“Our ‘Friend’ Fatah”

During World War One, Germany concluded that its chief ally, Austria-Hungary, was more of a burden than an asset. As one German official put it, that alliance was like being "shackled to a corpse." And...

The Legacy of Shimon Peres: Durban Renewal

As Israel reels from the British academic boycott against it, the gathering of NGO's under the UN banner in 2001 in Durban, South Africa has not been forgotten. At that precedent-setting conference prominent Israeli, Palestinian...

B’tselem Projects Tendentious and Unsubstantiated Image of Israel

A leading Israeli-initiated but foreign-funded "human rights" organization -- published a report which claimed that 50% of Palestinian detained by the Israeli security officials were tortured. This internationally publicized report relied heavily on "eyewitness...

Iranian Sponsorship of Fatah

As the Palestinian internecine violence in Gaza becomes increasingly severe, alarm in Israel and the US about what is going to happen there grows apace. The prevailing wisdom, promoted for some time now, is...

Do not free Pini Levy’s killer

On November 13, 1990, I was on reserve duty at a small lookout directly above the Adam Bridge, overlooking the Jordan River. We were a group of nine soldiers, most of us relatively older...

Repackaging Ehud Barak: Shades of Nixon?

In the Israel Labor Party primary held on Monday, Ehud Barak led the field of candidates to head the Israel Labor Party, to become Labor's leading candidate for the next Prime Minister- assuming that...

Sderot under attack

We visited Sderot yesterday. Leaving Nitzan we gave a lift to a Gush Katif student learning in the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva combining Torah studies and army service. "How are you holding on?" I asked. "Okay. It's...

How will Israel cope with expected Arab civilian deaths?

Missiles from Gaza are now being fired from populated areas in Gaza. The Sderot Media Center filmed a missile fired from the roof top of an apartment building in Gaza which can be seen in...

Inside the Palestinian Refugee war in the UNRWA camps in Lebanon

In the last several days world attention has been drawn to the Nahr al Bared UNRWA refugee camp in northern Lebanon, where Lebanese Armed Forces have entered and are doing battle in order to...

Remarks by U.S. Security Coordinator LTG Keith Dayton

In response to a question about Israel's security raised by subcommittee ranking member Mike Pence (R-Indiana), Dayton assured the members, "Nothing we do to strengthen the Palestinian's security capability will be targeted against Israel......