Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh

Israel has lived the past sixty years more intensively than any other country. Its highs - the resurrection of a two-thousand year old state in 1948, history's most lopsided military victory in 1967, and the...

An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria

Summer 2008, pp. 57-62 On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...

Funerals End One Stage Of Israel, Lebanon War As Next One Begins

The funerals of two murdered Israeli POWs, Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, borne on the shoulders of 12 noncommissioned officers of the Israeli army's Golani Brigade, concluded this stage of the 2006 Lebanon War. The...

Murdered POWs Returned Home

The Israeli public woke up to a new reality yesterday morning when Hezbollah delivered the bodies of two dead Israeli POWs in exchange for one of the most lethal terrorists in an Israeli jail,...

Incisive Commentary on Events in Israel

Posting: July 11, 2008 "Still Iran" Iran remains very much in the news -- and with solid reason. No one -- except the parties both here and the US who are directly involved -- know exactly what's...

Palestinian Tractor-Terrorism: Mainstream Not Renegade

1. Hate-Education-Driven-Terrorism. The July 2, 2008 Palestinian Tractor-Terrorism constituted a precise Palestinian human-missile, guided by Palestinian hate-education, instituted in 1994 by Abu-Mazen, then Arafat's first deputy, and proliferated via Abu Mazen's current educational-religious-media infrastructures....

Kiddush Hashem in the Streets of Jerusalem

Last Wednesday, we experienced an extraordinary Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of G-d's name) when an Arab murderer armed with a huge bulldozer went on a rampage on the streets of Jerusalem. He flattened occupied cars,...

Hugo Chávez’s Jewish Problem

In December 1998, preaching a gospel of socialist revolution that had gone blessedly unvoiced in the decade following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hugo Chávez won a landslide election for the presidency of...

UN: A ‘Humanitarian Move’: Israel’s Decision to Release Terrorists;

The recent Israeli decision to release Hezbollah and Lebanese terrorists in a prisoner exchange was hailed yesterday by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as a "humanitarian move." "The Secretary-General welcomes the progress on the...

The World Should Know What He [KUNTAR] Did to My Family

Abu Abbas, the former head of a Palestinian terrorist group who was captured in Iraq on April 15, is infamous for masterminding the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. But there...