NEW YORK – The terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for the murder of an Israeli cabinet minister is a member-organization of Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and Arafat has never taken any disciplinary action against it. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which is on the official U.S. list of […]

The following was sent to the NY Times “Letter to the Editor” Dear Sir: Let’s see. I want to make certain that I have this correct. It is very confusing. If Israel pinpoints and executes terrorist leaders who have aided in planning attacks on innocent civilians, that is bad. If the United States declares war […]

ARAB NATIONS, including those considered allies of the United States, have been struggling with their response to the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan. If their contortions were not so familiar they would be hard to understand: After all, Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization are sworn enemies of the Egyptian and Saudi governments, […]

Note: Please write call or email President Bush. Let’s face it: Jews in this country have lost their influence. Ironically, the area where Jews dominate, the media, is precisely one of the areas that has proven most inimical to Jewish interests. The New York Times, the TV networks and many other mainstream American publications continue […]

Perhaps the most admirable part of the response to the conflict that began on Sept. 11 has been a general reluctance to call it a religious war. Officials and commentators have rightly stressed that this is not a battle between the Muslim world and the West, that the murderers are not representative of Islam. President […]

About the President of the United States, one question has become critical and pivotal: Is he a man of constancy in his conduct of the war against terrorism? Most Americans, this one included, certainly thought so after his vibrant, passionate denunciations of terrorists in New York City and Washington, demanding their elimination and that of […]

The U.S. response to Arik Sharon’s remarks that President Bush should not “appease the Arabs at our expense” was that Sharon’s statement was “unacceptable” and that the U.S. is Israel’s best friend. Without a doubt, the U.S. is Israel’s best friend. But the situation is not so simplistic. The U.S. is also best friends with […]

By itself, Jack Straw’s failed mission to Iran is of no lasting significance. Derisively dismissed by his interlocutors, he is back home, his self-described “dialogue among civilizations” now just an embarrassing memory. What makes his hapless journey worth comment, however, is the need to think again about the theory of statecraft that led the British […]

(Washington, D.C.): Among the most memorable passages in President Bush’s extraordinary address to the Joint Session of Congress on September 20 was the challenge he posed to others around the world: “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this […]

“This letter from Newt Gingrich to Colin Powell was circulated by blast fax last night by The Project for a New American Century whose Directors include Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan.” Dear Mr. Secretary: I strongly approve of the steps taken last night to freeze the funds of various terrorist groups. This is a powerful […]