FACTBOX-How rival Palestinian armed factions stack up

Here's how the Palestinian armed rivals stack up militarily: ABBAS'S PRESIDENTIAL GUARD With U.S. backing, Abbas's elite presidential guard has grown to at least 4,000 men, up from 2,500 members when Hamas took power in March. Last...

Letter supports charge Baker skirted sanctions: Businessman contends ex-secretary of state used middleman to...

An Israeli businessman who says he served as a broker in a multimillion-dollar Iraqi collection effort by the law firm of former Secretary of State James Baker has released a document to WND indicating...

Commentary: On the Holocaust, Holocaust denial, Iran, and related issues…

This past week I attended a showing at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs of a documentary made in 1991 by the award-winning Dutch film maker Willy Lindwer on the Wansee Conference, which was...

Will Baker and Gates Leave Bush with a Defeatist Legacy?

As George W. Bush enters his final two years in office, he may be preparing a doctrine of defeatism authored by James Baker and Robert Gates that alienates allies and emboldens enemies. Three critical decisions...

“Politically correct” Holocaust Denial?

This week, the Israeli government issued vehement denunciations of the conference convened by the Iranian government in Teheran to promote the denial of the mass murder of the Jews in World War II, in...

Iran in Gaza

At the weekly Sunday cabinet meeting of the Israeli government, the Israeli intelligence chief, Yuval Diskin, warned that the Hamas terrorist organization is using this period of an agreed upon period of "calm" to...

Commentary: “Test the intentions of Israel’s neighbors.” – An insult to our intelligence

Edward Djerejian, a key advisor to Baker on his study, told the Jerusalem Post today that there is no intention to force Israel into concessions. Rather, the desire is to "test the intentions of...

Baker Hamilton Report Analyzed

Her Iraq Study Group report did more than merely live down to its advance billing. Its authors are now revealed to be as intellectually deficient as they are morally malodorous. Calling these people 'realists'...

Security Guarantees for Israel from the US – Remember the Sinai, 50 Years Ago

The Baker report, mandates that Israel... "Return the Golan to Syria, with US security guarantees to Israel" Exactly fifty years ago, Israel took the Sinai in a defensive war, with firm US security guarantees to...

Commentary: the Baker-Hamilton Report

The Baker-Hamilton Report has been released. We already knew about the approach of appeasement it recommended: Engage Iran and Syria on the issue of Iraq. But there is more. It is not just appeasement,...