At the British Parliament, on June 28, 2001, Lord George Weidenfeld addressed the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on Syria and its government education system on the basis of a recent study of Syria’s government textbooks by MEMRI (Dr. Meyrav Wurmser, “The Schools of Ba’athism” – 2000). Following is the text of his […]

In 1981, Shimon Peres failed in his attempts to coax Prime Minister Begin into restraint in face of the Iraqi nuclear threat, to refrain from a drastic military offensive and to be preoccupied with the diplomatic option. Peres contended – backed by the heads of the Mossad and Israel’s military intelligence – that success was […]

Background: On the afternoon of June 2, 2001, the international media reported that Yasir Arafat had ordered his forces to immediately halt all violence against Israel. U.S.Secretary of State Colin Powell said on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” on June 3, 2001 that Arafat “has a great deal control” over the violence and, in addition, “he […]

(Tel Aviv) – The European Commission, a sub-group of the European Union, is busily underwriting the activities and projects of a number of left-wing organizations in Israel. The sum of nearly five million Euros has been earmarked for 17 Israeli leftist organizations, many of which not only enjoy close ties to Peace Now but are […]

WORLD RECORD: Arafat command more “domestic security organizations” (12) and “security personnel” (60,000) per capita (2.5MN) than either Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan or N. Korea! 2.5MN Palestinians oppressed by Arafat and his 60,000 “Tunisians”, imported from terrorist bases in Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Jordan and Lebanon. “Palestinians see a society that is […]

The leading Egyptian government paper, in its weekly supplement,(1) Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, blames the US for the Cole bombing. Following are excerpts from the report: “According to the Egyptian weekly, the reasons for the crisis are ‘disagreements between Washington and San’aa, regarding the method of the criminal investigation carried out by Yemen.’ As a result, ‘the […]

In doing so, they must strip their policies of the comforting illusions of the past decade and soberly construct a new strategy to deal with that confrontation if they are to turn crisis into opportunity. When Illusions Die A previous collapse of a policy that had affected an entire continent for a decade took place […]

After spending a week in Kfar Darom, my family and I went back to Jerusalem to spend the rest of their stay in the big city near the famous kosher Kentucky Fried Chicken, Sabarro’s and Burger King. After sadly parting from them, Chana and I made our way back home. Since I was quite busy […]

There are moments in history where a policy that had dominated the hopes of an entire foreign policy community collapses. Sometimes, if the illusion was expansive and entrenched deeply enough, the consequences of that collapse effect not only a nation, but even a continet or a region. What that happens, a new enviroment of war […]

A few years ago, an Arab group killed a number of American soldiers in a terrorist attack in a German night club. The United States retaliated for the terrorist attack by bombing Khadafy’s headquarters in Libya. One act of terrorism resulted in a quick American military response. Israel has suffered, and is still suffering, many […]