Palestine’s ‘economic miracle’ : Immense amount of international donations inflate Palestinians’ disposable income

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3845134,00.html Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has been crowned as "the Palestinian Ben-Gurion at the recent Herzliya Conference. However, there is a great gap between the achievements attributed to him and his abilities in practice. Fayyad...

Hamas faces fiscal crisis due to tight restrictions and blockade: sources

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6890169.html The deposed government of the Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement, which rules the impoverished enclave of the Gaza Strip, faces a severe fiscal crisis due to the lack of financial liquidity and the tight restrictions...

Analysis: How Hamas Has Responded to Goldstone’s charges

Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah-Halevi is a senior researcher of the Middle East and radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is a co-founder of the Orient Research Group Ltd. and...

Israel on Canadian college campuses; an up-hill battle

Presenting the human side of Sderot, Israel and the western Negev would seem innocuous enough, as it is the only region in the western world where rockets and missiles target a civilian population. The...

On Free Speech and Informed Public Debate: An Open Letter to NIF and Affiliated...

http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article.php?operation=print&id=2810 February 02, 2010 NGO Monitor To ACRI, Bimkom, B’Tselem, Gisha, PCATI, Yesh Din, HaMoked, PHR-I, Rabbis for Human Rights, and New Israel Fund (NIF): The recent attacks directed against NGO Monitor’s detailed research represent a dangerous attempt...

INVESTIGATION OF THE NEW ISRAEL FUND

Meet Ron Shuval. He is 29, married plus two, lives in Ramat Hasharon, secular, served in the Armored Corps, works in high-tech. He has a BA in international relations and philosophy, an MA in...

FOUL PLAY AT THE NEW ISRAEL FUND

The New Israel Fund is angry. It thinks that it is correct to disseminate false testimony about the State of Israel. It thinks that it is okay to take part in the demonization campaign...

Israeli Intelligence Think Tank Hosts Palestinian leader: Issues Ultimatum to Israel

Herzelia, Israel On Tuesday, February 2, Palestinian Authority leader Salman Fayyad made an unprecedented appearance at the annual “Herzlia conference” of the leading lights of Israeli intelligence, and used the occasion to issue an ultimatum...

Israel’s Tri-Dimensional Strategy

Dr. Emmanuel Navon (formerly: Mréjen) is a consultant, an academic and a public speaker specialized in International Relations. He was born in 1971 in Paris, where he went to an English-speaking school and graduated...