Israeli Editor on the Roots of Palestinian Violence On May 9, 2001, the bodies of two 14-year old Israelis from the settlement of Tekoa were discovered brutally beaten, their heads smashed by rocks. The following day, Sever Plotzker – Editor at large of Economic Affairs, and columnist for the largest circulating Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot […]

The most damming thing we can say about the carefully worded, even-handed-to-the-nth degree, mealy-mouthed Mitchell Commission Report is that it lacks even a glimmer of original thinking; it fails to ask even the most rudimentary questions: What is happening in the Middle East? Whose national security interests are at risk?  What steps should the U.S. […]

WASHINGTON – The "Commission on Human Rights" is the group of 52 nations that decided in Geneva last week that China – while torturing and killing members of the Falun Gong, raping Tibet’s culture and imprisoning foreign nationals – was not to be censured in any way. At the same time, the U.N. group, turning […]

THE ARABS DO NOT FINANCE THE PLO. Saudi Arabia and other Arab oil producers bankrolled the Islamic Intifada against the Soviets in Afghanistan (some $1BN in 1985-6), but would not finance the Palestinian Intifada of 1987-92 and the current PLO war on Israel. The October 2000 Arab Summit committed itself to a $1BN aid to […]

One of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood definitions in the dictionary of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the term "occupied territories." The vast majority of people simply do not know the facts or misinterpret them, thus completely distorting the real picture of the land distribution between the Arabs and the Jews. The truth of the […]

Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI joins the civilized world in condemning the bestial terrorist attack Tuesday, May 8, against Ya’akov Mandel and Yosef Ishran, two fourteen-year-olds from Tekoa, a community just southeast of Bethlehem. The boys had been hiking near the Haritoun Cave, only a short distance from their homes, when they were viciously attacked, […]

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has released a new study making the case for a halt to America’s $2.1-billion in aid to Egypt. The report, “Ten Good Reasons to Stop U.S. Aid to Egypt,” is available by calling the ZOA at 212-481-1500. Highlights of the report: * Egypt incites hatred against […]

INTRODUCTION  by Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato  The friendship between the United States and Israel has been anchored in shared values, common strategic interests, and respect for each other’s independence. Israelis have always insisted on fighting their own battles, a position that the U.S., with its own battles to fight elsewhere around (he globe has deeply […]

To the delight of their enemies, the United States and Israel are making separate, dangerous mistakes about each other. For its part, the new administration, or at least the Colin Powell branch of the State Department, apparently believes that nasty words challenging Israel’s right to defend itself against armed attacks will send the Sharon government […]

Will Shimon Peres outlive Israel? If his appeasement policy towards the Palestinians manages to convert Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, no savvy bookmaker would lay more than 6-5 on the Jewish state. Peres has survived failure better than any Hollywood mogul in history. He lost five elections, he was the father of the disastrous Oslo peace […]