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But there is more to the man than opposition to abortion, gerrymandering in Texas and bare-knuckles politics in Washington. He is also a fervent Christian Zionist.

Any wall can be breached, climbed over, undermined, tunneled under, or flown over. It will not deter enemies from firing rockets or mortars over the wall.

Later, after the first intifada "broke out" in December 1987, many among the leadership were traced back to that prisoner release.

Many are under the impression that individuals in academia are by definition people who judge events from an unbiased, rational viewpoint.

Looking For A Jewish DeLayI read with great interest - even fascination - Congressman Tom DeLay's speech to the Knesset ("Be Not Afraid," Jewish Press,...

Recently, a weekly television program that focuses on Israel featured a debate between a young woman from an Arab-American organization and the show's host, who in real life is a prominent attorney and real estate developer.

These leaders must not only renounce terrorism, but eradicate it. They must acknowledge Israel's right to exist, secure in its borders, for all time. And they must work to ensure their neighbors in the Arab community do the same.

The bumps on the path to implementing the road map must be smoothed out in order for us to proceed -- not in the direction you Israelis stupidly envision, but in the direction so clearly specified in our organization's charter.

In the 1940's and 50's, I was told, the rabbi whose rulings were cited in thousands of homes across North America was R. Henkin.

"Until now, pronouncements about a Jewish National Home had only been words on paper; but now they rose before us embodied in the person of a Jewish High Commissioner...Many of the Jews present had tears in their eyes."

Immediately, some skeptics began to point out inconsistencies between the two photos.

It is just one more of those unpleasant facts of life that the anti-Israel lobbies of the planet have no real interest in the well being of the Palestinians, but are merely motivated by hostility to Jews.

High On ZionSidney Zion's front-page essay ('The Palestine Problem: It's All In A Name,' Jewish Press, Aug. 1) was one of the most thought-provoking...

Controversial pundit Ann Coulter's best-selling book Treason has raised the ire of liberals, and not a few conservatives, who feel she wields too broad a brush in painting Americans on the left side of the political divide as unpatriotic - even, as the title implies, treasonous.

If it became clear that the Arab refugees and their children who crossed over to Jordan in 1948 did not enter a 'host country' but rather the Arab part of their own country, would it not make a difference?

When the Jews stray from the way of G-d, they will be driven out of their land into exile.

You might wonder why I seem so surprised by what I found in a notoriously liberal bookstore in a notoriously liberal city.

The Jews insisted on staking a claim to a barren little place that no one else really wanted.

While people around me dove for cover, ran frantically and crawled helplessly in hopes of escaping, I froze for a moment, trying to make sense of the state of panic that had abruptly seized the room.

Remembering GidoneWhen people read of my late son Gidone Busch, they have this image of an emotionally disturbed man with a hammer (which was...

How went the Bush-Abbas meeting at the White House last Friday? Depends on whom or what you read. Most newspapers highlighted Bush's criticism of Israel's security wall while relegating to secondary status the president's sharp words to Abbas about the necessity of halting Palestinian terror.

It's been ten years, but I still remember the special hamburger and chips they offered my boys on the plane, and the exhilarating feeling knowing that the stewards on the plane knew that this was my first voyage home.

Even if they did undertake such a massive project, it would take years, not months, to locate these weapons and particles.

Ariel Sharon is well aware of the politics involved, and the desire of the United States to not only bring peace to the Middle East, but to improve its still strained relations with Europe.

America's mainstream media, like its political arena, have been largely free of such extreme, abhorrent anti-Israel and anti-Semitic characterizations. Yet infection can spread.

Now that there is supposed to be a cease-fire and true Middle East reciprocity, every single act of savagery and violence by the Palestinians must be met with massive Israeli retaliation, firepower and reprisals.

1. The Arab world has never come to terms with Israel's existence within any set of borders whatsoever and is still seeking the destruction of Israel and its population.

It happened to have been Jewish Heritage Day at Shea Stadium.  What, I wondered, is “Jewish Heritage?”  Well, now I was going to find out.

The Monitor really hadn't planned on writing once again about Harry Truman.

Little could I imagine when I responded to an employment ad in a paper, just over five years ago, that my career would evolve the way it did.