http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Following the massacre by mostly Muslim terrorists in Beslan, Russia, that killed, at last count, 338 people, including at least 156 children, and wounded hundreds of others, a rare voice of reason was heard from an unlikely place. Abdulrahman al-Rashed, general manager of Al-Arabiya television in Dubai, wrote in a London Arabic newspaper, […]

[How is it that only the Israelis know that World War III started on September 11, 2001?] If you throw a rock into the middle of a wolf pack, the one that yelps is the one that got hit. So goes the old American proverb. My rock – choosing to call “Palestinians” by the allegorical […]

For weeks now, the FBI has carried out in the press a prosecution of individuals and organizations it has so far been unable or unwilling to pursue in court. Using innuendo and a steady stream of (often recycled) press leaks, the names and reputations of a number of people “including several who are senior officials […]

At first glance, it seems an oxymoron: Jewish Democrats For Bush. But in these unusual times where Greenpeace, the ecology group, has been seen to be promoting ecological damage and where it’s no longer politically correct to be different, Jewish Democrats for Bush actually makes sense. To understand how such a group could come about, […]

My decision to vote for the reelection of President George W. Bush, despite the fact that I am a life-long Democrat, has caused some to call me a turncoat. But am I really? Or am I moving in a direction the Democratic Party itself should be going? As mayor of New York City, I described […]

One of the salient points of Judaism is that it treats and deals with individuals and their behavior while at the same time it sponsors a program for the national entity, as well. In Judaism, the individual is responsible not only for personal behavior but for society as a whole. The Talmud long ago reminded […]

There is a line connecting this weekend’s mass murder in a school in North Ossetia, the ongoing genocide in Sudan, the bomb blasts on Madrid trains, the bombing of Istanbul synagogues and the suicide bombings in Be’er Sheva. That line is Islamic – for the most part Arab – terrorism and it endangers world peace, […]

VOA’s Ed Warner recently spoke with Political Science Professor Louis Rene Beres, about Project Daniel – a group advising Israel’s prime minister on nuclear weapons policy. Ed Warner – Tell us about Project Daniel and its importance to Israels nuclear policy? Louis Rene Beres, Political Science and International Law Professor, Purdue University and Chairman of […]

Last month I joined the Rabbinical Congress of Peace delegation to Capitol Hill which attempted to explain to U.S. lawmakers the futility and danger of the “land for peace” formula that has become almost a religion in Israel and the world over. For years now it has been assumed that if Israel makes concessions, it […]

Week before last I wrote about HBO`S airing of the Miller/Shah film Death in Gaza, which is being shown for two weeks. Because I failed to persuade HBO to consider airing any one of Pierre Rehov`s extraordinary films about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, I decided to post two of his films on my own website for […]