Tom Rose is a journalist and commentator who covered Israeli politics and Middle Eastern affairs for The Weekly Standard between 2000 and 2007. His reporting focused extensively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the Arafat era and Israeli political figures such as Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu. He served as publisher of the Jerusalem Post and has been a prominent voice on U.S.-Israel relations.
THE PAST WEEK has been a good one for terrorists. The birth of the world's first truly terrorist state in Gaza was quickly followed by a Western response that, if sustained, all but guarantees that terror state's survival.
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LAST WEEK'S STANDOFF at Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity and the suicide bombing at Rishon le Zion's Sheffield Pool Hall both made for gripping television. But neither will change the dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the way the week's most significant development did. The week's…
JERUSALEM VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY'S surprise offer to meet with Yasser Arafat on condition that Arafat "showed a 100 percent effort" to stop terror was the biggest news story of March 19. But just 12 hours later, a suicide bombing ripped apart an Israeli bus, murdering seven civilians and…
JERUSALEM TO UNDERSTAND WHY Ariel Sharon's first year as Israel's prime minister may not be followed by a second, one need look no further back than February 21. After months of virtual silence, Sharon addressed his people in a nationally televised address following the worst week of violence in…
Jerusalem IF NEW PROOF were needed that reforming Yasser Arafat is a lost cause, the Israeli navy's pre-dawn seizure last week of a cargo vessel destined for Gaza City and packed with 50 tons of weapons supplied by Iran should have provided it. The ship was registered to Arafat's Palestinian…
JERUSALEM NO ONE INSIDE ISRAEL wonders why Prime Minister Ariel Sharon abruptly cancelled a trip to Washington long scheduled for November 11-13. Everyone here knows that Sharon, at the urging of advisers and allies, cancelled the trip to avoid facing an American president unhappy about Israel's…
THE FIRST CRISIS TO THREATEN ISRAEL’S four-month-old national unity government was caused by a handshake: Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat were photographed shaking hands at the Socialist International Conference in Lisbon on July 1. How could Israel expect…
THE LONG-RUNNING ARGUMENT in Washington over Yasser Arafat’s responsibility for the terror campaign against Israeli civilians should have been settled on June 2, the day after a Palestinian suicide bomber murdered 20 Israelis, mostly teenage girls, outside a Tel Aviv disco. That day, the…
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