Government intimidation has left two women in Gush Katif with bitter thoughts and emotions towards Sharon. They do not compare the expulsion with the Holocaust, but some feelings are similar. A longtime Gush Katif resident and farmer, Anita Tucker, a native New Yorker, said she and her friends live their lives regularly. “I feel I […]

FAR MAIMON, Israel \u2014 Walking among the tens of thousands of Israeli protesters here this week was like being witness to a miracle. There in the scorching summer heat were thousands upon thousands of families with children of all ages, young men and women and elderly people, living under siege and in conditions that would […]

Al Qaeda’s first coordinated bomb attacks on London’s public transport which shocked Britain on July 7 were mounted at the same time as the G8 summit in Scotland. The death toll rose to 56 with 700 wounded and an unknown number of victims still missing. The Islamists not only directed their destructive urge against London, […]

As a Jew who cares very deeply about Israel even though he does not yet reside there, I wish to raise several important questions regarding the situation there as I perceive it from the relative stability of New York City. A great many things that seem to be taken for granted strike me as so […]

New York – Trudy Rubin, long-time Mideast senior columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose leftwing record is well-known, has unequivocally stated that Israelâ\u20ac\u2122s Gaza/Samaria withdrawal/expulsion plan rewards Palestinian Arab terrorism, undermines Israel â\u20ac\u2122s security and greatly strengthens Hamas. Rubin said she just came back from Lebanon and saw first hand how strong Hezbollah has become […]

DOLGELLAU, Wales \u2014 Thank goodness for those history channels that bring back the generals and politicians of the past who, by contrast, make many of today’s leaders look indecisive. I saw President Harry Truman on one of them last week. In a speech to the nation near the end of World War II, Truman rejected […]

New York – Danny Rubinstein is the most prominent journalist in Israel covering Palestinian Arab affairs. He has been writing on this issue for 30 years. He authored a biography of the terrorist leader Yasser Arafat and formerly wrote for the Labor Party/Histadrut newspaper Davar. Writing today (7/18/05) in the prestigious leftwing Israeli daily Haaretz […]

Palestinian Responses to an Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza In early February 2004, when I realized that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was indeed serious about pulling Israeli troops and civilians from Gaza, I warned (http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1532) against this on the grounds that “Palestinian Arabs will see a pullback signaling that Israel is weak, appeasing, and vulnerable. Far […]

LEGITIMATE DISSENT IS NOT A CRIME. Nadia Matar, leader of Women for Israel’s Tomorrow, is being persecuted by the Government of Israel for being a good Jew. Nadia did not foment a rebellion. She did not incite the People of Israel to revolt. Neither did she call for insurrection or political subversion. She did not […]

Reacting to Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Pact with Adolf Hitler in the British Parliament in October 1938, Winston Churchill warned, “You have to consider the character of the Nazi movement and the rule which it implies There can never be friendship between the British democracy and the Nazi power, that power which spurns Christian ethics, which […]