Years of Hope

Years of hope, Z.B. Begin, Ha'Aretz, September 6, 2002 A reminder September 9, 1993 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Prime Minister, The signing of the Declaration of Principles marks a new era in the history of the...

A Train in Poland Where the Passengers Would Not Get Off

My grandfather, of blessed memory, was an underground fighter, a partisan, in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. One of the main objectives of the partisans was the destruction of eastbound train tracks in...

Locate Torah Scroll From Bergen Belsen That Fell to Earth with the Columbia Shuttle...

One of the items that Col. Ilan Ramon was carrying with him in a protective casing was a small Torah scroll (Five Books of Moses) that had survived the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, as...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Appeal to the Marchers Against a War With Iraq

Yes, there are consequences of war. If we remove Saddam by force, people will die and some will be innocent. And we must live with the consequences of our actions, even the unintended ones. But there...

Cooperation Between the US and Israel: How to Treat the Phenomenon of Suicide Bombers

The Americans have recently requested and received Israeli assistance in dealing with suicide bombers. The efficient system of cooperation between the two countries, which was established here before the war on Iraq, made things easier....

Preparing for the Next Murdered Jew

- The saying is that a smart man learns from his own experience, while the wise man learns from the experience of others. What can be said about a person who has not learned...

Letter of Complaint Filed Against the Americans for Peace Now

June 5, 2003 Commissioner Mark W. Everson Internal Revenue Service Washington, DC 20224 202-622-4115 RE: Request for injunction and investigation against Americans for Peace Now for illegally utilizing U.S. charitable contributions for matters of Israeli politics, violation of Internal...

Why does the Israeli consulate in San Francisco promote Yossi Beilin?

Dr. Yossi Beilin currently holds no public office in Israel. He holds no seat in the Israeli Knesset. Indeed, Beilin handily lost his bid for re-election in the Labor Party primaries last year, and...

Review of: “Assassination in Khartoum” by David A, Korn

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 262 pp. $24.95 In the minutes before 7 p.m. on March 1, 1973, a routine diplomatic reception was breaking up at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan....

Slurring Israel: A Critique of the Annual US Human Rights Report on Israel

Ever since the days when the Carter administration required that the U.S. oversee human rights policies and practices that remain an integral part of the policies of all nations abroad, the U.S. State Department...