NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Bush administration’s condemnation of the Israeli strike against a terrorist leader in Gaza, pointing out that the Reagan administration ordered the bombing of Libyan president Moammar Qadaffi’s home and offices in 1986, even though it knew that civilian casualties might ensue. Because of Libyan […]

For more than a year, French Jews have been targets of hundreds of violent attacks, initiated mostly by Muslim immigrants. Synagogues have been burned, cemeteries desecrated and Jews beaten on the streets. Yet the French government continues to deny that France has an anti-Semitism problem. This week, the denial syndrome spread to Toronto, where skinheads […]

All those who disagree with American support of Israel – the Arab world and its supporters in the United States such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the left and the State Department (privately, if not publicly) – explain U.S. support of Israel by attributing it to the “pro-Israel lobby” and its supposed power […]

July 25 in the Rose Garden opposite the Knesset there was a somewhat embarrassing event organized by a group calling itself "Soul Searching," a non-partisan group of reserve officers, students and citizens who for months demanded a state judicial commission of inquiry be established to investigate the Oslo agreement. With little media coverage, the leaders […]

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 […]

At the heart of the Palestinian diplomatic struggle against Israel is the repeated assertion that the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip are resisting “occupation.” Speaking recently on CNN’s Larry King Weekend, Hanan Ashrawi hoped that the U.S. war on terrorism would lead to new diplomatic initiatives to address its root “causes.” She […]

It is a tribute to the hypocrisy and duplicity of the UN that Syria assumed the Presidency of the Security Council for the month of June. After passing numerous resolutions condemning terrorism in the strongest possible terms, the Security Council conferred its highest office upon one of the world’s best known state sponsors of terrorism. […]

THIS SPRING, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights held its 58th annual meeting, the month-long event at which it conducts all of its business. For the first time ever, the United States did not participate. The effects were evident. Although fewer than one-third of the UN’s members sit on the human-rights commission at any […]

(Washington, D.C.): The FBI’s depiction of the murderous 4th of July attack at Los Angeles International (LAX) must have struck most Americans as utterly bizarre. After all, it occurred on a day when the entire country was on alert for terrorist attacks; it was conducted by an Egyptian immigrant, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, armed with two […]

Now that a Palestinian state is altogether likely, questions will be raised concerning demilitarization. Could Israel’s security be adequately maintained if the new Arab state were demilitarized? Could the obvious dangers to Israel of another neighboring enemy state be reduced or eliminated with such action? Would the authoritative expectations of international law be able to […]