US-Israel People-to-People relations do not evolve around the Oslo Process, but rather around Shared values, Joint regional interests and Mutual regional threats. Israel has been a democratic, able, willing and efficient ally in the context of conflicts between the US and radical regimes, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Mideast radicals have viewed the US as […]

The London based daily Al-Hayat published a letter by S’ud Ibn Muhammad Al-‘Aqili, from the King Fahd National Library in Saudi Arabia, which condemned the Palestinian Authority’s use of children in the Intifada. Following are excerpts from the letter: “It is difficult for me to talk about this subject while [Muslim] clerics keep silent and […]

Survivor, 85, makes translation his mission Mark Swiatlo, 85, of Boca Raton, curator of Florida Atlantic University’s Judaica Collection is a storyteller. He has about 7,300 stories that he is determined to tell. “These testimonies are given by survivors of the Holocaust as early as 1944,” said Swiatlo, who is also a survivor. “They are […]

JERUSALEM (April 18) – The IDF late last night began pulling out of the positions in Gaza that it reoccupied Monday night, with an official in the Prime Minister’s Office saying that it was because “the mission was completed.” Various IDF officers said throughout yesterday that the goal of the operation had been to push […]

(JPFS) At Israel’s request, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is sending a special envoy to Jerusalem to investigate the reports of Islamic Wakf construction work on the Temple Mount, a UNESCO official confirmed this week. The envoy, Prof Oleg Grabar of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, said he […]

16 April: Surrounded by unprecedented security, the defense is due to begin today in the high-stakes trial of four associates of the Saudi billionaire-terrorist Osama Bin Laden before the US District Court of New York. Cuffed and shackled, the four Moslem defendants will hear their lawyers mount a challenge to the weighty 300-count indictment of […]

On May 31, 1994, Kifaya Husayn, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was lashed to a chair by her 32-year-old brother. He gave her a drink of water and told her to recite an Islamic prayer. Then he slashed her throat. Immediately afterward, he ran out into the street, waving the bloody knife and crying, ‘I have […]

For the past few days the children of Kfar Darom have been working all day to eat all of the “Chamatz” (leavened wheat products) which accumulated over the past mouths, especially during Purim. Tonight, half an hour after “Bedikat Chametz” checking to make sure that everything is “Chamatz” free, we too (along with our neighbors) […]

Charles De’Giaialle, lamenting the fractiousness of the French, famously wondered, “How can you govem a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” De Gaulle should have tried dealing with the Israelis. Israel, with more than a dozen feuding parties, is a country in which some people seem to care most about making sure there is […]

Introduction The Palestinian demand for the Right of Return for the refugees was one of the reasons for the failure of the Camp David summit and for the Palestinians’ objection to the Clinton proposals. While the Camp David negotiations and the Clinton proposals focused on the possibility that the refugees would have the right to […]