Frightened and shaking, Yasir Arafat jumps out of his bed in the semi-destroyed room in the Mukkata, where he’s been a virtual prisoner for longer than he cared to remember. The world, it seems, has almost forgotten him. Few dignitaries still bother to visit, and the calls for Israel to allow him to leave Ramallah […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is adapted from a speech given last month at the annual conference of the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG). The theme of this year’s CIAG conference was “Countering Suicide Terrorism: Risks, Responsibilities and Realities.” At any gathering of analysts, academics, and law-enforcement officers who specialize […]

The unofficial website of Gush Katif, katif.net, received the following letter from soldiers of the Givati Brigade: Dear Gush Katif residents, A week ago we lost six fighters from our unit. During these difficult hours, we were able to feel how those whom we are protecting show their gratefulness to us – by coming to […]

(Washington, D.C.): The London Economist Magazine last week emblazoned its front cover with the two-word headline “Resign, Rumsfeld.” In so doing, it succinctly captured the gambit embraced lately by many prominent Democrats, anti-war critics, Bushophobes and opinion elites: Seizing upon the pretext of the widely felt need to appease the Arab world in the wake […]

I would like to preface what I am going to say with the fact that I was once very committed to Leftist/Liberal notions of peacemaking, but realities since 9/11 struck me very hard. I was forced to shed the beautiful notions of peace and humanitarianism as the means to achieve peace, in the face of […]

TEL AVIV – Israel has been urged by leading strategists to plan preemptive strikes against weapons of mass destruction arsenals in the Middle East. A report, entitled “Israel’s Strategic Future,” asserted that Israel must prevent the formation of an enemy WMD coalition through such means as conventional preemptive strikes against vital facilities. The report said […]

Discussing Iraq last month on Washington Journal, C-SPAN’s live call-in program, two callers \x{2014} one American and one British \x{2014} telephoned to ask whether I was Jewish. I am and said so. Both suggested that Jews were responsible for sending American soldiers into harms way. This was ironic since I volunteered for duty in Iraq, […]

Whence comes the main danger to homeland security in North America and Western Europe? With the single exception of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, notes Al-Qaeda authority Rohan Gunaratna, all major terrorist attacks of the past decade in the West have been carried out by immigrants. A closer look finds that these were not […]

This morning, I paid a shiva call to Sara and Michael Newman’s house, the parents who lost their wonderful son Eitan when his tank went over a bomb in the Gaza Strip last week. They buried him last Thursday, after his comrades, under constant fire from terrorists, combed the dangerous streets to bring his holy […]

At its annual conference in Washington, D.C. on May 16th 2004, the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee rejected the participation of all Israeli members of the Israeli parliament who campaigned against implementation of the Prime Minster’s withdrawal plan. Herbert Zweibon, National Chairman of Americans for a Safe Israel expressed shock that the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee […]