Posts Tagged: terrorism
Iran and Israel’s Southern Front
Israelis following the escalation of rocket launches against southern Israel this past week probably noticed all the reports that the Palestinian organization...
Negotiating with Terrorists
The world has just witnessed yet another historic, lopsided prisoner exchange between Israel and a terrorist organization. When Hamas abducted Gilad Shalit back in June...
What If?
Last Saturday, The New York Times published an extensive article by Richard Perez-Pena headlined "Koch and N.Y.U. Clash Over Terrorism Report." The article...
A Special 9/11 Message
On this tenth anniversary we remembered our neighbors and colleagues lost on September 11th and the heroic first responders who tried to save them. They...
“Are We Safer?”
Three weeks after 9/11, I wrote an article titled "Why This American Feels Safer" in which I noted that, unlike the 2/3s of my fellow...
How Jihad Influenced the Norway Massacre
In his manifesto, Anders Breivik, the perpetrator of the Norway massacre, in which 80 people were killed and many wounded, mentioned the Crusades and aspects...
Revised FBI Guidelines Will Aid Terrorism Fight
Pending revisions to an FBI operations guide could help agents more quickly and aptly perform investigations, including counterterrorism-related inquires, according to former...
Al-Qaeda’s Zawahiri, Bigger Threat Than Osama?
Now that Ayman Zawahiri has assumed leadership of al-Qaeda, it is important to end the widespread perception that he is a dour intellectual who is...
Gilad Shalit, Five Years
Almost five years ago, on June 25th 2006, terrorists affiliated with Hamas invaded Israel through an underground tunnel, killed two Israeli soldiers and made away...
The Emptying of Yemen
For the first time in its exceedingly long history, Yemen now threatens the outside world. It does so in two principal ways. First, even before the...
Happy Birthday, Israel!
This week, Israel celebrates its 63rd birthday. For most countries, that number would elicit a shrug of the shoulders. Not in Israel's case. Considering Israel's extraordinary history,...
No Way to Run a “Hasbara” Railroad
On April 7th, just after the driver of the yellow school bus of the Sha'ar Ha-Negev Regional Council had dropped off his last passengers, an...
When Terror is Only “Terror”
When is a terror attack not a terror attack but just a "terror attack?" September 11, of course that's a terror attack - no dispute...
Hizballah Takes Aim at Tel Aviv
Hizballah plans to empty its storehouse of 40,000 missiles in a new war with Israel, including sending 100 missiles per day toward Tel Aviv, U.S....
