Soldiers manning a combat bulldozer are suddenly attacked by armed militiamen; a civilian mob joins the attack, providing cover for the gunmen. THe soldiers call for help and soon Cobra helicopters are firing volleys of antitank missiles and 20-mm cannon on the crowd below. Within minutes almost 100 of the attackers, mostly civilians, are dead. […]

JERUSALEM (December 24) – The condition of two of the three soldiers wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Friday afternoon at the Mehola Junction roadside cafe in the northern Jordan Valley remained serious last night, while a third soldier was listed as lightly wounded. Two Palestinians also died in weekend violence in the West […]

JERUSALEM (Deccember 24) – Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert charged on Friday that Israel had agreed to give the Palestinians full sovereignty over the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in addition to control over the Temple Mount as part of a final peace agreement. “We have also agreed to give the Palestinians full sovereignty […]

Israelis have good reason to be suspicious when Yasser Arafat calls for U.N. intervention to “protect” his people from Israel. The Palestinian leader, despite his violent career, has always enjoyed preferential treatment at the world body, even as the U.N. consistently shows antipathy toward Israel. But this isn’t just a preference for the “freedom fighter” […]

For decades, the United States has pursued a fairly consistent policy toward the Arab-Israel conflict: help Israel be strong while pressuring it to make concessions. So ingrained has this dual approach become that it is hardly noticed. Everyone expects Washington to provide financial aid to Israel, sell it high-technology armaments, and support it diplomatically in […]

Almost from the moment KLM flight # 462 took off from Tel Aviv on December 10, carrying interfaith members of Bridges for Peace Solidarity Mission back home to the US, we began to receive propaganda and distorted accounts refuting what we had just witnessed with our own eyes. The BBC World News report of the […]

In Our Hearts We Were Giants By Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev Carroll & Graf, 305 pages, $25. Imagine the terror of a having a vicious German Shepherd bark at you on the train platform at Auschwitz. Now imagine that the dog is barking at you as your tiny body is lifted from a cattle […]

Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer announced last night that he plans to dismantle ten “illegal” outposts in Judea and Samaria today, as well as several more in the days following. He said he would do so “with or without” the consent of the designated evacuees. The minister apparently knew, however, that there would in fact be no […]

A young woman and her baby were attacked on a train in a Paris suburb on Saturday by a group of young North African men who mistook her for a Jewess. The six attackers slashed the 23-year-old woman’s shirt with knives, holding her down as they drew swastikas on her body. They further knocked the […]

The Nasser 3 has been fired of late from Gaza into Israel\u2019s pre-1967 borders in expectation of an Israeli retreat from Gaza. According to a MidEastWeb.com report, IDF sources believe that Hamas is manufacturing the new rockets. The new \u2018Nasser 3\u2019 rockets were the ones fired from Gaza towards the southern Israeli town of Sderot […]