Will the recognition and creation of a Palestinian state by the United Nations Security Council magically end Mideast unrest? Can the UN fulfill the role of the Wizard of Oz and help ensure that...
AIPAC welcomes yesterday’s passage of a resolution in the Senate (S. Res. 185) threatening to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if its leaders “persist in efforts to...
On May 29, 2011. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a report which implicated four members of the second battalion of the US/Canadian trained NSF, the Palestinian National Security Force, in the...
Now that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his recent sparring partner Barack Obama are back in their corners, the next Arab-Israeli political flash point could be this fall at the U.N....
There will be no peace with the Palestinians. Not this year, not this decade, perhaps not this generation. Even if Ehud Olmert becomes prime minister again, there will be no peace with the...
Like many Jewish people around the world, and certainly in the United States, I watched with bated breath the press conference/meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama, as...
Nakba Day a Disastrous Tactic for Mideast Peace By Anav Silverman, Sderot Media Center,May 22, 2011 oiginally publsished at www.sderotmedia.org.il As I celebrated Israel's Independence Day last...
Friends of Israel Initiative in the AIPAC Policy Conference The following is the speech delivered by the Friends of Israel Initiative Chairman José María Aznar to the AIPAC...
[Editor’s note: On reading about the events of Nakba Day on May 15, 2011, I thought of this past summer when I was at Kibbutz Manara which sits right on the border with Lebanon. When you...
[Reprinted with permission. First published Jan 21, 2011] My neighbor on the page where my weekly column appears in Yisrael Hayom, Yossi Beilin, commented last week that Israel was returning...
[written May 2011] Dore gold is a former Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Summary:The public debate in Israel over the Palestinian plan to seek UN support for statehood in September is...
His country is so remote that only devoted,...
I want to alert readers to a worthwhile analysis of the Reconciliaton Agreement Between Fatah and Hamas written by Pinhas Inbari, senior Policy Analyst at the Jerusalem centre for Public...
Amidst all the furor over the Palestinian rapprochement and their efforts to declare a state unilaterally, a small victory was scored this week, with the defeat—or rather,...
Their names are known—and their photos posted-- in schools and synagogues throughout the world. They stare at us—the older ones from faded, sepia-toned photographs—from bookmarks,...
[reprinted with permission. First published in the National Post] With the war in Libya showing no sign of abating, we shouldn’t be surprised to discover that, as Moammar...
[first published in the Jerusalem Post] When I first expressed concern that the protesters in Egypt needed some support to implement democracy, I was immediately pilloried by critics who said...
Ambassador Jean-Daniel Ruch, Special Representative of Switzerland for the Middle East, said at a session at the recent J Street convention in Washington in March 2011 that in Gaza...
Allen Z. Hertz was senior advisor in the Privy Council Office serving Canada's Prime Minister and the federal cabinet. He also worked in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and earlier taught...
[This was originally published in the Natioanl Post March 18, 2011. Reprinted with permission.] The Arab world is in turmoil. The residents of Egypt and Tunisia have een driven out of office by...
On February 20, 2011 the world woke up to news that a group of Libyan rebels in the eastern part of the country (the coastal bulge known, since ancient times, as Cyrenaica) had risen up against Muammar Gaddafi.
[Editor's note :This article was originally printed last week on the Ynet website and is being reprinted with the permission of the author. The writer Shoula Romano Horing was born and...
Readers will appreciate this article by Catherine Porter in the Toronto Star which begins as follows: "Three days after the earthquake levelled Port-au-Prince last year, a foreign...
As journalists cover complex Middle East negotiations, news outlets often characterize lulls in hostilities as an armistice or a cease-fire, reminiscent in the western mind to the end of hostilities...
[Editros note: this was originally written on March 16, 2011. Reprinted with permission] Iran's recent attempt to ship arms to Hamas in Gaza is an act of war committed by the Iranian...
