For Uzi Landau, the Handwriting was on the Wall

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/754136.html A day before the current government was sworn in, on April 17, former Knesset member Uzi Landau found out he has prostate cancer. This grave news came on top of the Likud defeat in...

Hizbullah’s Apology?

Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has surprised almost every pundit in Israel by admitting that "he made a mistake by not estimating Israel's forceful response to the kidnapping of two soldiers on the northern border". Danny...

Text: UN Sec’y Gen. Annan declines to condemn Iran’s calls to destroy Israel during...

Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was asked how he can visit with the President of Iran given that he has called openly and repeatedly for the destruction of Israel....

Will Olmert Team Ignore the Quartet Double Cross – with US support?

"The Quartet welcomed the efforts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to form a government of national unity, in the hope that the platform of such a government would reflect Quartet principles and allow for...

Commentary: Can Religion Succeed Where Politics Has Failed? An Israeli Addresses a Global Peace...

Position Paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs a. Ultimately, religion defines identity among Jews and Arabs in the Middle East, and is the basic element upon which the Jewish attachment to the Land...

Tenacity of Terror: The Saudi Takeover of the Palestinian Authority

The "Mecca agreement" makes things difficult for Israel. Israel's battle to prevent world recognition of Hamas, an Islamic terror organization sworn to destroy the Jewish state, has ended in defeat, with the ratification of...

Fatah Spokesman: In Mecca, We Chose Hamas, Not Israel

The question that has been bandied about over the past 13 months, since the Hamas victory in the elections over the Fatah, led by Arafat's protégé Mahmoud Abbas, has been whether Fatah would choose...

Commentary: The Saudi Plan and more

I would like to return to the entire issue of the Saudi peace plan and whatever negotiations Israel may or may not have with the Palestinians or with Abbas in particular. Let me begin by...

Abusing the Holocaust

Kenneth Roth, the head of Human Rights Watch, opened a recent response to critics of his statements on Israel (including the author of this column) by referring to his father's "escape" from Nazi Germany....

Washington Institute Report: U.S. Funding Hamas Groups

A report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy documents that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided funds to institutions controlled by Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...