Can words be used as a weapon? The Palestinian Authority seems to think so. In mantra-like fashion, their leaders and spokespersons continue to attribute the incessant violence in the area to the “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza. Just give us back our land, they say, and peace will surely be attained. Terrorists kill. […]

Ahmad Al-Rab’i, a columnist for the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, recently apologized to his readers for reporting the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) version of the Karine A weapons ship affair. Al-Rab’i called on his readers not to believe the PA’s declarations any longer.(1) Following are excerpts: “When Israel announced that it had seized the [Karine […]

“Last Sunday, Yasser Arafat published an 1,100 word op-ed column, “The Palestinian Vision of Peace,” in the New York Times. In it, he wrote that the Palestinian people yearn to live “as an equal neighbor alongside Israel with peace and security for both.” And he made a point of denouncing the murderers who have spilled […]

(25 February 2002 – 21:30) Two terrorists opened fire at the last stop of the No. 25 bus in northern Jerusalem’s N’vei Yaakov neighborhood at about 6:30pm. Ten persons were wounded by gunfire, four seriously, including three policepersons. Police arrived on the scene of the shooting attack almost immediately, opening fire at the terrorists, as […]

A controversial American Islamic advocacy group has planned a voter registration drive to coincide with the upcoming Muslim holiday at the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, alleged to have ties to terrorist groups such as Hamas, says “our goal, insha’Allah (if Allah wills), is to register more than 100,000 […]

The Security Cabinet decided this morning, after more than three hours of debate, to compromise on the delicate issue of whether to release Yasser Arafat from his confinement in a Ramallah compound. Israeli tanks have kept him holed up there since early December, after 30 Jews were massacred over a four-day period in Haifa, Jerusalem […]

The reaction of Tourism Minister Benny Elon (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) to today’s decision: “I’m not happy with it, because we have already resolved that Arafat is irrelevant, yet look how much time we spend talking about him. I don’t care about Arafat; I want actions, not words – we’re already in a war, so let […]

If Israel pinpoints and executes terrorists who have aided in planning attacks on innocent civilians, that is bad. If the United States declares war on terrorist leaders who aided in planning attacks in New York and Washington, that is good. If Israel has to compromise some civil rights of Arabs in order to promote its […]

It is so clear that holdovers from the previous two administrations wrote Secretary Powells foreign policy speech, that we were surprised by two fundamental, huge, glaring, practically unforgivable MISTAKES of AMERICAN HISTORY/POLICY. “The Middle East has always needed active American engagement for there to be progress, and we will provide it, just as we have […]

Arabs on Saturday night opened fire on an Israeli vehicle in the area of the Bir Zeit Bridge, 20 kilometers north of Jerusalem. Two of the four people in the car were moderately wounded by the gunfire. They continued driving to an army checkpoint, where they reported being hit. The two were airlifted to Hadassah […]