BY ALEX ALEXIEV President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s UN rant against the Great Satan got banner headlines around the world last week. But two smaller news items out of Iran, largely unnoticed, tell us far more about where Iran is heading and how U.S. policies can nudge the belligerent regime in the right direction. The first report: […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 18, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467765896&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull There are two reasons that IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz’s resignation this week was essential. First, during the war last summer with Hizbullah, Halutz failed to conceive of a war fighting plan for the IDF. Having failed, he needed to go. Second, both […]

On her current trip to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been meeting with a series of Arab leaders, patting each one on the back and heaping praise on them for their supposed “moderation”. But just who is a “moderate Arab leader”, and is Secretary Rice making a grave mistake when […]

Does Baker really believe that a connection exists between the Palestinian issue and Islamic terrorism? Does he actually assume that the less-than-a-century-old Palestinian issue is the core cause of the 13-century-old Islamic terrorism and Mideast violence? Iffff there were such a connection, then it would behoove the US to focus on minimizing Mideast violence and […]

Institute for Contemporary Affairs founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 6, No. 17 – 18 January 2007 The Arab World’s Political Dilemma: Between Islamic “Resistance” and the Western State System Pinhas Inbari * What type of political system does the Arab world want to have? Normal […]

By: Editorial Board Jewish Press Wednesday, January 17, 2007 We admit to some uneasiness about urging censorship on campus. As members of a minority group we are all too aware where such things can lead. But some positions are not debatable, and providing those who promulgate them a forum is akin to offering a platform […]

January 15, 2007 — Has a former president of the United States – a Nobel Peace Prize winner, no less – given his blessing to wanton murder and terrorist assaults against Israel? Sure looks that way. How else to read that astonishing statement on page 213 of Jimmy Carter’s new anti-Israel screed, “Palestine: Peace, Not […]

by Mordechai Ben Menachem Arutz Sheva January 17, 2007 When Yitzhak Rabin ran for election as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1992, he publicly declared at a giant election rally just two weeks before the election, “Whosoever gives up the Golan Heights, abandons the security of the State of Israel.” Only days after a UN resolution […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Jewish Press Wednesday, January 10, 2007 What [would be] the effect of Israel-PA agreements in bringing about a Palestinian state? Here, it is altogether probable that Israel’s substantial loss of strategic depth would be recognized by Iran as a significant military liability for Tel-Aviv. Such recognition, in turn, could heat up […]

From the July 18, 2005 issue: A special report on the new evidence of collaboration between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda. by Stephen F. Hayes & Thomas Joscelyn The Weekly Standard 07/18/2005, Volume 010, Issue 41 “In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of […]