The Israeli government is getting ready to offer down payments to voluntary evacuees from 21 Gaza settlements and four West Bank locations that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon plans to remove by the end of 2005. This move is designed to stimulate departures and jump the gun on two major delaying factors: the cabinet only […]

Global Jihad (Arab holy war) is intensifying. In Nigeria last week, Muslim mobs brandishing machetes butchered some thirty Christians in the streets of the city of Kano. They butchered them and then set them aflame. American contractors are murdered in Iraq, their abused corpses triumphantly dragged through the streets and displayed hanging from a bridge. […]

Some say that we are re-living the 1930s. I disagree. Today, the danger to Jews is far graver and more complex than it was in the pagan or medieval-Christian world, or during World War Two. Today, anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American propaganda has gone global. It is visually masterful, technologically sophisticated, and available around the clock, […]

The overwhelming feeling one has when traveling through the beautiful springtime mountains and valleys of Israel, visiting the residents of Gush Katif/Gaza, Judea and Samaria, is that those who are governing Israel have a great disconnect from the land and the people. Prime Minister Sharon doesnt understand that his proclamations about making areas of Israel […]

What really happened ten years ago, in Hebron, at the Cave of Machpela – the Tomb of the Patriarchs – or, as the Arabs call it, the Ibrahimi Mosque? The short answer everyone “knows,” is that Dr. Baruch Goldstein carried out a massacre on the Jewish holiday of Purim, February 25, 1994. But a new […]

> Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli Arab, is the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S. News and World Report. He previously served as a senior writer for the Jerusalem Report, and a correspondent for Al-Fajr. He has produced several documentaries on the Palestinians for the BBC and many other networks, […]

Israel has just completed an essential defensive operation against terrorists in Rafah. Although televised images of this Gaza operation suggested cruelty and indiscriminate action by Israeli forces, exactly the opposite is true. By deliberately placing young Arab children in the front of large mobs that advanced menacingly upon Israeli soldiers, Palestinian leaders openly committed major […]

Colin Powell has got some nerve. After a week in which 13 young Israeli soldiers had been killed by Palestinian terrorists, who then paraded the body parts of their victims through the streets of Gaza, the US secretary of state could find nothing better to do than to cozy up to the Palestinians and criticize […]

And Down Comes Crashing Yet Another Leftist SLAPP Harassment Suit SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation. SLAPP suits are anti-democratic harassment “libel” suits filed by people to suppress the free speech of their critics. In Israel, leftist extremists have filed a rash of these harassment suits in recent years as a tactic to […]

A familiar news story: A hard-line government uses its powerful military to launch a unilateral pre-emptive strike. The United Nations and Europe are horrified, along with most of the American media. They condemn the strike and brush off claims that it was justified as an act of self-defense against an unpredictable tyrant. So was it […]