Obama Visits Sderot 1

"I can assure you," Barak Obama said, speaking at the local police station against a backdrop of Kassam rockets, "if someone was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night,...

“My Pentagon Years” A briefing by Douglas J. Feith

Douglas J. Feith was undersecretary of defense for policy in the Bush administration (2001-05), and is a professor of national security policy at Georgetown University. He previously served in several capacities in the Reagan...

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...

SALAFI JIHADISTS IN GAZA: ‘Compared to Us, Hamas Is Islamism Lite’

Global power is their goal, and they are willing to slaughter innocents to get there. A group of ultra-radical Islamists are training in the Gaza Strip, and SPIEGEL ONLINE met with one of their...

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,...

Investigations Overshadow Olmert’s Peace Proclamation

On a normal day in Israel, a statement made by an Israeli prime minister on a state visit to France, indicating peace between Israelis and Arabs was "never closer" would break into every daily...

Will Washington Betray Anti-Regime Iranians?

As the United Nations mandate that legitimizes the presence of U.S forces in Iraq expires on December 31, 2008, a humanitarian and strategic disaster is coming into view. The fate of about 3,500 anti-regime...

The New York Times and the al-Dura Hoax

Students face riot police near Tehran University, during a clash which started when police occupied and closed the main entrance gate of the university, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday July 13, 1999. In a flashback...