Monthly Archives: September 2001

The JTA Slant That Needs Balance: Reflecting on the Writings of JTA Bureau Chief,...

On Erev Yom Kippur, perhaps the time has come for the JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that is funded in part by the Jewish Federations, to reconsider its ideological orientation and to allow for...

A Test of Credibility

The "Rabbis for Human Rights" continue their cooperation with Palestinians on another level. As Rabbis, so director Rabbi Arik Ascherman, they work for a greater force than the State of Israel. The existence of...

Israel Foreign Minister Shimon Peres: Oslo Process Cannot be Erased

The Oslo Process was a moral and a Jewish choice. The late Yitzhak Rabin and I went to Oslo for moral reasons: not because we had no choice, not out of weakness, but with...

A Moral Victory in Durban

THE FORUM of non-governmental organizations or NGOs at the World Conference Against Racism can be considered a turning point in the history of the global human rights movement - not because of the victory...

Seize The Moment

Israel now has a rare opportunity to turn world public opinion around in its direction and to take diplomatic and military action that it has refrained from taking until now for fear of international...

The Israeli Gov’t Filmed the Demos of Joy and Expressed its Disappointment with the...

"Press under terror" was how deputy director general for PR in the Foreign Ministry Gidon Meir described the behavior of news agencies who refused to broadcast the Palestinian celebrations in the streets over the...

French Ambassador to Israel Distinguishes Between Terror in NYC and Terror in Israel

Israeli figures have leveled severe criticism about the statement made by the French ambassador in Israel, Jacques Huntzinger, who said "the terror attack in the US should not be mixed up with the terrorist...

Terror Expert Prof Ariel Marari

Prof. Ariel Marari, a leading world expert on terror and political violence, who has held a series of key positions relating to world terror, tried to confront the question of questions this week: how...

Witness to Terror: Watching the World Trade Center Implode and Listening to Security Sources...

The terror at the Twin Towers caught me in Lower Manhattan, where I was giving briefings on how the PLO, the seemingly legitmated peace partner with Israel, had incorporated the Hamas and Islamic Jihad...

Doomsday?

"A day that will live in infamy." That was how President Franklin Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor 60 years ago. And that, and more, is how yesterday's cataclysmic disaster will be remembered...