The issue of transfer – that is, relocating Arabs out of western Eretz Yisrael – remains very controversial to the present day. The main reason for this is obvious. The vast majority of Jews consider it to be immoral. The stigma of immorality attached to this subject is especially troublesome, because, according to many surveys, […]

It is quite sad to see the anger and frustration portrayed in the words of Mr. Thomas Friedman in his May 11 New York Times op-ed piece entitled “Father & Sons.” He transmits a sense of desperation that unless his vision of peace in the Middle East will be accepted, there can be no peace. […]

If you’ve followed the war on terror with any degree of care, you know that Daniel Pipes has been a major player in our debates over what to do about militant Islam. To his great credit, Pipes was one of the very few scholars who warned the country, well before September 11, of the potential […]

Middle Easterners were widely puzzled in early 1994 when some leading American politicians, including Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), forwarded more assertive, tougher positions vis-à-vis the Palestinians than did the government of Israel. They were, for example, more reluctant than Jerusalem to let U.S. funds go to the PLO and they […]

What would American citizens say if President George W. Bush issued a broad release, pardoning convicted murderers, rapists and terrorists? That is what President Bush has ordered Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to do as a ‘confidence-building gesture’ to the Arab Palestinians so they will trust that their newly appointed Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (aka […]

Division of Labor – Clash of Objectives? “Israel’s position is clear,” Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz told the media after his three-hour meeting with Palestinian interior security minister Mohammed Dahlan on Sunday, July 6. “The Palestinian Authority has assumed responsibility for terror prevention in the areas turned over by Israel. Its next obligation is to […]

Suppose 1300 Israelis had been killed in one day. Wouldn’t that be war? Instead that same amount of murder has been spread over some two years. So what do we have? Merely a “situation”. Two years, one day, what’s the difference? That’s still 1,300 Israelis dead. In the event of such wholesale catastrophe within a […]

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it…” Thus begins the Covenant of Death, officially known as “The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement” [Hamas]. To grasp the true nature of the war that is being waged against the Jewish State of Israel, and not only by the Arabs in […]

The following is a letter to the U.S. Ambassador to Israel from David Bedein, Media Analyst and Bureau Chief of the Israel Resource News Agency at the Bet Agron International Press Center in Jerusalem. The full text of the Palestinian Authority’s Constitution can be compared here in English or Arabic (final, official draft), courtesy of […]

When the War of Independence began, it quickly assumed the nature of a civil war. Those opposing the declaration of statehood fought alongside the organized armies of their kinsmen that invaded the territory of the infant state from all directions. The fighting was bloody, and the opponents of independence used terrorism against the population defending […]