However inane the wanderings in Iraq of chief inspector Hans Blix, there are some things the United Nations is presumed to do well, and high on that list is the worthy cause of helping refugees. All the more appalling, then, to see the gutless, heartless and above all stupid priorities now guiding U.N. policy toward […]

How does the value of an Israeli life become so cheap, that we accept the idea that we have to sacrifice hundreds of lives on a yearly basis in order to exist in the state of Israel? Not many years ago, when one Israeli life was innocently lost, Israelis were shocked and there was a […]

Recent letter-writer Lester LeViness condescendingly informs Journal News readers that they are ignorant, with little or no idea of what the Balfour Declaration is (“Rights” Not Respected, 10/2). He then attempts to prove that Israel has repeatedly violated this declaration with U.S. financial and moral support. His conclusion? The attacks of 9/11 and indeed Muslim […]

So Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal, the Saudi prince whose $10 million donation Mayor Giuliani rejected in the days after September 11, has found a receptacle for his money tainted with blood-soaked anti-Semitism — the bow-tied preppies at Phillips Academy, Andover, founded in 1778. The prince’s $500,000 donation, as our Timothy Starks reports at Page One […]

What does the Arabic word “jihad” mean? One answer came last week, when Saddam Hussein had his Islamic leaders appeal to Muslims worldwide to join his jihad to defeat the “wicked Americans” should they attack Iraq; then he himself threatened the United States with jihad. As this suggests, jihad is “holy war.” Or, more precisely: […]

On the Yahoo map Web site, there is an advisory: “When using any driving directions, or map, it is a good idea to do a reality check and make sure the road still exists .. ” That’s good advice for the Bush administration’s Middle East “road map ” it vainly hopes will bring peace to […]

THE BUSH PLAN:     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 […]

Once again, we’re hearing that awful word again in the context of the Middle East debate. “Settlements.” That’s what the conflict is all about, we’re being told. That’s why the Arabs are mad at the Israelis. That’s the root of the violence, the terrorism, the hatred. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer raised the ugly […]

I am the faculty advisor of Israel Council at Purdue, a student organization dedicated to combating misrepresentations of Israel. On Sunday, November 17, the day of our major conference, THE ETHICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT, an article appeared in our Lafayette, Indiana newspaper about the Hebron massacre of Jewish worshipers two days earlier. The […]