Yasser Arafat dominated the scene of the Arab/Israeli conflict for over fifty years. Now that he has died, many believe that new leadership will emerge and that peace will finally come to the Holy Land. Is that a valid assumption? What are the facts? Review of an Evil Life: Review of an Evil Life: In […]

Twenty-three years ago, when we were rather new to Shiloh, I remember hearing my neighbor say that she had instructed her husband that she’d rather see him jailed than buried. Unfortunately, that’s a choice many have made, and things aren’t getting any better. There are quite a few Jews imprisoned or tangled in legal quagmires […]

Ayatollah Khomeini, in the foreword to his book on Islamic government, offered remarks which are today still taken as the dominant and incontestable orthodoxy in Iran: “The Islamic Movement was afflicted by the Jews from its very beginnings, when they began their hostile activity….” Continuing on “The Zionist Problem” in Al-Ahram, Dr. Yahya al-Rakhawi writes: […]

JERUSALEM – Senior ‘Palestinian’ figures Tuesday said Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was a victory for the four-year terrorist campaign against the nation’s Jewish population. They also said the Israeli retreat would not result in a cessation of attacks emanating from the coastal strip, and in fact would probably lead to an increase […]

For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on Muslims. If searching for rapists, one looks only at the male population. Similarly, if searching for Islamists (adherents of radical Islam), one looks at the Muslim population. And so, I was encouraged by a […]

A young cadet in the IDF Officers Training School has been expelled from the school because he said he would not fulfill orders, if given, to destroy Jewish communities. The soldier was taking part in a class on democratic ideals and refusal. The issue arose during discussion about last year’s “Pilots’ Letter,” in which a […]

This week, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, who commanded the IDF’s Southern Command from 2000-2003, wrote a paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs entitled “Lessons of the Gaza Security Fence for the West Bank.” In his paper Almog explains that the fence around Gaza has blocked 30 percent of the attempted terror attacks on […]

Israel may learn from history. Volume III of Plutarch`s “Sayings of Spartain Mothers” reveals the Spartan mother as one who rears her sons for sacrifice on the altar of civic necessity. Such a mother was altogether pleased to learn that her son had died “in a manner worthy of his self, his country, and his […]

We certainly do not advocate law breaking and we hope a confrontation will yet be avoided, but we still think it worth remarking on the double standard being woodenly applied to those Jewish settlers in Gaza and the West Bank who plan a show of civil disobedience in protest against their forced relocation. The settlers, […]

Herzliya, Israel ‘ In the course of hours of presentations by assorted Israeli, American and European “peace processors” during a conference here, the slogan from a once-popular bumper sticker kept coming to mind: Friends don’t let friends commit suicide. Unfortunately, the latest of the annual Herzliya conferences suggests that, unless Israel’s friends ‘ including, notably, […]