The most damming thing we can say about the carefully worded, even-handed-to-the-nth degree, mealy-mouthed Mitchell Commission Report is that it lacks even a glimmer of original thinking; it fails to ask even the most rudimentary questions: What is happening in the Middle East? Whose national security interests are at risk?  What steps should the U.S. […]

WASHINGTON – The "Commission on Human Rights" is the group of 52 nations that decided in Geneva last week that China – while torturing and killing members of the Falun Gong, raping Tibet’s culture and imprisoning foreign nationals – was not to be censured in any way. At the same time, the U.N. group, turning […]

THE ARABS DO NOT FINANCE THE PLO. Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil producers bankrolled the Islamic Intifada against the Soviets in Afghanistan (some $1BN in 1985-6), but would not finance the Palestinian Intifada of 1987-92 and the current PLO war on Israel. The October 2000 Arab Summit committed itself to a $1BN aid to […]

One of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood definitions in the dictionary of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the term "occupied territories." The vast majority of people simply do not know the facts or misinterpret them, thus completely distorting the real picture of the land distribution between the Arabs and the Jews. The truth of the […]

Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI joins the civilized world in condemning the bestial terrorist attack Tuesday, May 8, against Ya’akov Mandel and Yosef Ishran, two fourteen-year-olds from Tekoa, a community just southeast of Bethlehem. The boys had been hiking near the Haritoun Cave, only a short distance from their homes, when they were viciously attacked, […]

When a glass breaks in the Caribbean island of Curacao, both Jewish and non-Jewish islanders shout the Papiamentu word beshimanto. It comes from the Hebrew word b’siman tov (“with good tidings”), which is said after the bridegroom breaks the glass. Now the word has been integrated into Curacaoan culture. Curacao’s Jewish community, which established itself […]

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has released a new study making the case for a halt to America’s $2.1-billion in aid to Egypt. The report, “Ten Good Reasons to Stop U.S. Aid to Egypt,” is available by calling the ZOA at 212-481-1500. Highlights of the report: * Egypt incites hatred against […]

INTRODUCTION  by Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato  The friendship between the United States and Israel has been anchored in shared values, common strategic interests, and respect for each other’s independence. Israelis have always insisted on fighting their own battles, a position that the U.S., with its own battles to fight elsewhere around (he globe has deeply […]

To the delight of their enemies, the United States and Israel are making separate, dangerous mistakes about each other. For its part, the new administration, or at least the Colin Powell branch of the State Department, apparently believes that nasty words challenging Israel’s right to defend itself against armed attacks will send the Sharon government […]

In his weekly column in the Egytpian weekly “Ahbar Al-Yaum” [May 5, 2001], renowned Egyptian playwright and supporter of peace, Ali Salem, criticizes the enemies of peace in Egypt. “War between Egypt and Israel is impossible in President Mubarak’s era even if the Israeli public elects Odavia Yosef who is so hateful towards the Arabs. […]