Haifa – As we have more than once noted, though Arabs constitute about 20% of the population of Israel, Jews have very little social contact with them. Residents of the Arab towns and villages live in what is, in effect, a ghetto, from which many of them emerge daily to take jobs alongside Jews as […]

The journalist who visited Karnei Shomron intended to write an in-depth article. He wasn’t interested in details of the Likud Conference and didn’t even mention Rabin’s murder. He asked substantive questions and our conversation became increasingly serious. “You say that Sharon is incapable of extricating us from the crisis,” the journalist stated. “So who is […]

Even now, even after repeated Hamas bomb attacks on Israeli buses, nurseries and preschools, some will argue passionately that the ends of such barbaric Palestinian violence justify the means – that an end to the so-called Israeli “occupation” justifies premeditated murder of “any and all Israelis.” Leaving aside both ordinary ethical standards (by which this […]

Ninety-nine Americans out of 100 have probably never heard of the United States Institute for Peace, but that hasn’t stopped a pitched battle from breaking out over President Bush’s nomination of Daniel Pipes to the institute’s board of directors. The USIP was created by an act of Congress in 1984 “to promote international peace and […]

NEW YORK- Secretary of State Powell has declared his “regret” that Israel eliminated another Hamas terrorist leader, prompting the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to declare its regret that Powell is continuing his policy of trying to protect Hamas leaders from Israel, even though Hamas has murdered 30 Americans and hundreds of Israelis since 1993 […]

Israel’s 55th birthday this week is a time to step back, if just for a moment, from the whirlwind of daily events — terrorist attacks against Israelis, road map prognostications, internal Palestinian maneuvering, Labor Party changes in Israel — and reflect on the larger picture. The story of Israel these last 55 years, above all, […]

(Washington, D.C.): With the grace and speed of a child’s toy top, Saudi Arabia’s top public relations “spinner,” Adel al-Jubeir, has been whirling across the airwaves and newsprint of the American media ever since the Kingdom experienced last week’s wave of murderous, terrorist bombings. Mr. al-Jubeir’s ubiquitousness (notably, in place of Prince Bandar, the equally […]

Scorecard: Israel 1, Arab states 0. That about sums it up. Israel held elections at the end of January 2003 and three Arab-led parties won 9 seats in the Knesset, Israel`s parliament. Democracy, I was told when I was a young man, meant majority rule with respect for minority rights. Israel more or less qualifies. […]

The following is a translation into English of an article by Nadia Matar- The major part of the article was printed as an op-ed on June 10, 2003 in Yediot Acharonot, the Hebrew newspaper with the largest circulation in Israel. The reality in our little country reminds me of a movie that was produced in […]