Op-ed: Arafat replaced Shukeiri, and Abbas replaced Arafat, but Palestinian policy of refusal, obstinacy has remained the same

At the end of August 1967, shortly after the Six Day War, the heads of Arab states held a special conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, where the three famous "Nos" were decided on: No to peace with Israel; no to the recognition of Israel; and no to negotiations with Israel. The PLO representative at the conference, Ahmad Shukeiri, was even more...

America's promotion of 'softened Arab peace initiative' a spit in the face of Israeli democracy

The buds of peace are blossoming again, and, as always, they are being irrigated with Jewish blood. Eviatar Borovsky joined more than 1,500 "victims of peace" since Oslo – a huge political experiment with humans as lab animals.   Everything is planned in advance: Obama's visit, an onslaught of smiles and love to soften the land; the launching of the "John...

Drone sent into Israel is meant to remind the Lebanese public that Hezbollah is still defined by its jihad against Israel.

Hezbollah’s attempt – likely Iranian-backed – to fly a drone into Israeli air space on Thursday is a dangerous publicity stunt designed to distract attention from its large-scale and bloody involvement in the Syrian civil war.   As the Shi’ite terror organization sends more and more fighters to kill Sunni Syrian rebels, and to try and save the...

There was something Hassan Nasrallah-like, Ismail Haniyeh-ish, in the way Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stepped up to numerous microphones over the past two days and crowed that Israel acceded to all of Ankara’s demands in apologizing for theMavi Marmara incident.

These claims bring to mind the Hezbollah and Hamas leaders because the Turkish leaders’ words created a perception not exactly in line with reality.



Nasrallah...

Israel had nothing to fear from Bashar al-Assad, and may have even had an ally in him, a Syrian insider said in an interview

Israel had nothing to fear from Bashar al-Assad, and may have even had an ally in him, a Syrian businessman said in an interview Thursday. Speaking to Al-Arabiya television, Fares Tlass, who is well-connected with top Syrian officials, said that Assad's threats against Israel were all bark and no bite, and that both countries had signed numerous secret agreements on...

Palestinians will never be satisfied with small independent state; they want revenge

US President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry are expected to visit the region together in late March to try and promote an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. It is amazing to see how American policy has not changed in 20 years. Each administration creates expectations regarding a solution to the conflict without reassessing it and asking the basic question: Why have the peace efforts failed so...

Syria’s chemical weapons could become a world problem, INSS expert warns. Rebels, not Hizbullah, the biggest threat.



If Syria’s chemical weapons fall into the wrong hands, the world may begin to experience terrorist attacks usingchemical weapons, researcher Yiftah Shapir of the Institute for National Security Studies warned in an interview with Arutz Sheva.

Perhaps surprisingly, Shapir said that Hizbullah is not the biggest threat.

Hizbullah already...

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe.

What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.   The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself...