TEL AVIV ‘ Israel`s government is considering major changes in the military to facilitate a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in 2005. Officials said the changes could end more than 15 years of rising influence by Orthodox Jews and Israeli residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the military. […]

Has no one learned anything? On Sept. 13, 1993, I was on the White House lawn watching the signing of the Oslo accords. I also watched the intellectual collapse of the entire Middle East intelligentsia — journalists, politicians, “experts” — as they swooned at the famous handshake between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin and refused, […]

A new specter is haunting the far-left fever swamps that fester in certain corners of Israeli universities. Israel Academia Monitor, like its American cousin Campus Watch, has begun recording the more outrageous words of academic extremists. The US website has long been controversial for publishing some of the loopier statements of faculty members who pose […]

Five Israeli Defense Force soldiers are suing a Palestinian filmmaker for allegedly falsifying information in a documentary claiming Israeli forces committed genocide in a refugee camp, while a French producer is screening a film using video footage to dispute the Palestinian claims. The five IDF soldiers were seen in still footage in “Jenin, Jenin,” a […]

It is hard to imagine an anti-Semite going to a Jewish doctor with a broken foot, and holding out his foot, telling him, “Here, fix this, you Jew bastard.” And yet this is what is happening today, but with a different twist. It is now, although virtually unreported by the world’s press, a case of, […]

SHARON ON GAZA “I also recommended the establishment of several Jewish settlements, Jewish ‘fingers’ as I called them, to divide the Gaza district….all of them built, like the Judean and Samarian settlements, on state-owned land. Standing with the cabinet members on a high hill of dunes, I pointed out exactly what I thought we needed. […]

“Our residents are fed up. I don’t know what has to be done, but perhaps Gaza should be flattened and rebuilt,” the mayor of the besieged town of S’derot told Arutz-7 Monday. Mayor Eli Moyal aimed his complaints against the government and not the army. “The government cannot hide under the slogan that it is […]

Thousands of Jewish Israeli women marry Arabs, unwittingly entering a trap of torture. Mayaan Jaffe goes behind the scenes to see how some of them are rescued. Black eyes. Bruises. Blood. Out of the refuse of a Gaza town, Aliza [all names have been changed] emerged a broken woman. With tears streaming down her face […]

These days, we hear many hysterical voices – in the Israeli government, the army and the media – proclaiming that civil disobedience threatens the foundation of the nation. In fact, the very opposite is the case. Civil disobedience is the root and cornerstone of Am Yisrael (the People of Israel). This week’s Torah portion brings […]

In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the global war on terror that quickly ensued, it is difficult to remember that the first challenge to American security that the Bush administration encountered came not from the Arabs but from the Chinese. On April 1, 2001, the Chinese government […]