If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a homeland and Muslims want control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right? Well, as an Arab-American journalist who has spent some time in the Middle East dodging more than my share of rocks and mortar shells, I’ve got to tell you that […]

Dear World, It appears that you are hard to please. I understand that you are upset over us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry and outraged? Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the Palestinians; yestarday, it […]

The pizzeria is located on one of the busiest pedestrian intersections in Israel and it was bustling with families when the Palestinian terrorist inconspicuously walked in. Deliberately positioning himself among children and babies, he detonated an explosive pack full of nails and ball bearings, shredding to death himself and 16 Israelis, as well as mutilating […]

No, not those targeted killings. The Palestinians have embarked on a policy of eliminating “traitors and collaborators” within their population – sometimes with the benefit of a kangaroo trial, sometimes without. “T&C” are those who cooperate with Israel in some “unacceptable” manner, generally meaning to provide information to Israel on the whereabouts of terrorists or […]

On the night before a young man begins his service in the Israel Defense Forces, neither he nor his parents sleep too much. The soon-to-be IDF inductee parties with his friends. The parents do not sleep out of worry, fear and apprehension. This month we accompanied our first born son, Noam, to the IDF recruitment […]

We’ll get to the latest Palestinian massacre of Israeli civilians in a moment, but first a lesson in historical context. One of the most memorable stories Ariel Sharon tells is of the visit he made to Washington in 1982 on the eve of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. Then Defense Minister, Mr. Sharon met with the […]

Picture this: You’re driving home from a long day at work. Twenty minutes from home the traffic jams starts. Eventually, reaching the beginning of the line, you are waved into a huge parking lot. After finding a spot to park, you walk to the next line. Finally it’s your turn, and you climb up onto […]

Ever since Israel won Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the 1967 Six-Day War, the United States has insisted on classifying these territories as “occupied”. Ignoring Israel’s Biblical, historical and legal rights to the areas and overlooking the fact that they were taken in an act of self-defense by a country threatened with extinction by its […]

Should Israel´s goal be to defeat the Palestinian Arab terrorists who are waging war against it? Or should the 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 […]

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been in exitence since 1978. Its survival proves the ancient dictorm that, in the Middle East, the temporary is a long lasting phenomenon. In retrospect, it cannot claim any achievements. It has not saved one life or prevented any acts of belligerency from any side in […]