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Deal with the Refugees Now

Why is it that all of the world's refugees, wherever they are located are dealt with by a single UN Agency - the UN High Commission on Refugees (the "UNHCR") - and the Palestinian...

Taking Exception: Stop Blaming Europe

It came as more than a shock to open The Post over breakfast on a brief visit to the American capital last week, and to read in the column of a respected conservative journalist...

Dr. Newman’s Settlement Myths

Dr. David Newman, writing in the New York Times on May 21, "How the Settlements Grew", gives credence to the myths concerning Israel's Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Dr. Newman mistakenly states that...

How the Settler Suburbs Grew

Beer Sheva, Israel - There is nothing that causes as much heated debate in Israel as the future of the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. It is now clear to most Israelis...

One Settler’s Response to David Newman’s Much Abridged History of Jewish Settlements

This is one "settler's" impromptu responses to David Newman's piece on "How the Settler Suburbs Grew" (New York Times, 21 May 2002). I am a resident of Alon Shevut in Gush Etzion, a "settlement," really...

Speech of Arafat in front of the Palestinian National Council: May 15, 2002

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. We will, without doubt, help our messengers and those who believe, both in this world's life and on the Day when the witnesses will stand...

Is Europe Lost? A Traumatic Experience at the Council of Europe

"When the Jews warned the West," I told participants at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, "that the Nazis endangered the peace of the world, your fathers replied that the Nazis were indeed not...

The Powell Visit: Israeli Press Reportage of a Disaster

-- To the question of what repercussions the failure of Secretary of State Colin Powell's mediation mission will have, the Palestinians respond with a single word: a "catastrophe" Officials close to Sharon said: "True, it...

Why was the Arab Suicide Attack in Efrat Different from Other Terror Attacks?

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, March 31, 2002, which this year was both the fourth day of Passover and on Easter Sunday, an explosion rocked Efrat, my wife, typing away yet another e-mail...

The Ecological Disaster Posed by the Palestinian Authority

The state of the environment in the Palestinian Authority is perhaps the last subject that interests the Israeli public today, but there are a few things that are worth knowing about our neighbors'...