Consider two very different Israeli troop withdrawals from Arab-held territory. The first took place on May 24, 2000, when Israelis left southern Lebanon after an 18-year occupation. The second was on August 14, 2001, after a three-hour incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin. Amazingly, in the two incidents, both sides professed delight with […]

Who really cares about the human rights of Palestinian Arabs? Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and other Muslim nations have warned Israel, in various ways and with different degrees of intensity, over the Jewish state´s alleged mistreatment of Palestinian Arabs. There´s one major problem with these threats. These nations have done far less […]

Thursday, August 9th, the 20th of Av, on my way to work, I found myself walking down Yaffo Street. Hungry, I decided to stop and grab a quick bite… at Sbarro’s Pizza. In the past five years, I have frequented this establishment exactly twice. Walking into Sbarro’s there is a larger area for sitting in […]

How is it possible for the State Department to be so entirely obtuse on the one hand, and so entirely astute on the other? We won’t go over the obtuse parts. However, US policy on UN Security Council resolutions and US policy on the UN Conference on Racism in Durban have both been real winners […]

What if Timothy McVeigh had not been captured but had escaped to Mexico? What if Mexico had a virulently anti-American government dedicated to using any means to reclaim Texas? And what if McVeigh, under Mexican protection, was dispatching gunmen, suicide bombers and assorted terrorists to kill American civilians in U.S. border towns? What would the […]

Background: On the afternoon of June 2, 2001, the international media reported that Yasir Arafat had ordered his forces to immediately halt all violence against Israel. U.S.Secretary of State Colin Powell said on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” on June 3, 2001 that Arafat “has a great deal control” over the violence and, in addition, “he […]

Should Israel’s goal be to defeat the Palestinian Arab terrorists who are waging war against it? Or should Israelis be striving merely for a few days or weeks of quiet? The answer would seem obvious, but at a recent meeting with a senior State Department official, I and other Jewish leaders were surprised and disappointed […]

By threatening to stay home from the UN Human Rights (sic) Conference, the US has attracted the attention of Commissioner Mary Robinson and Secretary General Kofi Annan. Both have called for removing the most blatantly anti-Zionist language from the conference documents because, Mrs. Robinson said, “If there is an attempt to revive the idea of […]

It isn’t easy for an American organization – particularly one committed to a strong and secure United States, as JINSA has been for 26 years and remains today – to say that it is disgusted with our State Department. But we are and say so for the record. On Thursday, a suicide bomber blew himself […]

The Bush Administration is pressing Israel to begin the countdown of “seven days of quiet” in order to restart Israel-Palestinian negotiations – NOT because they think there has been quiet; there hasn’t and they know it. But apparently they want to move on to doing something about Iraq, and the Gulf States tell them they […]