Talk about a bad idea. For Israel to release Palestinian tax revenues while neither the Palestinian Authority nor the other Palestinian terrorists organizations have changed their stripes is counterproductive. The message the PA gets is this: If we just stay corrupt and keep killing Israeli civilians, eventually Israel will fold. There is a very simple, […]

Moledet party head MK Benny Elon is working tirelessly to disseminate the idea of transfer-by-consent of the Arab population out of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. In an interview with the current edition of the weekly B’Sheva newspaper, he said that it’s an idea whose time has come: “I believe that we will win this war, […]

(Washington, D.C.): In a major address yesterday in Houston, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay demonstrated the leadership qualities that have earned him the moniker “The Hammer.” As the excerpted remarks below suggest, Rep. DeLay has as clear a vision as President Bush of the mortal threat posed to this country, to its allies and to […]

CNN is broadcasting a 5 part series of videotapes August 18-22, discovered by Nic Robertson (a CNN reporter) which show Al Qaeda experiments and training in producing and testing deadly gas and nerve agents. The first day’s films show noxious white gas visibly creeping across the floor toward a dog, who salivates, convulses and, finally, […]

(Washington, D.C.): Like a chorus of Hamlets, a number of Republican elders have recently begun wringing their hands in public over President Bush’s evident determination to liberate the people of Iraq and, thereby, end the mortal peril Saddam Hussein poses to them and the rest of us. To be sure, few, if any, of the […]

Safety and security — that´s what´s on the minds of American Jews these days. Jewish newspapers are replete with stories of stepped up security patrols at Jewish institutions and of sky rocketing insurance bills for synagogues, schools and JCCs because of the perceived security threat. Yet, the fear about security in the US pales when […]

The world’s media is suddenly all ecstatic at the fact that Generalissimo Amram Mitzna has decided to toss his kafiya into the race for Labor Party chief. Because Mitzna is to the left of the current party chief, ‘Fuad’ Ben-Eliezer, and indeed is to the left of Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin, the Jewish anti-survivalist […]

This article, written by the late Eric Hoffer 34 years ago, is uncannily contemporary. Some truths never change.  Hoffer was a Non-Jewish American social philosopher.  He was born in 1902 and died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely […]

The latest flare-up in the Middle East is once again drawing attention to the plight of millions of destitute Palestinian living in squalid refugee camps. Arabs claim to be outraged by the Palestinians’ plight, but in reality they have contributed little to the welfare of the Palestinian people. The humanitarian tragedy of the Palestinian refugees […]

Safety and security — that´s what´s on the minds of American Jews these days. Jewish newspapers are replete with stories of stepped up security patrols at Jewish institutions and of sky rocketing insurance bills for synagogues, schools and JCCs because of the perceived security threat. Yet, the fear about security in the US pales when […]