Harvard University needs a better sense of humor. Only an institution suffering from an excess of self-importance could fail to see the joke in inviting a former president of the world’s largest state sponsor of Islamist terrorism to give a…
read moreFollowing the failure of efforts to reach agreement between Hamas and Fatah on the formation of a government of national unity, there are growing fears among Palestinians that the two movements are now on the brink of an all-out civil…
read moreAvraham Sela, a political science professor who served in the Israeli Military Intelligence for 16 years, said the way to stabilize the region is to turn Hezbollah into a political party and keep it from becoming an autonomous military power…
read moreProfessor: Russia scared to death of nuclear Iran, By Yaakov Lappin; Ynet News 10.24.06B Expert on Soviet Union, modern Russia at Hebrew University says former Russian PM vowed Iran would never go nuclear Russia is “scared to death of a…
read moreWhatever the circumstances and regardless of the Palestinians’ internal struggle, Israel must recognize that continued occupation is not only non-sustainable but insidiously eroding rather than enhancing its own national security. This is why a responsible Israeli government must develop a…
read moreOn Sept. 30, 2000, 10 Palestinians were killed across the West Bank and Gaza Strip during rioting, ostensibly in response to Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount. One of those 10 would become an icon: Mohammad al-Durrah. His posthumous…
read moreOn October 19, U.N.-appointed “human rights” expert John Dugard told the General Assembly that “Palestinian suicide bombers” are “a consequence of occupation.” In five years traveling on the U.N. payroll – 22 percent of which comes from American taxpayers –…
read morePerhaps the most extraordinary aspect of Darfur isn’t that gunmen on the Sudanese payroll heave babies into bonfires as they shout epithets against blacks. It’s that the rest of us are responding only with averted eyes and polite tut-tutting. This…
read moreFIFTY years ago tomorrow – on Oct. 29, 1956 – Israeli paratroops were dropped deep behind Egyptian lines in the Sinai peninsula, opening the way for the ground troops that followed. In a lightning campaign lasting less than five days,…
read moreWhen the recent Israeli-Hezbollah war ended, the United Nations’ newly organized human rights council, pressed by its Islamic members, spent its first two sessions criticizing Israel for allegedly causing heavy civilian casualties. But details are now known of a secret…
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