Beit El resident MK Rabbi Benny Elon (National Union) was asked by Arutz-7’s Haggai Segal how he feels traveling almost every day along the route on which Assaf Hershkovitz was murdered today. Elon’s response: “For myself it’s one thing, but what’s harder is to send my 12-year-old daughter every day to school in Ofrah. But […]

Israel’s leaders express understandable concern when Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to recent Israeli counter-terror measures as “excessive and disproportionate.” After all, America’s armed forces have repeatedly used massive force against its enemies (sometimes under the direct command of Powell himself, a former head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff) even when those […]

An Op-Ed piece being offered around town by Americans for Peace Now is fresh evidence that their positions are unworthy of serious consideration. Entitled “Crossed Lines” and authored by APN’s President and CEO, it takes the notion of equivalency to truly absurd heights. Some revealing excerpts are: Over the past several months, Israel and her […]

Former Libyan Premier on the Danger of Nuclear Weapons in Arabs’ Hands In an article published in the Arabic daily “Al-Hayat”, Libya’s former Prime Minister, Abd Al-Hamid Al-Bakkush, warned of the danger of nuclear weapons in Arabs’ hands: “…The Arabs’ efforts to create a balance of power with Israel is a welcome and desirable one. […]

Secretary of State Colin Powell rebuked Israel last week for sending tanks into Gaza following Palestinian mortar attacks on the Israeli town of Sederot. “The Israeli response,” he said, ~’was excessive and dispropor tionate.” Of his own “Powell Doctrine,”which prescribes over whelming force when there is a mil itary objective to be achieved, he made […]

NEW YORK – In yet another violation of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, Egypt is refusing to return its ambassador to Israel until Israel agrees to make more one-sided concessions to Yasir Arafat. The Israel-Egypt peace treaty requires Egypt to maintain normal diplomatic relations with Israel. Yet the Egyptian government withdrew its ambassador from Israel last […]

Ex-NSA op blows whistle in 73 killings of American diplomats in Sudan embassy On Feb. 28, 1973, James J. Welsh, the National Security Agency’s Palestinian analyst, was summoned by a colleague about a communication intercepted from Yasser Arafat involving an imminent Black September operation in Khartoum, Sudan. Within minutes, Welsh recalls, the director of the […]

SECRETARY OF STATE POWELL’s spokesman, Boucher (April 17, 2001): “The hostilities last night in Gaza were precipitated by the provocative Palestinian mortar attacks on Israel. The Israeli response was excessive and disproportionate.” REALLY??? THE POWELL DOCTRINE: Deployment of a disproportionate military power, in order to pound the enemy into submission. “‘The biggest s.o.b. on the […]

At a staff meeting in September 1993, our news agency, whose purpose it is to provide continuing factual coverage for the foreign media, made a policy decision: to find out firsthand how the new Palestinian Arab entity would view Israel, and to determine if their recognition of Israel would indeed be real. We raised funds […]

US-Israel People-to-People relations do not evolve around the Oslo Process, but rather around Shared values, Joint regional interests and Mutual regional threats. Israel has been a democratic, able, willing and efficient ally in the context of conflicts between the US and radical regimes, irrespective of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Mideast radicals have viewed the US as […]