounded in the bomb attack earlier tonight near the entrance to the Gush Etzion community of Efrat, at Checkpoint 130. An army patrol was inspecting a new unpaved road leading to an area industrial park when the explosive device was detonated. Two soldiers were injured. According to EMS personnel on the […]

(Washington, D.C.): The FBI’s depiction of the murderous 4th of July attack at Los Angeles International (LAX) must have struck most Americans as utterly bizarre. After all, it occurred on a day when the entire country was on alert for terrorist attacks; it was conducted by an Egyptian immigrant, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, armed with two […]