This postmortem analysis is an after-the-campaign report to all those who were involved in implementing a national campaign to prevent a leftist victory in the Israeli 2006 elections, with all its ramifications. Results Approximately two months prior to the elections, it became clear to concerned people on the ideological right that the new party of […]

A little over two years ago, Waheed Mahmood and his companion, Omar Khyam, held a fateful conversation in a car that turned out to have been bugged by police. “Is it worth getting all the brothers together tonight and asking who would be ready to go?” Mahmood asked. This apparently referred to the bombing of […]

By Ari Shavit Haaretz April 15, 2006 Good morning, Ehud Olmert. This morning is no ordinary morning. This morning is this morning. From this day forth you, Ehud Ben Mordechai and Bella Olmert, are the prime minister of Israel. You know full well, Mr. Prime Minister, that your selection was the result of massive spin. […]

by Daniel Pipes New York Sun April 4, 2006 Since I argued in a column last week that Israel can and must defeat the Palestinian Arabs, a barrage of responses have contested this thesis. Some were trivial (Ha’aretz published an article challenging my right to opine on such matters because I do not live in […]

Good morning, Ehud Olmert. This morning is no ordinary morning. This morning is this morning. From this day forth you, Ehud Ben Mordechai and Bella Olmert, are the prime minister of Israel. You know full well, Mr. Prime Minister, that your selection was the result of massive spin. The one elected in the 2006 elections […]

How realistic are those, who blur the security indispensability of the Judea & Samaria (J&S) mountain ridges, which constitute the “Golan Heights” of Jerusalem, of the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem freeway and of the coastal plain? If they would merely assume that the peace treaty with Jordan, and the demise of the Saddam regime, have eliminated the […]

The recently published 83-page so-called study “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by the University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Stephen Walt makes a fundamental claim: that the U.S. has given”‘unwavering support” to Israel. This is demonstrably untrue. History shows that while the U.S. record on Israel is better than that of any […]

Here are some of the reasons we love Israel, in no particular order: 1. The clock radio rouses me with “Shema Yisrael,” the Jewish pledge of allegiance, and the weather is nearly always fine. 2. On Memorial Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day, the act of remembering halts traffic. 3. The Israel Prize recognizes lifetime achievement […]

By: Dr. Phyllis Chesler Wednesday, April 5, 2006 As Americans, we have a long and legendary history of welcoming and assimilating immigrants. This includes granting political asylum to those in flight from political persecution. But as Americans we must also ensure that what has gone wrong in Europe – or what some are now calling […]

Jennifer Loewenstein has a history of radical anti-Israel activities including a failed attempt to twin the city of Madison, Wisconsin with Rafah in the Gaza Strip and propagating falsehoods surrounding the 2002 Israeli military operation in Jenin. Loewenstein has now been given the opportunity to spread further distortions in the Madison Capital Times. Loewenstein falsely […]