Asked in a recent Washington Post interview whether the United States had been pressuring Israel at the behest of Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Colin Powell responded, “we are not doing this because we have an obligation to pay off one side or another.” Powell got it half-right. We have no obligation to the Saudis. […]

In the modest history of the war against Israel, this week will go down as the one when even the State Department and the media elites began to concede that betting on Yasser Arafat was a mistake. A few days before the latest premeditated attack designed to kill Jewish civilians, there was a story on […]

Like lemmings, newspapers this week trumpet a “pro-Israel tilt” in the Administration, and Arab enemies of Israel – including Arafat himself – bemoan the same. Admitting a pleasant thrill at the photo of President Bush in front of the Israeli flag, in fact, the US is tilted neither toward Israel, nor away from the Palestinians. […]

NEW YORK – Yasir Arafat has again made it clear that the Palestinian Arabs are not merely demanding control of the Judea-Samaria-Gaza territories, but are opposed to the permanent existence of a Jewish State of any size. In a speech in Ramallah on December 19, 2001 Arafat said: “We all have to protect our Holy […]

This last week the security establishment has been bombarded with an unprecedented number of intelligence warnings. Even the most veteran GSS and IDF officers, those who have seen everything, can’t remember so many concentrated intelligence warnings of all types and from every direction: Suicide bombing attacks, shooting attacks, roadside bombs, car bombs, Hamas and Islamic […]

Arafat fails to detain two bomb makers who are teaching a new generation of `engineers’By Amos Harel Ha’aretz 17 December 2001Two men who appear on Israel’s most-wanted list and whom the Palestinian Authority has yet made no effort to arrest are bomb-making experts from Nablus who are thought to have prepared most of the bombs […]

For those of us born after the Holocaust and living in the West, the rumble of institutional anti-Semitism often resonates as a faint echo from a past that we can barely recognize. We take for granted that Jewish organizations, whose reach is international and whose work extends well beyond local concerns, will be accorded respect […]

I was one of the Americans held hostage by the government of Iran for 444 days beginning in 1979. I was kidnapped at gunpoint from the American Embassy in Tehran, blindfolded, interrogated, beaten and locked in a government prison cell where I was not allowed to speak to anyone. For months I was kept next […]

After decades in power, it would appear that the rule of Mohammed Yasser Arafat may well be coming to an end. The regime of the old terrorist is being consumed by the new terrorists created by Arafat himself in the school classrooms of the new Palestinian Authority. Arafat has worked against Israel since the days […]

Every time there is a new diplomatic initiative in the Middle East, historical memory is the first thing that gets lost. The past becomes not only inconvenient, but an impediment to moving forward. Retired General Anthony Zinni and career diplomat William Burns are now the new boys on the block, and while neither is inexperienced […]