Once again the United Nations prepares to equate Zionism, the movement for a Jewish homeland, with racism. On Aug. 31, the U.N. is holding a conference on racism in Durban, South Africa, in which there will be calls for labeling Israel as a nation involved in ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. We’ve been down […]

Jewish delegates were forbidden to attend a U.N. meeting. JERUSALEM — When the United Nations was established in 1945, it had 51 member states; today it has 189. This dramatic membership increase is the result of a process of decolonization that began in the 1950s and led to the emergence of new nations. This development […]

George W. Bush, who during the election campaign went out of his way to insist that he would not repeat Bill Clinton’s mistakes in the Middle East, appears to be well on his way to repeating them. After chiding Clinton for becoming too involved in the details of Mideast diplomacy, Bush has bowed to the […]

More often than not, when you hear a news report of an Arab terror attack in Israel, the news reporter will say that this attack was the result of Islamic extremists, whether they are from the Hamas or the Islamic Jihad. The announcer usually declares – deadpan – that Arafat’s agencies, the PLO (Palestine Liberation […]

Last Thursday, East Jerusalem Arabs went on strike for the day. Streets were empty, shops shuttered, schools and public institutions were closed. Arab taxis and buses disappeared from the streets. With all the violence in the territories, few noticed the strike. Even the Palestinian news media gave it only cursory attention. The strike was organized […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized the European Community for interfering in Israel’s internal affairs by providing millions of dollars in aid to leftwing extremist organizations in Israel. According to documents obtained by the ZOA, the European Community’s recent grants include: * Peace Now – 1 million European pounds (‘E’) […]

At the British Parliament, on June 28, 2001, Lord George Weidenfeld addressed the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on Syria and its government education system on the basis of a recent study of Syria’s government textbooks by MEMRI (Dr. Meyrav Wurmser, “The Schools of Ba’athism” – 2000). Following is the text of his […]

In 1981, Shimon Peres failed in his attempts to coax Prime Minister Begin into restraint in face of the Iraqi nuclear threat, to refrain from a drastic military offensive and to be preoccupied with the diplomatic option. Peres contended – backed by the heads of the Mossad and Israel’s military intelligence – that success was […]

WORLD RECORD: Arafat command more “domestic security organizations” (12) and “security personnel” (60,000) per capita (2.5MN) than either Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan or N. Korea! 2.5MN Palestinians oppressed by Arafat and his 60,000 “Tunisians”, imported from terrorist bases in Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Sudan, Jordan and Lebanon. “Palestinians see a society that is […]

In doing so, they must strip their policies of the comforting illusions of the past decade and soberly construct a new strategy to deal with that confrontation if they are to turn crisis into opportunity. When Illusions Die A previous collapse of a policy that had affected an entire continent for a decade took place […]