The following are the results of a Market Watch poll [Market Watch was formed by a group of former Gallup employees] of a representative sample of 590 adult Israelis carried out the week of April 12th during the IDF operations. Statistical error +/- 4.5 percentage points: Of the following, who do you think is appropriate […]

Friday afternoon, Soheila Hoshi, 47, a mother of four children ages nine to eighteen, completed her weekly shopping at Jerusalem’s colorful outdoor market known as Machane Yehuda. She was a regular at the market, picking up last minute fruits, vegetables and goodies for the family meal. As Soheila waited for the bus, a young Palestinian […]

“I have awakened to anti-Semitism these days,” wrote the American Jewish author Jonathan Rosen in an article in the New York Times Magazine last November. An odd statement for someone as well-versed as he in Jewish matters. What Jew, less than a lifetime after the Holocaust, should have to “awaken” to anti-Semitism? Where had Mr. […]

EVER SINCE the very beginning of the war into which the United States was violently hurled on September 11, efforts have been made to define its nature. The Bush administration, from the President on down, kept telling us that this would be a war unlike any other, but the very nearly self-evident truth of that […]

“Demolishing the homes of Arab civilians…” “Shooting handcuffed prisoners…” “Forcing local Arabs to test areas where mines may have been planted…” These sound like the sort of accusations made by British and other European officials concerning Israel’s recent actions in Jenin. In fact, they are descriptions from official British documents concerning the methods used by […]

There’s a widespread notion that if only Israel would withdraw its forces and population from the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian violence against Israelis would stop and negotiations would start. After all, what more would they have to fight about? In this spirit, the French government insists that the Israeli army “must withdraw.” President Bush […]

NEW YORK – On the same day that President Bush publicly declared that Yasir Arafat “must act” against terrorism, the Bush administration announced that it is sending Arafat another $100-million in U.S. taxpayers’ money, even though he has never acted seriously against terrorism. Following the President’s speech, the administration notified Congress that it is once […]

Israeli actions in cities like Jenin, we keep hearing, are only creating a whole new generation of suicide bombers. But as we learn whether the deaths there number in the hundreds or dozens, other news reports shed light on the radicalization of the Palestinians. To wit: April 7: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In […]

THE hardest thing for an American president to realize is that there is no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem. Eventually, every administration reaches this despairing conclusion. The tragedy for President Bush is that he knew this to be true – and yet allowed himself and his administration to involve itself in a mission that he […]

Hon. John Ashcroft Office of the Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C. Dear Attorney General Ashcroft: As American citizens who have been victims of Palestinian Arab violence, or family members of such victims, we are writing to urge you to issue indictments against two Palestinian Arab murders of an American citizen who are […]