On July 15, 1789, a day after the fall of the notorious Bastille, peasants in many places in France revolted in order to demolish the remnants of the feudal system that day is commemorated as The Great Fear. The French had waited for decades for the monarchy and reigning governments to do something to alleviate […]

This is supposed to be my last month as a fighter. I was recently married. As a result, the army wants to switch me over to being a driver. On the one hand, I joined the Israeli army to fight for the nation. On the other hand, as a driver I could be home every […]

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei recently visited Israel, trying to convince Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to scrap his country’s presumed nuclear arsenal as part of a regional peace agreement. In the best of all possible worlds, such a proposal might be reasonable. But in the chronically unstable Middle East \u2014 where several Islamist […]

Twice in recent days Israels High Court ordered a halt to construction of portions of the security fence on the grounds that it was inconveniencing Arab residents. The principle behind the court decision was morally wrong. Saving lives is more important than sparing people from inconvenience. In the first decision, the court ordered the government […]

Recently I again visited some of the wonderful and essential Jewish communities in Gush Katif in Gaza. My son Mayer, a yeshiva student at the Israeli hesder Yeshiva Kerem BeYavneh (KBY), and I were members of an Orthodox Union (OU) Israel Mission to learn about and strengthen Jews under siege in Israel. It is not […]

I knew this day would come. It was the seventh day of Passover, and I stood – on purpose – in the very back of the synagogue, dreading the inevitable. I watched as most of my fellow congregants silently exited the room as Yizkor, the memorial prayer for the dead, was about to begin. But […]

This editorial suggests to us that the use of the word disengagement (from Gaza) is, in fact, a euphemism for retreat. It speculates on the motives of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who rejected the idea of evacuating Gaza settlements during his election campaign, and also the motives of former prime ministers who have also made […]

Anti-Semitism in Greece occurs not only among extreme rightists and leftists. It is embedded in Greek mainstream society and manifests itself in religious contexts, education, politics and the media. Jews are often not perceived as true Greeks, although many families have lived there since the 15th century. A Eurobarometer survey in the year 2000 showed […]

Al-Majd TV, a United Arab Emirates religious channel, hosted Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Sami Abu Zuhri, and Faraj Shalhoub, an expert on Palestinian affairs, to discuss the recruitment and training of Palestinian suicide bombers. This episode was translated by the recently initiated MEMRI TV Monitor Project.The following are excerpts from the program, which can be […]

NEW YORK- Nine U.S. Senators have sent a letter to President Bush, urging him to pressure Egypt to shut down the tunnels from Egypt to Gaza that are used to smuggle weapons to Palestinian Arab terrorists. The letter points out that 90% of the Gaza weapons are coming from Egypt, and asks the president to […]