Nothing enduring has come of President Clinton’s midnight schemes for a Mideast settlement. And nothing should – for they presume that Yasser Arafat is a partner for peace and that his word on still another agreement can be relied upon. Six times – from Oslo to Cairo, through Wye to Camp David – Arafat has […]

WHO WERE THE 1948 REFUGEES? 1. 630,000 Palestinian, and 820,000 Jewish, refugees were produced by the 1948 war, which was launched by Palestinians, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon against Israel. 2. The Jewish refugees – from Muslim countries – were absorbed (590,000 in Israel), as were millions of European refugees in the aftermath of […]

Arab terrorism has been part of Israel’s history with the Arabs, both before and after Israel’s statehood. Perhaps you remember the fedayeen. Arabs who slipped over the borders from the surronding Arab countries and attacked buses and schools killing many Jews. Over 5,000 acts of terror have occured during the last intifada which stated during […]

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 NSA was notified and the decision was made to send a rare “FLASH” […]

Nothing enduring has come of President Clinton’s midnight schemes for a Mideast settlement. And nothing should for they presume that Yasser Arafat is a partner for peace and that his word on still another agreement can be relied upon. Six times from Oslo to Cairo, through Wye to Camp David Arafat has promised to renounce […]

America’s and Israel’s mistakes in dealing with tyrannical societies in the Middle East have led the entire region to the brink of disaster. To reverse that, the two countries should adopt a coordinated strategy to fatally strike the centers of radicalism in the region. The unthinkable has happened: a "war" in the Middle East. While […]

In 1994, I gave a speech about world affairs and U.S. national security in Louisville, Kentucky. Afterwards, I was asked where I thought Israel would be in ten years. I reflected for a moment and said that I thought Israel might not exist a decade on. My comment met with stunned silence. I let the […]

You know how the classic joke, older than time itself: put two Jews together and you get three opinions…and four reasons why Jews should stay out of Jewish issues. Couple that with the fact that Jews love titles and you’ve got the makings of a bitter brew that Jewry has had to drink from throughout […]

Many American Jews are lamenting the end of the presidency of a man whom they have perceived to be the friendliest to Jewish interests in American history.. The truth or falsehood of that assertion will be judged by historians, but there is no denying that the affection felt by many American Jews for President Clinton […]

This week, as blood-thirsty crowds cheered, the Palestinians executed two individuals accused of working as agents for Israel’s military intelligence network.Although radio listeners knew that the two were going to be executed by a firing squad, the Israeli government and its people, whose security these two persons had apparently risked their lives to protect, did […]