IPCRI ADVISED PALESTINIANS TO SUBMIT SETTLEMENT RESOLUTION TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL USING CLINTON’S WORDS IPCRI ADVOCATES BUILDING OF CORRIDOR BETWEEN WEST BANK AND GAZA...
President of Israel. Shimon Peres flies to meet with US President Obama after the recent Peres embrace of J Street, the organization which tried to get the US to vote against Israel at the...
A bipartisan congressional letter condemning Palestinian incitement of violence against Israel gained 46 signatures from key members of Congress, according to a list of signers obtained by The Hill.
[Editor’s note: The following article “Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and War Crimes” written by Richard Goldstone appeared on Friday April 1, (April Fools Day) in the The Washington Post. The complete article is worth a read. My favourite lines in it, (from the mouth of Goldstone himself):
[Editor's note: Dr. Bryan Schwartz is a law professor at the University of Manitoba specializing in international and constitutional law. He holds an L.L.B from Queen's and...
[reprinted with permission] “Why is Israel blockading Gaza anyway?” “Why doesn’t Israel just make the Palestinian Authority an offer of the West Bank and Gaza?”...
[Editor's note: Since first publishing this article on March 31, 2011, it has been picked up by atleast 20 other websites, in addition to being published in the Ohio Jewish...
In his interview with the Wall Street Journal on March 8, Defense Minister Ehud Barak suggested that Israel seek an additional $20 billion in US security assistance given the changes that are...
A preliminary IDF Homefront Command medical delegation, comprising two doctors and a Homefront Command officer, arrived today (Monday 21 March 2011) in the Miyagi prefecture north of Tokyo and...
Despite masquerading as a "pro-Israel" organization, J Street has now effectively been exposed as an organization whose principal raison d’etre is to mobilize public opinion to encourage the Obama Administration to condemn Israel and intensify pressure on its elected government to make further unilateral concessions to the intransigent Palestinians.
Editor's note: Peter Beinart has emerged as one of the most prominent voices of the Left regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflct. The following is the speech Beinart...
Editor's note: The Facebook page calling for a third Palestinian intifada was taken down on Tuesday, after widespread calls for it to be removed. Read more:...
On Wednesday the 9th of March 2011, an unprecedented video conference was convened at the Sderot City Hall, between representatives and residents from Sderot and Ashkelon, on one side of the screen,...
Dennis Ross’s speech at J-Street was not what many J-street supporters hoped it would be. It was delivered without much enthusiasm. The American Jewish reporter sitting beside me said,...
[ Editor’s note: This was written by Mira Sucharov after last year’s IAW in April 2010. It represents her views as IAW approaches again year in March]
Last Sunday there was a very disturbing interview on the NBC News’ Meet the Press with the Egyptian Opposition leader, Muhammad Elbaradei, which did not get enough attention.
]It should have come as no surprise that in the Wikileaks documents that were published this week, Maj. General Ido Nechushastan, as head of the Planning Branch explained in 2007 to General Jim...
Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Negotiator resigned as the head of the Palestinian negotiating team on Sunday Feb 13.
Publication Made Possible by Research Grant From “The Middle East Forum” Executive Summary On the surface, the Palestinian Authority has scored a major achievement over the last five...
It has arguably not been a good week for Palestinianian Authortiy President Mahmoud Abbas. Last Saturday February 5, The Palestinian Authority finally allowed a protest to take...
This column was originally published in the Jerusalem Post If ever there was a need to provide irrefutable evidence of the extent to which all parties involved in the Arab Israeli conflict are...
No matter what position Palestinian secular leaders take on compromise with Israel, they will always be denounced as traitors by the extremists. That’s a fact one must remember in trying to...
[This is an article written on the 40th Anniversary of the Six day War--It is being re-run now since it is forty five years since the 1967 war and Palestinians ] Leaders of the Israeli Peace...
[Editor's note- I finished writing this article late in the evening on January 31, just HOURS before king abdullah of jordan sacked his cabinet.. you can see what I wrote based on my...
