Even as President Bush invests his considerable personal prestige and the power of his office in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, his initiative is threatened by the continued flow of financial and logistical support for Hamas terror attacks through the group’s social-welfare infrastructure. The first phase of the road map requires the Palestinian Authority to begin “sustained, targeted, […]

On May 23, just a week ago, the official newspaper of the supposedly reformed Palestinian Authority carried a front-page picture of the latest suicide bomber dressed in suicide-bomber regalia. It then referred to the place where she did her murdering as “occupied Afula.” The town of Afula is in Israel’s Galilee. It is not occupied. […]

One of the most serious looming crises in the Middle East is the water shortage crisis. Recent articles in the Arab press have underscored the strategic dimension of the crisis and its long-term implications for peace and stability in the Middle East. Thus, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat wrote about “Water: the Hidden Bomb Between […]

To fully understand Palestinian terrorism against Israel’s civilians – an escalating no-holds-barred religious war against noncombatants – we must first understand the underlying concept of sacrifice. This genuinely primitive idea, drawn from an historic Arab interpretation of Islamic duty, animates escalating Palestinian atrocities against Jews. Now, even with an American-backed “Road Map” on the table […]

There was a major debate, years ago, between Mr. Husseini (of the Trojan Horse fame, who died of a heart attack) and Mr. Ze’evi (the assassinated Israeli minister of the “deport them all” fame) about the territories and more specifically about Jerusalem. Mr. Husseini spoke at length about his ancestry going back more than 600 […]

Prof. Talia Einhorn, of the T.M.C. Asser Institute, an institute for international law in The Hague, writes that the Israeli presence in Yesha does not constitute “occupation,” and moreover, that the U.N. Partition Resolution of 1947 that mentions a “new Arab state” is of the “recommendation” type and not the “mandatory” type. In light of […]

In accepting for the first time a timetable for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, the Israeli cabinet may have sealed the fate of modern Israel. If Israel dismantles so-called “settlements” while Yasser Arafat and his crony, Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, add to their long list of broken promises the promise to end terrorism, […]

For the past decade, Israel has been fundamentally anti-democratic in one crucial sense. Every single government except for that of Ehud Barak was headed by people who ran on one political platform and then did the exact opposite. Only Barak did what he stated he would do. Yitzhak Rabin ran on a strict No-Deal-With-the-PLO platform, […]

What Jonathan Pollard and Alfred Dreyfus have in common is that both were falsely accused of treason. Jonathan was never accused, indicted or convicted of treason, but that has not stopped the U.S. Government’s deliberate mischaracterization of Jonathan and the offense he committed. Nor was he indicted for spying AGAINST the United States, only for […]

[Editor’s note: In recent issues of Outpost, we have noted the rising tide of anti-Semitism in France, England, Belgium and Holland. While to its credit Germany still outlaws anti-Semitic propaganda — it recently outlawed an Islamic organization on this ground — William Grim’s article suggests that the virus is nonetheless spreading in the country with […]