By: Steven Plaut Wednesday, May 9, 2007 • “Israelis have no history in the Land because they are Khazars, who are not connected to the land…” – Al Hayat Al Jadida, June 16, 2003 •”…Oddly, the Zionists were mostly non-Jews whose ancestors had themselves converted to Judaism around 800 AD in a place called Khazaria, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres, Lt. General Thomas McInernery, USAF (Ret.) Tuesday, May 22, 2007 As part of its overall strategy of security and deterrence, Israel may increasingly choose to rely upon its own “Arrow” anti-missile system for active defense. The problem is that even the very best system of ballistic missile defense can never be […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 21, 2007 The Olmert-Livni-Peretz government is incapable of learning. This is the only possible explanation for its handling of the Palestinian assault on southern Israel which has seen some 200 rockets and missiles fall on Sderot, southern Ashkelon and the surrounding areas in the past week alone. On Sunday, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, May 16, 2007 First published here almost one year ago, Professor Beres’ column about Prime Minister Olmert’s devastating policy errors was a warning unheeded. Written even before the 2006 Lebanon War fiasco, it takes on new and especially urgent meanings following the scathing report by Israel’s Winograd Commission. In essence, […]

Did George Tenet threaten to resign as CIA director if Jonathan Pollard were to be released as part of the 1998 Wye River interim peace agreement with Israel? By Marc Perelman – The Forward [NY] – Friday May 18, 2007 www.forward.com/articles/former-cia-chief-changes-tune-on-pollard-story/ According to news reports at the time, then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had insisted […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Jewish Press Wednesday, May 16, 2007 First published here almost one year ago, Professor Beres’ column about Prime Minister Olmert’s devastating policy errors was a warning unheeded. Written even before the 2006 Lebanon War fiasco, it takes on new and especially urgent meanings following the scathing report by Israel’s Winograd Commission. […]

Daryl Temkin, Ph.D. May 15, 2007 I wonder who will remember one of the most important events in modern Jewish history? I am afraid that for most of the Jewish world, yet alone the non-Jewish world, this calendar date will lapse with barely a blink. In Israel, events are marked by their Hebrew calendar date, […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 14, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708600683&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Last week the EU-financed Peace Now organization held an “Alternative Jerusalem Day” ceremony in which it called for Israel to renounce its sovereignty over half of the city in the interests of peace. Why anyone would believe that an Israeli surrender of the eternal capital of […]

by Larry Domnitch Arutz Sheva May 16, 2007 There is a recurring theme related to Jerusalem. There is a recurring theme associated with Jerusalem – that of Jewish unity. Jerusalem is the “city of peace,” although it has been conquered thirty-six times in its long history. The psalmist King David wrote, “The built-up Jerusalem is […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 10, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708574884&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle% In an interview last Friday with Ma’ariv, former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya’alon expressed his view that the ongoing debate in Israel regarding the solution to the conflict with the Palestinians is an exercise in futility. As he put it, “We argue […]