Despite the official designation of Yasser Arafat as the head of a “terrorism-supporting entity,” Foreign Minister Shimon Peres spoke with him today – twice. “He called me,” Peres told reporters today, “and said that he can’t make arrests because Israel is stopping him from moving his forces. I told him that it’s now up to […]

Among the lessons that should be drawn from the fall of Kabul is the fact that the world owes Ariel Sharon and Israel an apology. I say this because of the massacres now being calmly and indifferently reported from Afghanistan. When the Northern Alliance took Kabul and other areas, it made short shrift of any […]

“…At the head of the Israeli government stands a man who only a year ago was ‘Mr. Security’ – a man who has failed the test of bringing results… If Palestinian terrorism were an uncontrolled malignancy in a civilized environment, it would be possible to conduct a “tweezer war” against it, but the war is […]

News of a secret missile deal raises serious concerns for stability in two of the globe’s most volatile regions. Congress summoned administration officials to testify Friday at a hearing on reports that North Korea has agreed to sell Egypt two dozen Rodong long-range missiles and related technology. The Rodong’s 620-mile range is more than triple […]

Environment Minister Tzachi HaNegbi says that Israel must wage total war against and “completely defeat its enemy, the PLO.” MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) said today that Prime Minister Sharon must dismantle the Palestinian Authority at once and order the army to re-take security control over all of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. “If not, […]

WASHINGTON — After his meeting with President Bush and just before flying back to his stunned and bloodied Israel, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returned the call of a longtime supporter. Is he depressed in the face of all the carnage? The latest reports were of nearly 30 Israelis dead, hundreds injured, in three suicide bombings […]

After a week where funeral followed funeral, Saturday night´s terror attack on the youth of Jerusalem was too much to take. Everyone knows that it´s the kids who are out in the cafes of downtown Jerusalem at 11:30 p.m on a Saturday night. The corner where the first two explosions pierced the night was home […]

At 11:30 PM last night., two Arab suicide bombers detonated powerful explosives seconds apart on Luntz Street in downtown Jerusalem, killing 11 and injuring over 180. The suicide bombers had laced their bodies with nails and screws in order to inflict as much harm as possible to the many civilians who were dining in the […]

(Washington, D.C.): A growing focus of policy debate in Washington and around the world is whether, and if so when, President Bush will launch a second phase of the war on terrorism against Iraq. While there is a growing appreciation that Saddam Hussein must be removed from power, there is considerable uncertainty about–and in some […]

(Part II, The Strategic Picture) Israel is surrounded by land on three sides, the sea on the fourth.  To the north are Lebanon and Syria, hostile themselves and permitting Iran to maintain a missile force in central Lebanon and support for Hizbullah terrorists in the south.  Immediately on the east is the Palestinian Authority, with […]