The American State Department criticized both Israel and the Palestinians equally yesterday. It had strong words for Israel’s demolitions of three buildings in Rafiach this week; the structures, adjacent to the IDF’s Tarmit outpost, had been used by the terrorists to dig a tunnel and place a bomb under the outpost on Wednesday, causing the […]

Even if we don’t yet know the whole story about last week’s atrocities, we know enough to act, and to act decisively. The truth is that the international community has not created a new world order in which sponsorship of terrorism by states is beyond the pale. Without the things that only states can provide […]

Commemorating the year-old uprising against Israel, Palestinian university students opened an exhibition Sunday that included a grisly re-enactment of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Wearing a military uniform and a black mask, a Palestinian entered a doorway and set off a fake explosion in a replica of the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, where a suicide […]

According to an interview in a Paris newspaper, President Mubarak of Egypt, ostensibly our chief Arab ally and ruler of a “moderate Arab state,” is refusing military cooperation with the United States against Osama Bin Laden. Claiming to have seen no evidence that Bin Ladin is responsible for the WTC attack, Mubarak joined a growing […]

Two weeks ago, after sending in my last letter, I heard about the terrible bombing attacks in the United States which caused the tragic deaths of thousands of people. Upon receiving the news from a neighbor, I immediately called my mother in Florida to verify that everybody (including my brother and best friend who live […]

“Shimon Peres is the first Israeli astronaut.” So said former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington yesterday, adding, “Peres is in outer space, totally unconnected to what is going on here. He did not learn a thing from the great bloodshed caused by Oslo that he brought us.” Netanyahu was referring to Peres’ dauntless efforts […]

George Bush´s commanding and definitive speech before both houses of Congress may have left its mark on history, but for Israelis, it acted as another disheartening sign that its struggle with terrorism will continue on alone. Here, after all, was the President of the United States cataloging obscure terrorist groups from Uzbekestan to Egypt but […]

The most searing images, of course, are of the aftermath–of the immediate survivors of the dead: parents, siblings, spouses, lovers, friends, hoping against hope that somehow those who live in their hearts might have survived in the flesh. They haunted the grim environs of ground zero with photos and handbills, pressing them onto journalists and […]

Despite the murder of yet another Jewish woman this morning, and despite the fact that some 4/5 of the Israeli public is against a Peres-Arafat meeting, and despite the fact that MK Tzvi Hendel notes that “there is no American pressure, except for that exerted by Colin Powell, on Israel to hold such a meeting” […]

WASHINGTON – The Mossad warned the United States last month that as many as 200 terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden were slipping into the country to prepare a “major assault on the United States,” The Los Angeles Times reported yestarday. The waring to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency was […]