Monthly Archives: February 2007

It was a race against the clock after Israeli intelligence learned that the terrorist strapped with bombs to his chest was already on his way to detonation in a crowd of people at a pedestrian mall.

February 14, 2007 2172 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. Chaired By: Representative Gary L. Ackerman (D-NY) Witnesses: David Makovsky, Director, Project on the Middle East Peace Process, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Martin S. Indyk, Director, Saban...

--All indications are that Israel will continue to hold talks about a future Palestinian state with PA Chairman Abbas even if the new Palestinian national unity government with Hamas does not recognize Israel and does not combat terrorism--Egypt Becomes Leading Source Of Fatah Weapons

February 20th, 2007 To: Open letter to UJC, New York, New York From: David Bedein, Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency Correspondent, The Philadelphia Bulletin Our piece clearly states that the UJC allocated funds for the calender...

The working class city of Sderot (est. pop. 20,000), in southern Israel, is possibly the first city since Sarejevo to live under constant bombardment of its civilian population for a sustained period of time. One by product of this situation is that the small mental health trauma unit in Sderot was simply no longer able to meet the needs of the situation, with more than 3,000 people in Sderot in treatment for the after effects of shock, anxiety and stress.

"I am not like the others, who lie and say that we have no arms while we accumulate and distribute them," the leader of Hezbollah said. "We can reveal that we have arms, and of all kinds. We move them covertly, and Israel does not know about it."

It was a nonsensical bit of political theater in my opinion, and not much more: The "summit" today at which Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, and PA President Mahmud Abbas...

Egypt has become a leading source of weapons for the Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Egyptian security sources said the regime of President Hosni Mubarak has offered to send thousands of...

For years, especially since the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, Arab leaders have repeated the mantra that peace with Israel hinges upon a withdrawal to the pre-1967 border. Similar rhetoric followed with the Arab Summit's...

Most people who follow the Israeli news of the missiles that fall in southern Israel would know the toll that it has taken upon the people there. What you often hear on the news...