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May 30, 2003 at 6:45 PM

Washington's Betrayal
From the beginning of May until last Tuesday, the Palestinians carried out 323 terrorist attacks against Israeli targets. That is an average of 12 per day. These attacks include suicide bombings, penetrations of Israeli towns by gunmen, roadside shootings, grenade and anti-tank missile attacks, mortar shellings, rocket attacks, assaults, and stabbings. The navy's interception last... [ Read entire Post ]

May 23, 2003 at 8:20 PM

The road to a nuclear Iran
 As the world's media and foreign ministries have again trained their sights in on Israel and the Palestinians, a much more significant drama is being largely underplayed. At its meeting next month in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency will address the recent confirmation of reports that Iran is now poised to produce nuclear weapons.... [ Read entire Post ]

May 16, 2003 at 8:05 PM

Just the facts
"I have been in Israel for two years and have never spoken to someone with views like yours." So exclaimed a senior Western diplomat at the end of a pleasant lunch meeting with me on Wednesday afternoon. Surprised, I responded, "That's strange. If the results of the last election and recent polling data are any... [ Read entire Post ]

May 12, 2003 at 7:55 PM

Burns criticizes Israel supporters in US
In a meeting with Israeli left-wing political activists and PalestinianAuthority cabinet ministers last week, US Assistant Secretary of State forNear Eastern Affairs William Burns made disparaging statements regarding USPresident George W. Bush's political supporters in the US, intimating thatconservatives, Christians, as well as representatives of AIPAC, thepro-Israel lobby in Washington, lack common sense.This was revealed... [ Read entire Post ]

May 9, 2003 at 7:44 PM

Calling a war a war
After a 33-year delay, the IDF began distributing war decorations on YomHa'atzma'ut to veterans of the War of Attrition. That war, which until thispast November was never officially recognized as a war by the government,lasted from June 15, 1967 until August 8, 1970. Its toll was 1,425 IDFsoldiers and officers killed in action and more... [ Read entire Post ]

May 2, 2003 at 6:07 PM

Getting off the map
In the days immediately following the US military's liberation of Baghdad last month, the anarchy in the streets was a clear sign that the US had succeeded in the first half of its mission in Iraq. Its armed forces had overthrown the terror-supporting dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. In the weeks since the military victory was... [ Read entire Post ]

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