Now that the Nobel Prize season is again upon us, we should shamefully recall Yasir Arafat’s Peace Prize eight years ago. Awarded to a terrorist leader, one who has consistently defiled the legally binding obligations accepted by a true “freedom fighter,” the Nobel Peace Prize is now little more than a mockery of dignified international […]

Is there an issue that some Hollywood star — director, producer, actor, actress — has not publicly commented on? It’s hard to name one. Producer, director Rob Reiner has devoted years to imposing onerous taxes on poor people who smoke and to putting perhaps half of California’s cigar and pipe stores out of business. Barbra […]

The Jewish community, here and around the world, equates demographics with survival, so it’s only natural that we obsess over our numbers. But we may be willfully ignoring a plausible solution to our ever-worrisome dwindling Jewish population. Consider: Communal officials today are eagerly anticipating the latest findings of the once-a-decade National Jewish Population Survey, due […]

This past week Israel entered its third year of a war with no name, with nary an ally, and with no objective more glorious than a lull. It’s been a war plagued by indecision and misdirection. The enemy’s leader is harassed but not erased. The country is safe for tourism but the danger is compared […]

As International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General for 17 years (until 1997), Hans Blix played a major role in allowing Iraq and Iran to develop their nuclear programs. He pronounced Iraq’s nuclear reactors “safeguarded,” meaning there was no threat that equipment could be diverted to nuclear bomb making. He thus made it possible for […]

Israel has been placed in extreme jeopardy by its obedience to the demands that she exercise restraint in dealing with terrorists. The siege of Arafat’s compound in Ramallah, called the ‘Mukata’, was not merely lashing out in response to more murderous terror attacks by Arafat’s multiple terror organizations. Nor was it an effort to capture […]

I’m too young to be a political pundit, but the fact is that for more years than I care to remember, the thought of transfer-the forced movement of the Arab population of Israel, Judea and Samaria to Arab countries- has been criticized as irrational, immoral and impossible to implement. However, after the past two years […]

Opponents of President Bush’s policy of effecting regime change in Iraq have increasingly coalesced around the idea that the United States must secure the assent of the United Nations Security Council before doing anything about Saddam Hussein. While some claim this step would legitimate and facilitate redress of the danger posed by Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction — as one […]

Now that it’s been a year since America tasted horrific acts of terrorism on its own soil, it’s important to review that Saudi “peace plan.” I know you’re thinking, “What? The very country that supplied nearly all of the September. 11th terrorist hijackers? The same place that has an appalling record of human rights abuse, […]

President George Bush’s recent speech to the UN on the danger that Iraq poses to the people of the world, and the necessity of taking strong pre-emptive measures to foreclose that danger, is a model of courageous and rational thinking. It is so much easier to wait until after the disaster before reacting. It requires […]