The Refugees’ Choice: Another Look at UNRWA

Critics accuse UNRWA of perpetuating the Palestinian Arab refugee problem and abetting terror. Israeli officials say everyone would be much worse off without it. Has the 50-year-old mission gone right or wrong? The vanished buildings...

Shefa Fund Responds to Criticism

The Shefa Fund is a 15-year-old Jewish public foundation committed to Jewish values, including emphatic support for the State of Israel and the well-being of the Jewish people. Shefa is currently the target of...

Will the Jewish State Demand the Re-Arrest of a Freed Terrorist Who Advocates Terror??

Ahmad El-Sukar was the Arab terrorist responsible for the murder of 14 and maiming 70 in a Zion Square bombing, when he placed a refrigerator bomb there on July 4, 1975. I was there in...

Appreciating the Candor of Nabil Shaath

Israel has no cause to be angry at the Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, who declared yesterday in Lebanon that the road map will bring the refugees from 1948 back from Beirut to Haifa....

GENERAL PELLEGRINI: A NEW NAPOLEON ON ISRAEL’S SHORES?

The statements that were made on Thursday by the French commander of UNIFIL troops, Major General Alain Pellegrini, that he was awaiting orders on the use of UNIFIL troops, including instructions to intercept Israeli...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: November 18, 2007 "Anyone's Guess" Will the conference be held in Annapolis on November 27? Still possible, but looking less likely. Khaled Abu Toameh is reporting in the Post that PA officials are saying they are...

Christians Walking With Fear In The Holiest Of Lands

On a crisp sunny day, Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch Michel Sabah was preparing for the Christmas Eve midnight mass that has been held every year for centuries in the holiest Christian site on earth -...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: December 31, 2007 "Setting Priorities" That is what I've had to do in recent days, my friends. I have refrained from taking the time to post because I have beeen at work on a major...

Israelis Under Fire Receive Boost From Philadelphia

When Hamas fired two Katyusha rockets into the southern Israeli city of Netivot, on May 24, the city officially joined the ranks of Sderot and kibbutzim along the border as a target for Gaza-based...

Religious Leaders Talk Ahead Of Pope’s Visit A Rabbi Greets The Pope In Rome,...

A leading Israeli rabbi is speaking out on the sensitive discussions between the Israeli rabbinate and the Vatican in anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's May visit to the Holy Land and about his own...