Muslims are regulars at the White House Readers of this column were not surprised by the news article that led the front page of Wall Street Journal last Wednesday. They are already aware that a number of Arab- and Muslim-American organizations and representatives that support Hamas and other militant Islamic (or “Islamist”) terrorist groups have […]

The Arrest of the Bethlehem Regional Islamic Jihad Commander The Bethlehem regional Islamic Jihad Commander, Issa Muhammad Ismail Batat, was captured in a joint operation carried out by the Israeli Security Agency (ISA) and the IDF Naval Commandoes. Israeli security forces also arrested his deputy, Nidal Sayyed Husein Halif, and senior Tanzim operative, Ismail Mussa […]

Very shortly, Israelis will wake up to find their military forces pulling out of the northern Gaza Strip and Bethlehem and handing over the war on terror originating in those regions to Palestinian prime minister Abu Mazen and his internal security minister Mohamed Dahlan. The confusion Monday, June 16, over whether or not the Egyptian […]

A vulture was hacking at my feet. It had already torn my boots and stockings to shreds, now it was hacking at the feet themselves. Again and again it struck at them, then circled several times restlessly round me, then returned to continue its work. A gentleman passed by, looked on for a while, then […]

In the mid-1990s, then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres proclaimed a “New Middle East,” in which trade and economics had replaced ethnic and religious wars. Israel, as an economic and technological powerhouse, was poised to be an engine of advancement for the region. He was premature, to say the least. The region was mired in ethnic and […]

Here we go again. Palestinian suicide bombers murder and injure ordinary Israelis going about their daily business. Israel responds by trying to assassinate Dr Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, a leader of Hamas, a terrorist organisation whose raison d’etre is to destroy Israel and murder every Jew in the Middle East. Self-defence in response to attempted genocide, in […]

Jews and Anti-Jews Hatred of Israel is a crutch Arab states have to give up. JERUSALEM–The day after Israel’s failed assassination attempt on Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a “deeply troubled” President Bush let it be known that he did not think such attacks helped Israeli security. He was concerned lest the strike undermine the […]

BACKGROUND: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” “elect new leaders not compromised by terror,” and […]