Daily Archives: June 1, 2010

Script: For the Sake of Nakba

The so-called “right of return” for Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendents is not a new idea. Yet this claim — that the refugees have the right to return to villages they left in 1948...

Israel Was Right

Israel Was Right

Lessons from the Flotilla

Sherwin Pomerantz is a 26 year resident of Israel and President of Atid EDI Ltd., an economic development consulting firm in Jerusalem. The most important consideration in planning any action is to evaluate the decision...

JENIN ON THE HIGH SEAS

If Israel truly had wanted to “massacre” the Hamas sympathizers and fellow travellers aboard a six-ship Gaza-bound flotilla, the operation would not have been complicated. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would have used the...

‘Peace convoy’? This was an Islamist terror ambush

As the international community rushes to condemn Israel for the violence on board one of the ships in the Gaza flotilla, which left a reported 10 people dead and dozens injured, it is now...

Why Gaza aid flotilla was a media success

It was exactly the kind of coverage that pro-Palestinian activists behind the Gaza aid flotilla were aiming for: "Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship." Associated Press, BBC, Fox News, CNN and countless...

Form a commission of inquiry: HOW GAZA STARVATION RUMOR WAS PROMULGATED

Violence and deaths that occurred on ships en route to Gaza on May 31 represent the result of a systematic campaign of misinformation which conveyed the specious notion that the people of Gaza were...