An amazing reunion took place in Tel Aviv the other day. After being separated for 52 years, 79-year-old Salima Moshe Nissim of the southern Iraqi city of Basra embraced her 83-year-old sister, Marcel Madar. Madar had immigrated to Israel in 1951, when more than 130,000 Jews fled Iraqi anti-Semitism. Nissim stayed behind. Now, finally, there […]

I had an e-mail the other day from some fine fellow who was all upset. “According to you, there will never be peace between Israelis and the Palestinians” he fumed. Not so, dear sir. In fact, if you lived here in Jerusalem as I do, surrounded by Muslim Arabs ?you’d know that in many places, […]

Having called for the dismantling of Hamas and the other terror groups, the seeming acquiescence of the Bush Administration in the Palestinian Arab push for the release of more than 7,000 of their members imprisoned for involvement in a range of terror activities is dismaying. It is especially so when compared with how the Jonathan […]

(Washington, D.C.): Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell did it again. He broke sharply with one of the central tenets of the Bush Administration’s war on terrorism described, among other places, in the White House’s National Strategy for Combating Terrorism published last February: “We must fight terrorist networks, and all those who support their […]

1. The Arab world has never come to terms with Israel`s existence within any set of borders whatsoever and is still seeking the destruction of Israel and its population. 2. Any Palestinian state, regardless of who rules it, will produce escalated violence, terror and warfare in the Middle East. It will seek war with Israel […]

Editor`s Note: This past spring, HarperCollins released a book titled Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America. For obvious reasons, the author was billed as “Anonymous.” Just prior to its publication, “60 Minutes” did a segment on the book and named some […]

The authors of the Road Map have not only seemingly failed to consider the moral implication for the Arabs themselves of a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha), but also completely disregarded other fundamental issues. One of them is the viability of such a state. Already in the 1970s, Israeli Professor Yehoshafat Harkabi, […]

The Bush administration has waived the 10-year ban prohibiting direct aid to the Palestinian Authority. It’s sending $20 million for humanitarian and infrastructure programs. The president believes that this is tangible evidence to Palestinians that life is getting better, which will undermine support for Hamas. (If you listen closely, you may be able to hear […]

Now that we have examined the situation during the time of Israel’s creation, let us look at things as they stand today. The resurrection of the Jewish state and the events of the decades that followed have drastically changed the situation in western Palestine. Demographic changes in the region, with the Jewish state now home […]

In a letter on June 17th to Israeli Prime Minister Sharon, Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein argued forcefully against any negotiated freeing of terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti. At a time when the “Road Map” may demand certain Palestinian terrorist releases as a sign of Israeli “good will,” Rubinstein correctly stated that any freedom for Barghouti in the […]