There was palpable anxiety nationwide in the hours that preceded US President George W. Bush's speech on the Middle East Monday night. All the talk of establishing a "provisional" state of Palestine, as the Palestinian leadership to the last man is stained by terror and murder, was terrifying and infuriating and demoralizing. So when Bush declared "the Palestinian state…
It must be said: There is no peace process. Yasser Arafat, who is the declared commander of Fatah-Tanzim, the proud perpetrator of Wednesday's kamikaze attack on babies and grandmothers in Jerusalem, and the enabler of Hamas, which perpetrated Tuesday's massacre in the capital, is a terrorist and a murderer. The Palestinian Authority is not simply a regime that "cavorts with…
Israel stands at the precipice of a strategic breakdown. But first, the good news. The Bush administration's determination to topple Saddam Hussein's regime is by definition a good thing for Israel. Saddam Hussein has repeatedly expressed his dedication to the goal of physically destroying the State of Israel. A nuclear-armed Iraq is a threat that Israel cannot tolerate. Clearly,…
Speaking before the Knesset Law Committee on Tuesday, Attorney-General Elyakim Rubinstein warned lawmakers that the new International Criminal Court, set to start operating on July 1, is liable to indict and try for war crimes any Israeli citizen who moves across the Green Line. According to the Rome Treaty of 1998 which established the ICC, "The transfer, directly or…
Pakistan and India today stand on the brink of nuclear war. The 1962 Cuban missile crisis – the world's previous nuclear showdown – was a walk in the park when compared to the danger emanating from the Indian subcontinent, home to some 20 percent of the world's population. India, with its powerful army, robust democratic society, and enormous population…