In the ongoing national debate over the appropriate balance between preserving civil liberties and protecting national security, it is generally taken for granted that the government’s invocation of “national security” is made in good faith. Indeed, in the context of combating international terrorism, the need for enhanced protection of national security is without dispute. Yet […]

Summary The historical animosity between Israel and Russia softened after the Cold War, due in part to Russian immigration to Israel and Moscow’s growing problems with Muslims. Since Sept. 11, that détente has transformed further into a tacit alliance. A new oil-transfer agreement now will empower the former adversaries to jointly undermine a common foe: […]

Most Americans recognize that we are at war with people who use open societies as the sea in which to swim. Our neighbor Canada apparently does not; and we have serious questions about our State Department. US immigration law requires the fingerprinting and photographing of people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan and Syria (the State […]

For months now Israeli intelligence officials have suspected that Hezbollah terrorists from Lebanon have been planning to widen the conflict in the Middle East by financing, arming and training Palestinian militants. As Palestinian resistance groups have struggled to survive a ferocious Israeli anti-terror campaign that began early this year with Israel’s invasion and reoccupation of […]

The most fundamental question for this new Post-Oslo era is this: How could Israel have allowed itself to pursue the “peace process“ in the first place? The answers are very likely to raise serious doubts about the nature of secular Zionism itself and its alleged success in resolving the modernity dilemma of the Jews. The […]

Sometime during World War I, the story goes, a Jew lost his way along the Austro-Hungarian frontier. Wandering through the woods at night, he was suddenly stunned by the screaming challenge of a border-guard: “Halt, or I’ll shoot.” The Jew blinked uncomfortably into the beam of the searchlight and replied. “What’s the matter with you? […]

While most observers believe Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon released the siege on PA leader Yasir Arafat’s decimated Mukata Compound in Ramallah because the US gave the command, others say the redeployment was part of a well thought out plan. According to this theory, Mr. Sharon temporarily gave up expelling Mr. Arafat so that Israel […]

Even if you squeeze your hands over your ears, you will still hear it. Breaking glass, burning synagogues and diplomats making filthy anti-Semitic remarks mean that a sickening number of people around the world, many in high office, would have no great objections if the concentration camps arrived again, and would even take pleasure in […]

Dear Mr. President: I feel obliged to write to you regarding the ending of the hostage standoff crisis at the Moscow theater in which 750 hostages were being held by a group of Chechen peace activists. Mister President, I am horrified and shocked. Have you not learned anything at all from my own campaign to […]

Our respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books – all quite recently written and published – is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims […]