Commemorating the year-old uprising against Israel, Palestinian university students opened an exhibition Sunday that included a grisly re-enactment of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. Wearing a military uniform and a black mask, a Palestinian entered a doorway and set off a fake explosion in a replica of the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem, where a suicide […]

“Shimon Peres is the first Israeli astronaut.” So said former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington yesterday, adding, “Peres is in outer space, totally unconnected to what is going on here. He did not learn a thing from the great bloodshed caused by Oslo that he brought us.” Netanyahu was referring to Peres’ dauntless efforts […]

Despite the murder of yet another Jewish woman this morning, and despite the fact that some 4/5 of the Israeli public is against a Peres-Arafat meeting, and despite the fact that MK Tzvi Hendel notes that “there is no American pressure, except for that exerted by Colin Powell, on Israel to hold such a meeting” […]

WASHINGTON – The Mossad warned the United States last month that as many as 200 terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden were slipping into the country to prepare a “major assault on the United States,” The Los Angeles Times reported yestarday. The waring to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency was […]

(IsraelNationalNews.com) Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reported that there are many intelligence community warnings regarding suicide bombing attacks. He added the appropriate agencies are taking all necessary precautions. It is noteworthy to point out that both the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations have rejected the latest PA-declared cease-fire.

Israel’s security cabinet decided last night, despite strong American pressure, not to allow Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to meet with Yasser Arafat. However, at the same time it kept the door slightly ajar by continuing the policy of military restraint. IDF soldiers are now forbidden to open fire at terrorists unless immediate danger is apparent. […]

Despite the position of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is responsible for the force being exerted on Israel to meet with Arafat, there are those in the Bush Administration who are in favor of a more militant position. Vice President Dick Cheney and Pentagon officials favor expanding the American military option, and want […]

For the sixth time this year, and the first time in Arabic, Yasser Arafat announced a ceasefire in his war against Israel this week – but it is not working. The “quiet” was slightly marred on the first day of Rosh HaShanah (Tuesday) with the hurling of some 60 grenades at an IDF post in […]

(Sept.19- 22:42) Despite the PA once again committing to another cease-fire, terrorist attacks throughout Yesha continue. On Wednesday night, a bomb was detonated against the security vehicle of the Shomron community of Oranit, located near the Green Line just five kilometers (three miles) from Petach Tikvah. Two persons were moderately wounded in the attack. Earlier […]

In a well-known article by two American scholars, which was published in translation recently in Azure, the high quality journal of Israeli thought, the scholars James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling maintain that criminal behavior, is left untreated, leads to the collapse of the community’s mechanisms for self-defense. In neighborhoods in which this takes […]