New York – In a recent opinion piece, Professor Efraim Inbar, Professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and the Director of the Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies, analyzes developments within the Palestinian Authority (PA) and concludes that the paradigm of a two-state solution, with a Palestinian state neighboring the state of Israel, is […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 2, 2006 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1138622536769&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull On Thursday, for the second time this week, a group of Palestinian terrorists took over the European Union’s offices in Gaza. Armed with rifles, the terrorists demanded an official apology from the Danish government for caricatures of Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper last September. At […]

By Boaz Moshkovich – Israelinsider – February 1, 2006 Translated from Hebrew by Amiel Ungar [May be reprinted with accreditation to author, translator and Israelinsider.com] Let me refer to a familiar joke: two Jews are standing with their backs to the wall waiting to be executed. The officer commanding the firing squad approaches them offering […]

Reactions to the lopsided Hamas victory over Fatah last week in the Palestinian Authority elections divided into three. Some, like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee expressed dismay, worried about Hamas openly boasting of its goal to destroy the Jewish state, seeing this as the end of the peace process. Others, such as former president […]

by Ellen W. Horowitz Arutz Sheva Jan 29, ’06 / 29 Tevet 5766 “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.” — Plato Please world, spare me the shocking reactions and earthshaking headline stuff. I don’t think the average Israeli man or […]

By: Dov Gilor Wednesday, January 25, 2006 We rarely, if ever, speak of the fact that Israel has been good to us. I guess it is not the social norm to comment about the good and the commonplace. After 33 years of living in Israel, however, maybe the time has come to evaluate our decision […]

The strong showing of Hamas in the Palestinian elections is worrisome to Israel, the United States and most European states. However, it is not surprising. The United States classified Hamas as ”a terrorist group.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated ”It is not possible to have one foot in terrorism and the other foot in […]

Aaron Lerner Date: 26 January 2006 If the Palestinian Authority (PA) gives all the armed terrorists day jobs as cops would that constitute “breaking up the terror infrastructure”? The PA leadership thinks so. And Israel’s Foreign Minister Livni, perhaps out of a desire to keep Israel’ s options open, declines to take a position. This […]

Perhaps the best indication of the extent to which the world has been Orwellized is the toady news coverage of the Palestinian “election”, including in the Israeli media, itself largely the occupied territory of the far-left. For months, the media were all in suspense over whether the victors in the “election” would be the Hamas […]

Investment in education 17% Economics 15% Aaron Lerner Date: 24 January 2006 Maagar Mochot for Mishal Cham television program – telephone poll of a representative sample of 513 adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out on 23 January 2006 [all results are net undecided] 42 [00] Kadima 16 [40] Likud 19 [21] Labor 00 [15] […]