“If Gush Katif didn’t exist, we would have to invent it,” said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin when touring the Gush Katif region. “You are the first line of defense of this country,” stated Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a speech in Gush Katif, 2002. Today, the Gush Katif region, as well as the western Negev, […]

During Hanukkah, the kids were home on vacation. Here in Hebron, we try to provide daily activities for the children, including parties, trips and the like. On Tuesday, one of my friends approached me and asked if I’d be busy the next day. As all spokespeople are trained to do, I answered his question with […]

A recent conversation I had with a friend brought home, again, the successes and the failures of modern-day Israel. As a secular Jew living in the center of the country, he explained, he has absolutely nothing in common with the Jews who live in Hebron, Beit Haggai, the Gaza Strip, etc. When pressed, he agreed […]

A new state of “Palestine” will very likely be carved out of the still-living body of Israel. Supported by the President of the United States, this 23rd Arab state will quickly try to extend, incrementally, even within the “Green Line” boundaries of Israel itself. Strategically, this Palestinian state \u2014 tied to many terrorist groups and […]

By I. J. Mansdorf, PhD History has taught us that the “Big Lie” often works. As Adolph Hitler learned, repeat something enough times and with enough conviction and people will wind up believing you, even though what you are saying is patently false. Hitler’s lessons are being put into practice today on campuses across the […]

Just before Christmas, the New York Times figured out a way to blame Israel for the exodus of Christians from Bethlehem. This is called journalistic gymnastics. The story by Greg Myre began: In the town where Christians believe Christ was born, the Christians are leaving. Four years of violence, an economic free fall and the […]

Our respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books all quite recently written and published is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims now living […]

The outcome of the election for president of the Palestinian Authority was never in doubt. Mahmoud Abbas, Yasser Arafat’s longtime accomplice — the two men co-founded Fatah, the largest terrorist faction within the PLO, in 1965 — was always going to win in a landslide. The three other candidates were never going to get more […]

Today we think of Fallujah as the site of ongoing battles between courageous American forces and assorted enemy fighters. But back on the last day of March of this year, Fallujah was briefly known for the manifestly unheroic behavior of its Arab/Islamic combatants. Then it was the place where Islamic insurgents openly dramatized their long-cherished […]

The Sharon Plan remains a threat to all of Israel. The Sharon Plan isn’t the Sharon Gaza Plan. It isn’t the Sharon Disengagement Plan. It’s the Sharon Retreat Plan. The people of Gush Katif made it an agenda item for all of the people of Israel when they brought buses from all over the country […]