Our friends in the U.S. Congress may have thought that they were supporting Israel when they overwhelmingly passed HR 460 and SR 393 regarding U.S. policy on Israel. We, at Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI believe they signed on because of a misunderstanding as to what is \u201cgood\u201d for Israel. The immediate result of both […]

As Israel considers involving Egyptian troops in the aftermath of a withdrawal from Gaza, a United States Congressman is warning the Jewish State to beware of Egypt\u2019s intentions. Congressman Tom Lantos (Calif.), the ranking Democrat in the House International Relations Committee, said that Egypt is building up its military in preparation for a future war […]

Two patterns have shaped Israel’s history since 1992 and go far to explain Israel’s predicament today. First, every elected prime minister has broken his word on how he would deal with the Arabs. Second, each one of them has adopted a unexpectedly concessionary approach. Here is one example of deception from each of the four […]

NEW YORK – While the international community focuses on Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza, Palestinian Arab construction in those territories rose nearly 27% this year, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. According to Israeli government estimates, Arabs have been building at ten times the rate of Jews in the territories. The pro-Arafat newspaper Arab […]

Stories from the major press plus a note from an Israeli source provide food for thought. It has been just over three months since Palestinian suicide bombers last struck inside Israel – the longest such lull in more than three years. Almost everyone has a theory… the barrier Israel is erecting in the West Bank, […]

UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the world organization’s first-ever seminar on anti-Semitism on Monday that Jews must feel “the United Nations is their home.” Author Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, told the seminar that he thought anti-Semitism had died at Auschwitz. However, he said, it has turned out that […]

Neoconservatism is finished. According to the conventional wisdom, the Pentagon’s top neocons — Paul D. Wolfowitz, Douglas J. Feith and William J. Luti — have been discredited by the insurgency in Iraq, Abu Ghraib and growing public discontent with the war. The United Nations has been invited back — begged, really — while the organization’s […]

I am an Israeli but I also regard myself as a Palestinian – a Jewish Palestinian. My father was born and raised in Palestine as was his father, grandfather, great grandfather and so on for many generations. In fact the Bregmans have lived on this land – first Palestine then Israel – since around 1754. […]

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 […]

(Editor’s note: Ms. Bayefsky delivered this speech at the U.N. at a conference on Confronting Anti-Semitism: Education for Tolerance and Understanding, sponsored by the United Nations Department of Information, this morning.) I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you at this first U.N. conference on anti-Semitism, which is being convened six decades after the organization’s […]