Not a PR Ploy

This week, a few survivors of concentration camps who live in the Katif district of Gaza, which is scheduled for removal, decided to wear orange stars of David - reminiscent of the Holocaust-era yellow...

Police Prepare for Forced Evacuation

The Israel Police has begun to equip for the operation to evacuate settlements in the context of the disengagement plan. Police assessments as to the scope of violence expected to be encountered in the course...

Arafat’s Investments

December 22 (Bloomberg) -- In 35 years as Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat raised billions of dollars. He spent the fortune to wield power, to pay militants who attacked Israel and to invest in the...

Is There a Potential Conflict of Interests between Shimon Peres and the Operations and...

At a time when Shimon Peres is once again mentioned as a candidate to return to a senior position in the Israeli government, the time has come for the Ethics Committee of the Knesset...

Beware of the Gaza Trap

Is a Gaza withdrawal a good idea? Well it may be for the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and for some of his close supporters, but it most certainly is not for the U.S. President...

Has the Israeli Government Been Using Holocaust Terminology to Promote Their Policies?

On the Fast Day of the Tenth of Tevet we collectively recall the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans to starve the Jews and to drive them out of the Land of Israel. Thousands of...

Did the Jewish Advocate Not Consider the Source of our Translation?

The Jewish Advocate of Boston issued an inappropriate editorial on December 17th, 2004, in which it accuses me and our news agency of willfully distorting an interview with Sari Nusseibeh, so as to "manipulate"...

Will the Real Abu-Mazen Please Stand Up?

Does the Palestinian Arab press know something that the Israeli press does not know? Even as the Hebrew press headlined the remarks of Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu-Mazen) calling for an end to the "Intifada," the...

What We Can Learn From the Libel of the Jenin Massacre

On Monday night, December 6th, Israel Broadcasting Corporation Channel One screened Martin Himmel's documentary "Jenin: Massacring the Truth" describing how the international media defamed the State of Israel by transmitting the accusation that the...

IDF Suspicious About Egypt’s Intentions

The major element that is supposed to change in connection with the struggle against the tunnels has to do with Egypt's behavior. That is being influenced not only by the warming of relations with...