Two years ago the Monitor, inspired by the political humorist P.J. O’Rourke, published an “Enemies List” of anti-Israel journalists. The column struck such a responsive chord, with readers nominating dozens of their own media enemies, that a couple of follow-ups to the original list soon appeared. Given the renewed controversy over media coverage of Israel […]

Last Sunday, one of Israel’s ostensible “peace partners” picked up an M-16 rifle and opened fire on an Israeli passenger bus carrying children home from school. This “martyr” for the Palestinian cause, this “hero” of the Palestinian revolution – as Yasser Arafat’s state-controlled media will no doubt refer to him – succeeded in murdering two […]

Every war seems to have its comic side and in the United States many a campus is hosting a round-the-clock standup shtick these days, in the form of protests by the Bash-America Left. These pro-Taliban protesters are the same characters who tear up cities in the name of "anti-globalization" every few months, with their Nike […]

Dear Mr. Prime Minister: On behalf of the Zionist Organization of America – the oldest, and one of the largest Zionist movements in the United States – we are writing to express for your recent statement urging Western leaders not to repeat the mistake they made on the eve of World War II, when they […]

Osama bin Laden’s a lot closer to the Saudi royal family than you think. 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 […]

When I was growing up, my father would go to bed with a transistor radio set to an all-news station. Even without a radio, my father was attuned to the menace of history. A Jew born in Vienna in 1924, he fled his homeland in 1938; his parents were killed in the Holocaust. I sometimes […]

LONDON — “This isn’t about Islam.” The world’s leaders have been repeating this mantra for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror it can’t afford to suggest that Islam and terrorism are […]

At the very moment that the United States is declaring war on terrorism, Secretary of State Colin Powell is asking Israel to surrender to terrorism. In one 24-hour period in early September, Powell reportedly made nineteen separate phone calls to pressure Israel’s leaders to resume negotiations with Yasir Arafat. To make matters worse, it is […]

For more than half a century the American State Department has stubbornly tried to push through its pro-Arab policies, unable to realize that by doing so it has only been tightening the knot of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Already in 1948 the American Secretary of State threatened to resign, trying to prevent President Truman from recognizing […]