“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...

How the Official Palestinian VOICE OF PALESTINE Radio Covered the August Bombings

On the day of the massive bombing in Jerusalem--August 10, 2001--The Voice of Palestine opened its morning broadcasts at 7 a.m. with a 15-minute spotlight on Ali Joulani, the man who, 2 days earlier...

Liberating Jerusalem Again . . . And Doing it Right

A number of years ago during the early months of the first Intifada, David Krause, who was then police commissioner, briefed the commanders of police units deployed throughout Jerusalem. He ended the briefing with...

Peres and Melchior allow the EU funding to PA education to Resume… WHY??

The donor nations to the Palestinian Authority educational system had egg on their face last summer, when our investigative research showed that the consuls of Italy, Holland, Belgium, Finland and Ireland, had financed new...

TIPH — A textbook case in the failure of “peace observers”

The specified objective of the TIPH (Temporary International Presence in Hebron) observers is "to provide a feeling of security among the Palestinians in the city of Hebron and to contribute to the renewal of...

General Sharon on the Ground

This week Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was reminded of an officer by the name of Amnon Schwartzburg, a member of Kibbutz Beit Alpha, whom he had recommended for a favorable citation after the paratrooper...

Arafat’s New Army

On Tuesday, a few hours after Yuri Gushtzin was murdered and his body dumped near the slaughterhouse in Ramallah, the "el-Aksa Martyrs Brigades," the military arm of Fatah, took responsibility for the murder. The announcement...

President Arafat Received the Letter of Credentials of the new German Ambassador And the...

GAZA - July 28 - WAFA (Official Palestine News Agency) - President Yasser Arafat received in His Headquarters in Gaza this morning, the credential letter of Mr. Andreas Reinieke, the new German representative to...

Israel Internal Security Chief Avi Dichter: ‘Israeli Arab demos prompted Intifada’

Israeli Arab demonstrations after then-opposition leader Ariel Sharon went to the Temple Mount last September prompted the Palestinian Intifada, Shin Bet Chief Avi Dichter told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday. In his...

Iranian airlift sends more arms to Hezbollah – via Damascus Int’l Airport

Iran has transfered hundreds of tons of weapons, ammunition and other materials to the Hezbollah through Syria in recent days, according to reliable sources. The deliveries were airlifted in by giant Antonov 124 transport...