Yasser Arafat may have lost some of his personal political clout of late, but the political movement he began – demanding justice for Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homes in 1948 – remains as strong as ever. There’s just one problem. There’s not the slightest historical evidence to suggest Arabs were expelled in significant numbers […]

Who says history can’t repeat itself? The circumstances may be different, but for the second time in 11 years, the presidency of a man named George Bush is being undermined by a senior official named Colin Powell determined to keep Saddam Hussein in power. In 1991, then-Joint Chiefs Chairman Powell — who vociferously had argued against military action in response to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait […]

Why is George W. Bush a president more of word than of deed? Last Wednesday, the president was everywhere. But on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, FDR worked quietly in the White House as America battled Japan on Guadalcanal, U-boats on the Atlantic, and Rommel in Tunisia. In the previous 365 days we had quadrupled […]

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 by […]

An obscene spectacle took place in North London earlier today. A thousand Muslims gathered at the Finsbury Park mosque to “celebrate” the bombing of the World Trade Center. The Metropolitan Police deployed a force 500 strong to protect the meeting, called “A Towering Day in History,” from disruption. A dozen or so menacing-looking men with […]

Avremel Zelmanowitz, of blessed memory, was a Torah-observant Jew who worked in the World Trade Center.  When the terrorist attack on September 11th caused people to flee the building, he lost his own chance to escape by staying behind with his Christian friend and colleague, Ed Beyea, who was confined to a wheelchair due to […]

At the dawn of the new millennium, the world is being confronted with an absolute culture of hate, characterized by paroxysms of international terrorism against civilians, and religious intolerance. This culture of hate has multiple heads from Algeria to Afghanistan, to Indonesia, via Gaza and the West Bank, Damascus, Cairo, Khartoum, Teheran, and Karachi. It […]

Unrealistic wishful thinking from Israel’s Defense Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer,is evident in his statement that Israel must take advantage of the “new wind that is blowing among Palestinians” by withdrawing systematically from Gaza, Hebron, and Judea and Samaria. Former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek’s most recent suggestion is that Jerusalem be divided. AFSI’s chairman Herbert Zweibon dismisses […]

It seems that there’s no country in the world like Israel – a country in the throes of such a cruel war aimed more at its civilian population than at its soldiers, who are attempting to combat murderers while their hands are tied. First of all, there are the moral restrictions that Israel has imposed […]

One of the greatest threats to Israeli democracy is the anti-democratic behavior of its Supreme Court. Non-elected justices who cannot be impeached, and who are great advocates of “judicial activism”, which is essentially illegal judicial legislating by non-elected judges who trump the elected representatives of the people, dominate the Court. The Supreme Court is composed […]