The Palestinians periodically announce that they are seeking “quiet” in the region, but the true meaning of such a ceasefire is that they need a time-out in order to acquire more smuggling ships and more offensive weapons. This quiet time-out is merely a deceitful tactic to allow the Palestinians time to re-arm and kill us […]

NEW YORK- A senior official of Yasir Arafat’s Palestine National Council has admitted that despite Arafat’s promises, the PLO National Covenant has never been changed. The 1993 Oslo accords required Arafat to remove from the Covenant all clauses calling for violence or the destruction of Israel. Thirty of the 33 clauses would have to be […]

The root cause of terrorism is not poverty but autocracy and tyranny. A new study ranks most Muslim nations low in terms of liberty. Although Islam is not inherently incompatible with freedom, new movements of radical Islam and obsessive hatred toward Israel very likely have kept democracy at bay. This lack of freedom nurtures rage […]

Israel’s General Security Service released a report last week recommending that the restrictions banning Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and praying there be lifted. With this recommendation, the General Security Service comes down on the side of justice. Israel’s Declaration of Independence guarantees all people the right to worship as they see fit, and […]

In the wake of President Bush’s stern warning to state sponsors of terror, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel felt the time was ripe to open direct truce talks with a troika of Palestinian leaders other than Yasir Arafat. After Palestinian sources leaked word of their first meeting in Jerusalem last Wednesday night, Sharon felt […]

Can words be used as a weapon? The Palestinian Authority seems to think so. In mantra-like fashion, their leaders and spokespersons continue to attribute the incessant violence in the area to the “occupation” of the West Bank and Gaza. Just give us back our land, they say, and peace will surely be attained. Terrorists kill. […]

Jan. 22: A Palestinian opens fire with an M-16 assault rifle against Israelis waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem, killing two and wounding 40. Jan. 25: A Palestinian suicide-bomber explodes himself in a café near the old bus station in Tel Aviv, wounding 25. Jan. 27: A Palestinian suicide-bomber kills one and wounds more […]

Yasser Arafat’s political life was extended for some time owing to the question, “If not Arafat, with whom will we negotiate?” Or a common variation, “After Arafat, who will lead the Palestinians?” The answer to the first is, “Negotiate what?” The Palestinian Authority is making war on the State of Israel, and it is no […]

I thought I was mentally prepared for the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel garbage that would be thrown at us – after all, I had studied the draft documents and was fully aware of the proposal to diminish the Holocaust by removing the capital “H” and merging it together with the other ills of the world so […]

UPGRADING AND SECURITY TECHNOLOGY The Indian armed forces find Israeli expertise valuable for meeting the challenge of upgrading its Soviet military equipment,. Israel was a major contender for the upgrading of 125 MiG-21 BIS aircraft. Though it lost the $400 million deal to the Russian firm, Mikoyan Design Bureau of Russia – the manufacturers of […]