Incisive News Analysis From Jerusalem

"The Prime Minister's Talk" Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a talk in the Knesset last night, in recognition of the 107th anniversary of the death of Theodore Herzl, father of the Jewish State. This talk is widely...

Israeli Pundits React to the Death of Arafat

All clips from Friday, November 05, 2004: Irrelevant Ma'ariv (p. 1) by Dan Margalit (news analysis) -- Yasser Arafat is dead. At least, he is as good as dead. He hoisted a flag. Stabbed with a sword....

Incisive News Coverage of Israel

Posting: September 21, 2008 "Narrative" In the Torah reading for this past Shabbat -- Ki Tavo -- Moses speaks to the children of Israel shortly before they cross the Jordan River "into the Land that G-d...

Barak’s “Red Line” Coalition

Quotes from text: "There are enough hawks in Israel's emerging coalition -- including perhaps Barak -- to insure that no withdrawal from occupied south Lebanon is likely to be forthcoming without firm Syrian or international...

Official Palestinian Authority Media Report that Israel has Agreed that “Badr Division” of Palestinian...

June 11, 2005 Voice of Palestine radio reported late Saturday that Israel had reached agreement with Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to allow the "Badr Division" of Palestinian forces to enter the West Bank...

Official PA radio news – The P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: February 3-4

Special Item - PA Announcement - Saturday Night, February 3, 2001 9:10 p.m. "An official spokesman for the Ministry of Information announced that what has been published in the newspapers and in the media regarding...

Lawmakers Told of Alleged UN Links to Middle East Terror

Recently declassified documents by Israeli intelligence links United Nations workers with Middle East terrorist organizations, an Israeli journalist and social worker told Capitol Hill lawmakers Wednesday. David Bedein, bureau chief of the Jerusalem-based Israel Resource...

Applying Jim Crow to Israel: An Open Letter to Secretary Rice

Madame Secretary, Allow me to introduce myself. I am an American-born Israeli, and since my early childhood I have been sympathetic to the civil rights movement in the US, and human rights movement around the...

Worse and Worser

The truth: There is no entirely satisfactory resolution to our war with Hamas (the war that is not called a war). Aside, of course, from that “ultimate” resolution in which we would fully retake Gaza...

THE MAVI MARMARA INCIDENT, RAFAH, AND EGYPT’S STEEL WALL

July 1, 2010 Tally Helfont is an FPRI research fellow. Her research focuses on Middle East-related issues and radical Islamic movements. She also instructs training courses on behalf of K3 Enterprises in Civil Information Management to U.S. Military Civil...