I have been lecturing widely on the risks which the Road Map poses to Israel. Yet, whenever I complete my largely analytic examination of the issues, I am left with a vague feeling of discomfort — a feeling that I have left my audience without enough concrete recommendations for practical action. With this in mind, […]

The Jerusalem Post took a strong editorial stand today, calling on Israel to kill Yasser Arafat: “The world will not help us; we must help ourselves. We must kill as many of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders as possible, as quickly as possible, while minimizing collateral damage, but not letting that damage stop us. […]

Ten years later, it is embarrassing to recall the elation and soaring expectations. President Bill Clinton lauded it as a “great occasion of history.” Secretary of State Warren Christopher ruminated on how “the impossible is within our reach.” Yasser Arafat called it an “historic event, inaugurating a new epoch.” Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of Israel […]

Stop thinking like a Westerner and you will begin to understand terrorism. There was virtually no guilt trip for destroying the great cities of Nazi Germany, Japan or Korea. Once upon a time democracies knew their enemies and were able to determine general target locations. There was no moral problem with bombing Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima […]

Out of the Belly of the State Department comes a prime directive to the Media to characterize Yassir Arafat’s quick pick of Ahmed Qurei (aka Abu Ala) as a “moderate”. In order to keep President Bush’s fantasy “Road Map” which is already on a heart-lung machine, the following has begun. A Media push is on […]

Randall Royer, David Hicks, Jack Roche, Christian Ganczarski. These aren’t the names one expects to see when reviewing a list of those charged with participation in international Islamic terrorism. However, a disturbing number of converts have turned to militancy in a quest to add direction to their lives. Disillusioned with mainstream society, these disaffected men […]

In late July I contacted Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman and director of communications at the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). When he returned my call, he presented his point of view about the Arab-Israeli conflict and militant Islam. When I reminded him about CAIR`s record of openly supporting Hamas, Hizbullah and other organizations deemed by the […]

The Israeli planes that flew over Auschwitz this week are a tragic reminder that Allied planes also flew over the notorious Nazi death camp – but failed to bomb the gas chambers and crematoria where an estimated 1.5-million Jews were murdered. The Israeli planes were over Poland this past Thursday, September 4, to take part […]

The Refugee Question Critics of Israel from the moderate (my former position) to the most extreme portray it as an example of colonialism: European settlers push out the native population turning them into homeless refugees. And sure, they say, those Europeans were themselves victims of genocide, but do two wrongs make a right? There are […]

Title: The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest Author: Peter Duffy Publisher: HarperCollins. New York. 302 pages. $25.95 The calculus of public recognition is, at best, an inexact science. Even a subject as morally freighted as the Holocaust falls […]