(Washington, D.C.): Six months to the day after President Bush offered not only Saddam Hussein but the United Nations one last chance to disarm Iraq, the verdict is in: So long as the former is in power, he will not voluntarily, fully and permanently surrender his weapons of mass destruction programs or credibly foreswear the […]

Arafat’s millions and Bush’s principles set the stage for a post-Iraq-war collision This past week, the Palestinian Authority’s top accountant told The New York Times that the P.A.’s finances are “a mess.” Think you have trouble sorting out your investments? According to Salam Fayyad, the gun-toting kleptocracy that has raked in billions in foreign aid […]

One of the clearest signs of the growing Nazification of so much of the world’s media is the increasing trend to label Palestinians atrocities, such as the exploding of the bus full of children in Haifa last week, as “Palestinian resistance”. The PLO and its amen choruses routinely explain away such mass murders of Jewish […]

Our wily prime minister is a master of obfuscation, especially when it comes to Israel-Palestinian diplomacy. To judge by the old maxim: “keep the enemy guessing,” he is doing a wonderful job. The problem is that Ariel Sharon’s contradictory policies toward Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority have everybody confused – not just our enemies. […]

On its surface, THE PIANIST is the true tale of a great Jewish musician caught in the unfathomable depths of Nazi occupation. More profoundly, it is a visual microcosm of the titanic human struggle between good and evil. a struggle that is sometimes utterly clear but sometimes also very “gray.” The Nazis in Poland were […]

Critics of America’s plan to liberate Iraq are right about one thing: We don’t know exactly how this policy will look in practice. But there are a few things we do know. In particular, we know what happens when we depend on the so-called peaceful alternatives of restraining Saddam with “disarmament” and “containment.” We know […]

My day in New York City began in much the same way as it would end several hours later. Around 11 a.m. Saturday, I arrived at the First Avenue site of the massive “anti-war” rally organized by the organization United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ). As I headed toward a suitable vantage point from which […]

This past week, the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, halted construction of new apartments in the Tel Rumeida-Admot Yishai neighborhood. What is the background of this building? Almost five years ago, Rabbi Shlomo Ra’anan, the 63 year-old grandson of Eretz Israel‘s first Chief Rabbi, Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook, was […]

As an essential defensive war with Iraq approaches, the United States and its allies should anticipate Saddam Hussein’s renewed placement of civilians directly in harm’s way. This insidious placement, as President Bush warned on February 10th, would express what is popularly known as “human shields.” Apart from its obvious indecency, such practice is always a […]

Who owns the “Palestinian” brand? The answer may resolve the crisis more efficiently than war and better than a forced American peace treaty. Before 1948, Palestine was a singular idea. It represented the hopes and dreams of the Jewish people for their own state. Palestine was the word used by secular Jews like Theodore Herzl […]