Israel’s 19, 312 fallen soldiers were remembered today – both collectively and as individuals. All the names of the soldiers and policemen who fell in the line of duty are being screened continuously on Israel Television’s Channel 33; name, rank, and Hebrew and Gregorian date of death are shown, in chronological order, for five seconds. […]

NEW YORK – In yet another violation of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, Egypt is refusing to return its ambassador to Israel until Israel agrees to make more one-sided concessions to Yasir Arafat. The Israel-Egypt peace treaty requires Egypt to maintain normal diplomatic relations with Israel. Yet the Egyptian government withdrew its ambassador from Israel last […]

Continued from Part I… Shlomo Ben-Ami was Israel’s top negotiator during the July 2000 Camp David summit. There has been much speculation and analysis about the reasons for the summit’s failure. However, first-hand accounts of what went on behind closed doors have been limited. Ben-Ami, who is a history professor and whose performance at Camp […]

Warsaw Ghetto: a name, a phrase, familiar to most people today only as a matter of history. Important history, yes, but dry and impersonal just the same. Because even the most vivid of photographs and the most descriptive of texts, whether found on the pages of books or the walls of museams, cannot begin to […]

Ex-NSA op blows whistle in 73 killings of American diplomats in Sudan embassy On Feb. 28, 1973, James J. Welsh, the National Security Agency’s Palestinian analyst, was summoned by a colleague about a communication intercepted from Yasser Arafat involving an imminent Black September operation in Khartoum, Sudan. Within minutes, Welsh recalls, the director of the […]

Since we don’t yet have a food store in Kfar Darom, and people don’t want to live only on the delicious lettuce and greens which the farmers in our community grow, we have to buy our food elsewhere. Many of the larger families buy their goods in the cities nearby, while smaller families, like ours […]

SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL’s spokesman, Boucher (April 17, 2001): “The hostilities last night in Gaza were precipitated by the provocative Palestinian mortar attacks on Israel. The Israeli response was excessive and disproportionate.” REALLY??? THE POWELL DOCTRINE: Deployment of a disproportionate military power, in order to pound the enemy into submission. “‘The biggest s.o.b. on the […]

Shlomo Ben-Ami was Israel’s top negotiator during the July 2000 Camp David summit. There has been much speculation and analysis about the reasons for the summit’s failure. However, first-hand accounts of what went on behind closed doors have been limited. Ben-Ami, who is a history professor and whose performance at Camp David advanced him to […]

At a staff meeting in September 1993, our news agency, whose purpose it is to provide continuing factual coverage for the foreign media, made a policy decision: to find out firsthand how the new Palestinian Arab entity would view Israel, and to determine if their recognition of Israel would indeed be real. We raised funds […]

Perhaps in an effort to assuage the fears of those who anticipate a renewal of negotations with the PLO, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he will not uproot any Jewish communities in the context of a future diplomatic deal with the Arabs. In an exclusive interview with Ha’aretz newspaper, Sharon said: ” I do not […]