Charles De’Giaialle, lamenting the fractiousness of the French, famously wondered, “How can you govem a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” De Gaulle should have tried dealing with the Israelis. Israel, with more than a dozen feuding parties, is a country in which some people seem to care most about making sure there is […]

A key United Nations agentcy has lent its support to a Palestinian Authority tourism map that completely obliterates Israel, CNSNEWs.com reports. A new PA Ministry of Tourism map credits the United Nations Development Program with helping in its publication. The map, called “Palestine, The Holy Land,” shows the entire expanse of present day Israel, Including […]

Dr. Mina Tzemach of the Dahaf Institute conducted a special public opinion poll on the political positions of the Israeli public regarding the Palestinians and the Al-Aqsa Intifada. The poll showed an acute shift in the way the Israeli public in general, and the Israeli left in particular, view the Palestinians and the Israeli-Palestinian peace […]

There are hopeful signs regarding the Bush administration’s policy toward Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. Unlike his predecessor, President Bush refrained from interfering in the Israeli election and has said that he will not impose deadlines on the Arab-Israeli negotiating process. He has called upon Yasir Arafat to publicly condemn anti-Jewish terrorism, in Arabic, to […]

The Bush Administration has given voice to several serious problems of American national security interest that the previous administration left unmentioned. Sham negotiations with North Korea over its missile program. Russian arms proliferation and sales of nuclear technology to Iran. Renewed and expanded fighting in the Balkans. Chinese missile proliferation in range not only of […]

About three months ago the Interdisciplinary Academic Center in Herzliya held a conference on “The Balance of National Strength and Security in Israel.” The conference’s organizers and 300 participants were the leading figures of Israel’s political, defense, and academic establishments. Last week, the conference’s organizers published a document titled, “The Balance of National Strength and […]

Granting that death is never to be taken lightly, we are more than concerned about the “body count” that inevitably appears in newspapers describing the Palestinian war against Israel. The “count” shows many more Palestinians than Israelis killed; hence the assumption that Israel is the aggressor. But just as the “body count” was an unhelpful […]

This policy prompted Israel to take a series of steps which struck some observers as bold and others as fool-hardy: to the Palestinians it offered a state, complete with Jerusalem as its capital and sovereignty over the Temple Mount. To the Syrians, it offered full control over the Golan Heights. To Lebanon, it not only […]

WASHINGTON – President Bush recalled the helicopter tour of the West Bank given him by Ariel Sharon three years ago. The Israeli prime minister, who knows every ridge and wadi of Judea and Samaria, smiled ruefully and said that such a low-flying tour was not possible these days because the chopper would be vulnerable to […]

Last November, Mary Robinson, the UN High Cominner for Human Rights, visited Israel (a visit which 11 authorized” by a UN Human Rights Commission lotion that Israel called “unbalanced and offensive”) issued a one-sided report which the Israeli Governt appropriately labeled “fundamentally flawed.’ Rely, Jerusalem issued a response to Robinson’s “report” h was sent to […]