March 7:  Israel prime minister-elect Ariel Sharon made surprise additions to his national unity cabinet 24 hours before its presentation to the Knesset Wednesday as an afterthought. After Labor’s designated defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer invited left-of-center Dalia Rabin-Pelosof to become deputy defense minister, Sharon moved to correct his government’s slide towards the Oslo faction and […]

It should be the fundamental position of the U.S. Government that the Government of Israel is the only legitimate body for making security decisions about the borders of the State of Israel. Contrary to the beliefs of some and the preferences of others, the United States must decline to tell the Government of Israel that […]

Palestinian assailants hurled two firebombs this morning along the Tunnels Highway south of Jerusalem, causing a car wreck in which four Israelis were injured. The driver of the car lost control of the vehicle when he slammed on his brakes and hit a roadside fence. An Arab vehicle then hit him from behind, injuring occupants […]

March 4: As Mofaz has emphasized, the spiraling terrorist blight is scaled up obliges the IDF to operate on a broader, more comprehensive scale. DEBKAfile’s military sources outline a limited operational plan that is ready to go.Special Forces units, General Command, Golani, Givati, Nahal, Duchifat and Shaldag will ordered to carry out short in-and-out forays […]

JERUSALEM (March 4) – Despite congressional testimony to the contrary, the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday refuted the claim that Prime Minister Ehud Barak made three calls to then president Bill Clinton in a bid to gain a pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich. According to testimony given Thursday to the House Government Reform Committee hearing […]

NEW YORK – The State Department’s annual human rights report, which was released this week, ignores the role of Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority leadership in organizing violence against Israel, and whitewashes the constant Palestinian Arab attacks on Jewish holy sites. Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), said: […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has challenged Secretary of State Colin Powell’s statements blaming “both sides” for the current Palestinian Arab violence against Israel, thereby equating Israeli self-defense measures with Palestinian Arab terrorism. In his press conference with Yasir Arafat in Ramallah on February 25, 2001, Powell stated four different times that […]

Safire warned that the State Department is “still dominated by the same Clinton crowd that brought us the giveaway peace process that started a war.” Safire added: After Palestinians rejected the Clinton-Barak plan to divide Jerusalem (thereby revealing that their hunger would not be satisfied until Arabs “returned” to take over all of Israel, Yasir […]

NEW YORK – The State Department’s annual human rights report, which was released this week, ignores the role of Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority leadership in organizing violence against Israel, and whitewashes the constant Palestinian Arab attacks on Jewish holy sites. Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), said: […]

Dear Prime Minister-elect Sharon: We have noted with interest your call to Diaspora Jewry on February 22, 2001 to “voice its opinions on keeping Jerusalem undivided.” We understand that you see American Jewry “as a major strategic asset to Israel,” and you intend to develop and nurture the relationship. We, at Americans for a Safe […]