The court decision is being heralded as a huge victory for Israeli civil liberties, as it marks the first time damages were awarded on the grounds of false house arrest and administrative detention. Federman claims that he has been a long-time target of the Jewish (national) section of the Shin Bet (Shabak / General Security […]

Islamic terrorism is the greatest threat to the free world today, and the only appropriate response is unrelenting battle until the day of ultimate victory, a resolute US President George W. Bush declared Thursday. His was a statement recognizing reality and acknowledging the responsibility of dealing with that reality to ensure the safety of our […]

Last week Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded to a question at Princeton University about America being soft on Hamas with a carefully crafted statement that was not only soft on Hamas but soft on Palestinian terror in general. Instead of calling on the Palestinian Authority to immediately disarm the terrorists, Rice showed understanding for […]

The announcements this week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s top advisers, in-house generals and Vice Premier Shimon Peres (along with Sharon’s dubious denials) that the government will now begin planning more land giveaways to the Palestinians after last month’s destruction of our communities in Gaza and northern Samaria ought to have caused a furor in […]

Ariel Sharon’s morally indefensible and strategically suicidal policy has been implemented, uprooting long-established prosperous communities, creating deep fissures in Israeli society and giving enormous impetus to Arab terror groups, which rightly see this retreat as their victory. At the very least, as Michael Freund has pointed out in The Jerusalem Post, one would have expected […]

The announcements this week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s top advisers, in-house generals and Vice Premier Shimon Peres (along with Sharon’s dubious denials) that the government will now begin planning more land giveaways to the Palestinians after last month’s destruction of our communities in Gaza and northern Samaria ought to have caused a furor in […]

I’ve long suspected that it is the Israeli grand strategy to defeat the Palestinians by forcing them to laugh themselves to death. That seems to be the only possible way to understand the latest resuscitation of the RRH Doctrine, which has dominated Israeli policy toward the Palestinians and the Arab states since the early 1990`s. […]

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Aharon Levran, a former senior IDF Intelligence officer, has nothing but ridicule for the government’s claims of a “new strategic offensive policy” regarding the Gaza Strip. Commentators have noted that yesterday was the first time since the Six Day War in 1967 that Israeli artillery fired into Gaza, in response to the latest […]

It took just 12 days from completion of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza before rockets started raining down on the Western Negev area from the now-unoccupied territory. The attacks late Friday might have occurred sooner had the terrorists not been preoccupied with torching synagogues and destroying flower-growing operations in Gaza that could have been used to […]

Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon missed a golden opportunity to address the future of the West Bank before the 170 world leaders who had gathered at the United Nations last week to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the founding of that organization. Instead, the words he uttered were sweet music to the ears of most […]