NEW YORK- NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the State Department to rescind a speaking invitation to an extremist whose organization has publicly praised the Hezbollah terrorists; who has signed a letter calling for the destruction of Israel; who has strongly suggested that Israel might have carried out the September 11 […]

At the beginning of the 21st century, South Asia and the Middle East pose major challenges to international peace and security. Amid many turbulent political and military developments in the two regions, India and Israel find a growing convergence in their strategic interests. The emerging Delhi-Jerusalem strategic alliance is creating much concern in the Arab […]

Amidst the “doom and gloom” images from Israel these days, which are seen around the world via television or print media, a gala event took place this week in Tel Aviv. The event undoubtedly afforded both native Israelis, and the world at large, the opportunity to see exactly what are the important priorities for the […]

Two questions have been raised about Osama bin Laden. First, if bin Laden opposes the Saudi regime, why has he never struck Saudi targets? Second, if he threatens Saudi Arabia, why has the Saudi government taken the lead in recognizing and funding the Taliban government of Afghanistan, which is entwined with bin Laden’s al Qaeda […]

The left-wing fringe of worshipers at the Oslo shrine have found a new icon. He is Sari Nusseibeh, a Jerusalem born Arab, an Oxford graduate with a doctorate from Harvard. For almost 10 years after 1992 he was absent from the political arena, following a distinguished career in the PLO, and indeed as a leader […]

A recent article by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency featured Izzeldin Abuelaish, the only Palestinian Arab doctor at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel. The article praised him for supposedly promoting peace. The article should also have mentioned that Dr. Abulelaish recently declared, at a New York symposium on terrorism, that “it is a myth that […]

Last June, Palestinian television broadcast a sermon in a Gaza mosque in which the imam, Ibrahim Madi, made the following statement: “God willing, this unjust state Israel will be erased; this unjust state the United States will be erased; this unjust state Britain will be erased.” The sheikh’s gentle homily comes again to mind as […]

(Washington, D.C.): The front page of today’s New York Times confirms that what has been predictable — and predicted — for some time has eventuated: The Islamic Republic of Iran is not, as President Bush put it today, a “positive force” in the war on terrorism. It is, instead, part of the problem, “against us” […]

Last week Israel seized a boat carrying 50 tons of Iranian-made mortars, long-range missiles and antitank rockets destined for the Palestinian Authority. The vessel, Karim A., is owned by the Palestinian Authority, and its captain and several crewmen are members of the Palestinian naval police. I am not surprised to see that Yasser Arafat remains […]