Thank you for asking me here to the Heritage Foundation. I’m pleased to be able to speak to you today about the Bush Administration’s efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The spread of weapons of mass destruction to state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist groups is, in my estimation, the gravest […]

Arab spokesmen regularly complain about what they call “the Israeli occupation” of the Judea-Samaria-Gaza territories. But the truth is that there is no such “Israeli occupation.” To begin with, nearly all Palestinian Arabs currently live under Yasir Arafat’s rule, not Israel’s. Following the signing of the Oslo accords, the Israelis withdrew from nearly half of […]

‘Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer’ is an old proverb usefully employed in the business world, and applied more cynically in diplomatic circles. It was clearly on display last month as George W. Bush extended a welcome to Saudi Arabia’s Prince Abdullah at the President’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. On paper there […]

Like many Americans, I have been horrified by the ongoing standoff between Israelis and Palestinians at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. But unlike other Americans, I feel a personal connection to the events that are being broadcast on the nightly news, because I am a Christian who was the victim of Palestinian terrorism near Bethlehem. […]

Following the latest atrocity in Jerusalem, the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, pleaded with the Palestinians to issue some form of denunciation. Arafat complained that only the Palestinian side is ever required to denounce terror. Predictably, the Palestinian denunciation later mumbles that they, “deplore the murder of civilians on both sides.” Perhaps the Palestinians have […]

May 2, 2002 should be written in the book of the Israeli-Arab conflict with golden letters. After nearly half a century of futile attempts by the world community to realize the delusional idea of creating a second state for the Palestinian Arabs on a meager 2,268 sq. miles of territory, a prominent American political leader […]

Israel Minister of Defense and Labor Party leader Binyamin Ben Eliezer once declared that the Arab refugee camps in Judea, Samaria and Gaza represent a haven for killers and a threat to the security of all Israeli citizens. Not a day goes by that we do not hear about these refugee camps: * suicide bombers […]

JERUSALEM — The United Nations commission that would have investigated the nonexistent Israeli ”massacre” in the West Bank town of Jenin could have been a means for some desperately needed truth-telling about the Middle East conflict. [United Nations Secretary-General Annan yesterday abandoned the U.N. fact-finding team.] Given its intended mandate to focus on Israel’s self-defense […]

NEW YORK – The statement by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemning what he called “the Israeli occupation” is wrong, the Zionist Organization of America points out. In fact, there is no “Israeli occupation.” The term “occupation” was used by Kofi Annan, and is used by others, to indicate that Israel has no right to […]

There is a postmodern amorality afloat — the dividend of years of an American educational system in which historical ignorance, cultural relativism, and well-intentioned theory, in place of cold facts, has reigned. We see the sad results everywhere in the current discussions of the Middle East and our own war on terror. Palestinians appeal to […]