Military Implications of the Seizure of the PLO Gun Ship

Alongside the diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been involved -- since the beginning of the second intifada -- in the indigenous production of weapons and ammunition...

How the Israeli Media Covered the Capture of a PA Ammo ship

In a pre-dawn raid on Thursday morning, January 3, 2002, IDF naval commando troops seized control of the Karine-A vessel without a fight and forced it to sail 500 kilometers north to Eilat. The...

New Psychological Profile of Yassir Arafat

Yasser Arafat has many faces. He is prone to sudden outbursts of anger, he weeps uncontrollably, sometimes makes violent threats, sometimes gets carried away giving compliments, sometimes goes deep into his shell. When he...

The PLO: Aiming to Bring 300,000 Arab Refugees to the Galil

Arafat intends to plant in any agreement with Israel a fuse that will eventually blow it to pieces Settling the Galilee The way Arafat envisions it, the right of return will be realized by the approximately...

Terrorism: How the US Ignored the Money Trail

Despite sanctions, terrorists like Osama bin Laden are able to use the international banking system to finance vast and expensive networks. In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last week, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin explained...

A Test of Credibility

The "Rabbis for Human Rights" continue their cooperation with Palestinians on another level. As Rabbis, so director Rabbi Arik Ascherman, they work for a greater force than the State of Israel. The existence of...

The JTA Slant That Needs Balance: Reflecting on the Writings of JTA Bureau Chief,...

On Erev Yom Kippur, perhaps the time has come for the JTA, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that is funded in part by the Jewish Federations, to reconsider its ideological orientation and to allow for...

Use of Children During the Intifada

In May this year, a few weeks before the terror attack at the Dolphinarium, Assi Sharabi, a student of social psychology at the London School of Economics arrived in Israel with a great idea...

Perpetual Middle East Myths: A Critique of a Fox TV Interview

Although the Fox News Channel is often accused of being conservative, the most penetrating reporting and analysis I find on the evening news is the "Special Report" by Fox's Brit Hume. During an August...

“Sending Our Son Off to War”

This week we accompanied our first born son, Noam, to the IDF army recruitment center in Jerusalem, where he was inducted into an IDF combat unit, with three months of basic training lying ahead...