Friday afternoon, Soheila Hoshi, 47, a mother of four children ages nine to eighteen, completed her weekly shopping at Jerusalem’s colorful outdoor market known as Machane Yehuda. She was a regular at the market, picking up last minute fruits, vegetables and goodies for the family meal. As Soheila waited for the bus, a young Palestinian […]

The Arab media has in recent days focused much attention on the consequences of the Jenin refugee camp battle, which according to their reports, resulted in a massacre, perpetuated by the Israeli army. At the same time, the Arab media published numerous testimonies given by commanders of the Palestinian factions in Jenin, both during the […]

In face of the world’s demand to investigate Israel’s behavior during the Jenin battles, President Moshe Katzav had this to say today: “With all due respect to self-righteousness, the international community must stop applying a double-standard. I do not understand why the world community has been silent for over one and a half years in […]

“I have awakened to anti-Semitism these days,” wrote the American Jewish author Jonathan Rosen in an article in the New York Times Magazine last November. An odd statement for someone as well-versed as he in Jewish matters. What Jew, less than a lifetime after the Holocaust, should have to “awaken” to anti-Semitism? Where had Mr. […]

German police have instructed Jewish residents in Berlin not to appear in public with clothes that identify them as Jewish, in order to avoid being attacked. Officials there are on a “maximum security” alert for possible attacks against Jewish targets throughout the country. “The threat is getting closer,” acknowledges Paul Spiegel, president of Germany’s Central […]

EVER SINCE the very beginning of the war into which the United States was violently hurled on September 11, efforts have been made to define its nature. The Bush administration, from the President on down, kept telling us that this would be a war unlike any other, but the very nearly self-evident truth of that […]

Perhaps never since the days of the Holocaust have our people been confronted by such dangers as we are facing today. I know from whence I speak, for I am a survivor of Bergen Belsen. But there is one enormous difference between then and now. When I was deported to Bergen Belsen, there was no […]

Lt.-Col. Tal, who lives in a Jezreel Valley with his wife and three daughters, fought in the recent anti-terrorism offensive in Jenin. “[We] went to great lengths to avoid hurting civilians,” he said. “[We] discovered that the Palestinian shooters were using civilians as shields. A shooter inside a house might hide behind an old woman, […]

“Demolishing the homes of Arab civilians…” “Shooting handcuffed prisoners…” “Forcing local Arabs to test areas where mines may have been planted…” These sound like the sort of accusations made by British and other European officials concerning Israel’s recent actions in Jenin. In fact, they are descriptions from official British documents concerning the methods used by […]

An IDF Intelligence report gives both passing and failing grades to the just-concluded Operation Defensive Shield. The report, which was submitted to the government ministers today, states that leading Hamas terrorist leaders in Shechem, Ramallah, and Tul Karem were not caught, and that they are already working to rejuvenate the destroyed terrorist infrastructures. IDF Intelligence […]