This is what Israel should offer Saudi Arabia

What’s clear about the American led effort to bring about a rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is that it has a secondary agenda that aims to undermine not only our G-d given claim...

BDS and the Oscars: How Screenwriter Ben Hecht Defied an Anti-Israel Boycott

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/164020/bds-oscars-ben-hecht Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht said he “beamed with pride” when he heard the news on that autumn afternoon in 1948: The British had declared a boycott against him. By day, Hecht was the highest-paid...

Bedein vs. Palestinian Authority: ‘First entity in the world to endorse murder of Jews’

David Bedein, Director of the Israel Resource news agency at the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, has a strong message for the new right wing Israeli government to be very careful...

Official PA Radio News – the PBC Radio October 31

There has been a fundamental change in the broadcast content and tone of VOP in the last 24 hours. President Yasser Arafat and VOP have communicated their complete support for the Fatah and Tanzeem...

Police and Harsh Rhetoric in Bethlehem

Rhonda Spivak, an attorney and a writer, is a member of the Canadian and Israel Bar Associations. It was a hot Friday afternoon on August 7, when I went to Bethlehem on. I didn’t have...

What to Do About Syria

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/02/what-to-do-about-syria/ There is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something relatively low-cost and ineffective, indeed, precisely what...

CONTINUED U.S. TRAINING OF PA SECURITY FORCES: A DANGEROUS VENTURE

It has been reported that U.S. President Barack Obama recently pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to continue the American program for helping the Palestinian Authority upgrade its security forces That program in question began...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Like many other UN relief agencies, UNRWA was founded in the midst of a refugee emergency that occurred in the wake of war. The UN organized UNRWA as a special relief agency that was...

Sure Israel has a right of self-defense. Of course.

In a very fine editorial, The real racism: Expecting Jews to die meekly, http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=243452, Martin Sherman notices that the world repeats robotically that Israel has the right to defend itself, but he notes correctly,...

The People of Sa-Nur

Sa Nur, Israel On July 4th, 2005, I step down from a bulletproof journalists' tour bus onto the controversial soil of Sa-nur, one of the four Shomron area settlements to be evacuated come mid-August. My...