http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1285603&ct=11589307¬oc=1 UN WATCH, GENEVA, Jan. 17 - The stabbing in Gaza of a Palestinian rights activist...
The following is a letter penned by an Israeli doctor in December 2011, after learning of being denied access to the World diabetes Congress in Dubai. Dear friends and colleagues, Many...
Former PA minister Nabil Amr warns that his party will be defeated again if new elections are held in Palestinian territories. A senior Fatah official warned Thursday that Hamas would...
Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s...
In 2003, Pakistan's then President Pervez Musharaff sought to re-examine his country's relationship, or lack thereof, with Israel. He asked: "Do we have to be more Palestinian than the...
Many Palestinians are finding it increasingly difficult to understand what Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas really wants. Some say they are even confused because of...
In recent months, Egyptian authorities have finally began granting Egyptian citizenship to children born to Egyptian mothers and Palestinian fathers. So far, according to Palestinian sources, more...
More than any previous prime minister of Israel, "Bibi" cares about what people say about him and carefully monitors feedback that he gets from the public. The time has come to galvanize...
If you have been reading the papers, you know that most sushi chefs in Israel are Asian. Now, I didn’t think that was so unusual until I realized that chop suey is probably one of the most...
The prevailing optimism in media reports concerning the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist party's readiness to adhere to the peace treaty with Israel is based on...
Since the end of the Second World War, millions of refugees have left refugee camps, and refugee status, and moved to countries that accepted them–quickly or slowly–as citizens....
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=472&fld_id=474&doc_id=5992 A new Palestinian Authority TV music video honoring Arafat glorifies Fatah use of violence and venerates the rifle. Last month it...
Readers can watch freed soldier Gild Shalit expresses his gratitude during message played at event held in honor of supporters who fought for his release. Gilad Schalit thanked...
Today (Thursday, 8th December 2011), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon told an event at the United Nations that it is time to end, to change the mandate of UNRWA and the morally...
Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found are a great way to understand the Palestinian narrative. Specifically, Carroll uses time and space as the plot device while drawing on...
While serving as a Canadian delegate to the annual inter-parliamentary hearing at the United Nations, I came across an exhibit marking the annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian...
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the Palestinian Diplomatic Mission to the UK from using a "misleading" interactive map on its website, which appears to have wiped...
"Deception: Betraying the Peace Process" catalogues and contextualizes the PA's numerous violations of commitments to peace process, reveals flagrant messages of hate; Nobel Laureate Elie...
Since last February I have predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood would win elections in Egypt. People have thought me very pessimistic. Now the votes are starting to come in...
Whoever thinks that U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 – the famous Partition Plan – from Nov. 29, 1947, is for historians of the Middle East alone, is not aware of the role that...
I teach a course in international politics at the University of North Florida. Throughout my entire university experience, from the time I obtained an undergraduate degree at the University of...
My name is Aron Adler. I am 25 years old, was born in Brooklyn NY, and raised in Efrat Israel. Though very busy, I don’t view my life as unusual. Most of the time, I am just another...
The third intifada is already here, and it is being waged against Israel not on the streets of Gaza and Ramallah, but in the international arena. This is a Diplomatic Intifada, aimed at rallying the...
Last year in Netanya, Israel I met a very special man Moshe Shamir, a Holocaust survivor, who, over 20 years ago founded an organization to help new immigrants (Olim) to Israel, called "This...
The Palestinian Authority succeeded last Monday in becoming a member state in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The vote was 107 in favor, 14 opposed,...
Air Force views this incident with the fullest gravity, noting that they have never encountered a similar situation. Egyptian helicopter invades Israel's airspace Pilot flies over Negev for 25...
It appears that across Israel, from Mount Hermon to Eilat’s shores, there was not even one person last week who remembered the 17th anniversary of the peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom,...
The Palestinians who are heading to Syria have been told their next station will be Jordan, then Israel, where, with their friends in Jabhat al-Nusra, they hope to create an pan-Islamic state ruled...
In the long-standing debate regarding the Palestinian political strategy and the prospects of reaching a peaceful settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, some argue that the...
Al Qassam website - Gaza - Palestinians freed by Israeli occupation forces in a trade for soldier Gilad Shalit took their morning exercise on Wednesday around a luxury swimming pool overlooking the...
[Editor: This article published in the Wall Street Journal is worth a read.] The Unintended Consequences of French Support for Palestinian Statehood - Jonathan Schanzer and...
My advice to Mr. Areikat is to drop the ATFP boycott and instead confront the fanatics who hold the Palestinian leadership hostage. PLO representative Maen Areikat reportedly announced last week...
[Editor's note: This article by Marianne Tanzer caught my attention because I also have mmories of being tested to obtain a driver's liscence in Israel. I have an imprint in my mind of...
Dear Mr. Abbas, Generally I write to my fellow Jews and Israelis for our high holidays. For you Yom Kippur is, of course, not a day of reckoning, but I hope you will accept these words from an...
It has become almost axiomatic for Western leaders who are aware of Israel's acute military vulnerability to suggest that international forces be deployed to address the Israeli-Palestinian...
It is obvious that the Palestinians will not achieve the legal stamp of statehood after they turned up at the United Nations on September 20. They were aware that, despite having the bulk of the...
At a time when a Palestinian Arab sovereign state is so widely discussed, very few have taken the time to consider the consequences of establishing such an entity. 1. Encirclement: Will a...
"There was an overall attack on Israel; the sense of being under siege was overwhelming. Europe always only gave the support of a broken reed, and now as well. The U.S., despite what often...
[Editor's note: This is one of the more interesting articles I have come across in the Palestinian media] BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian team responsible for preparing the United Nations...
[This column was originally published in the Jerusalem Post on August 22 ] The latest terrorist attack in southern Israel was no random outburst. The Hamas leadership is unquestionably...
Update: Since writing this report initially earlier today, it has now been learned that the co-ordinated terror attacks of today in Eilat were carried out by terror cells affiliated with the...
The Palestinian Authority proposes to become the 194th member of the United Nations by a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state in September. Those who complain that such a declaration...
Below is an article that appeared Thursday, August 5 in The Advocate from award-wining author Lillian Faderman, "If You Take Down Israel, What Else Goes With It?." It is...
I am an epidemiologist specializing in the investigation of the role of incitement of all kinds as early warning signs, predictors, promoters and catalysts for conflict, terror, mass atrocities, war...
The Palestinian leadership has made clear its intentions to seek recognition of an independent Palestinian state at the United Nations this coming September. Some might question why such action...
[Editor's note: August 8, 2011- Subsequent to the writing of this article there were 300,000 Israelis who protested in Tel-Aviv against the cost of liivng-and Ruby Rivlin, the Speaker of...
This week, the DAGEN newspaper from Norway commissioned an evaluation of the new “Human Rights Curriculum” that has recently been published in Arabic by UNRWA,the United Nations Relief...
While everyone in Washington was concentrating on the debt crisis this week, the Obama administration attempted to slip through a questionable arms deal that requires serious scrutiny. Though it got...
It’s no coincidence that Hamas refuses to support Salam Fayyad remaining prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Fayyad symbolizes the growing but challenged Palestinian moderate movement...
