Monthly Archives: August 2009

Jerusalem, Israel - For the first time in more than 20 years, Fatah (Arabic for “conquest”), the dominant ruling power of the Palestinian Authority, will gather next week for a conference in Bethlehem, with...

An area where Israel continues to cope with is the world wide campaign against Israel’s restrictions of potentially lethal exports into Gaza. Since the Hamas terror takeover of Gaza in June 2007, Israel did halt...

Jerusalem, Israel - A monograph published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, run by Dr. Dore Gold, a close advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahy, entitled "The Politics of the American Response to...

Jerusalem, Israel - Over the past few weeks, the Israeli government has gone on the offensive against human rights groups who have publicized allegations against Israel for many months, without any concerted Israeli response. One...

The New Israel Fund most recently told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that it would never cross “four red lines”: http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2009/07/24/1006776/new-israel-funds-red-lines • Engaging in racist behavior. • Demonizing any particular group. • Using or advocating violence as a means...

www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=216259 Jerusalem - Ma'an - The time has come for Fatah, Palestine's largest political party, to seek a strategic alliance with Iran, the movement's Jerusalem affairs liaison Hatim Abdul Qader told Ma'an on Saturday. In a statement, Abdul...

On Tuesday Fatah will hold its sixth congress in Bethlehem, at which point a draft party platform will be put to the vote. That draft explicitly notes that Israel must not be recognized as a Jewish...

The Fatah congress will not remove the clause supporting armed struggle from its platform, and will add a clause declaring that the movement does not, and will never, recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The new platform,...

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In December 2008, after seven years of Hamas and other terrorist groups launching rockets and mortar shells from Gaza at civilians in the south of Israel, Hamas announced that a six-month temporary ceasefire—during which...