Editor`s Note: In July 1998, Daniel Gordis moved with his wife, Elisheva, and their three children to Jerusalem for a one-year fellowship at the Mandel Foundation. A few months after the Gordises arrived in Israel, they decided to stay permanently.) In New York last month I had occasion to be interviewed on National Public Radio. […]

A newly released best-selling novel for teens, Rever la Palestine (Dream of Palestine), sympathetically portrays a young Palestinian who becomes a suicide bomber. The fifteen-year-old Egyptian author, Randa Ghazi, who lives with her family in Italy, writes about Palestinian teenagers who fight ‘bloodthirsty Jews, who assassinate children and old people, profane mosques, and rape Arab […]

In 1978, Israel tracked both crucial strategic assets and vital principles for what (predictably) turned out to be worthless pieces of paper. Yet unlike the 1993 Oslo agreements, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty is still almost universally deemed a success. This became obvious when conservative critics, indignant at the Nobel Peace Prize award to Jimmy Carter, […]

Over the past two years, the Palestinian Authority has conducted a campaign to encourage the cold blooded murder of 682 men, women and children throughout the land of Israel. As a result, the IDF has been forced to conduct operations in the areas controlled and protected by the Palestinian Authority, to locate, arrest and neutralize […]

When I was in college, an Armenian American acquaintance told me about his grandfather’s obsession with the Turkish genocide against his people in the early part of the 20th century. To a comment of “nice weather, today,” the old man habitually replied “What does it matter since our people were slaughtered?” I wonder if I […]

Supporters of Palestinian terror violence against Israelis argue passionately that the ends (Palestinian “independence”) justify the means (murderous attacks upon civilians). Leaving aside ordinary ethical standards – everyday standards by which this argument is manifestly indecent – the ends can NEVER justify the means under authoritative international law. Quite the contrary. For more than two […]

This week the Monitor concludes its extended look at the anti-Israel proclivities of “60 Minutes” stalwart Mike Wallace. As we`ve noted in our earlier installments, Wallace has always displayed a palpable ambivalence — some would say that`s too charitable a word — when dealing with Jewish issues, never more so than when he downplayed the […]

A politically conservative organization has established a new Web site to monitor and critique professors and universities on the manner in which Middle East studies are taught on campus. The predominantly left-wing academics do not like it one bit. But the public seems greatly enamored. In its first two weeks last month, the Web site […]

It’s been quite a week in the wonderful world of Islam. Nigerian Islam’s encounter with that powerhouse of subversion, the Miss World contest, has been unedifying, to put it mildly. First some of the contestants had the nerve to object to a Shariah court’s sentence that a Nigerian woman convicted of adultery be stoned to […]

Arafat is determined that, within any peace agreement, Israel must absorb approximately 300,000 Palestinians from Lebanon, and that the independent Palestinian state must be free to absorb more than half a million more Palestinians. Arafat’s long-term goal is to combine these with the 3.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the 3.2 […]