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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Competing World Views Tear A “Peace Process” to Pieces
The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail.
Special Envoy George Mitchell explains:
"We are all well aware that there remains...
Timmerman: Sanctions Key Weapon Against Iran
Economic sanctions represent a key tool in the U.S. effort to prevent Iran from creating nuclear weapons, says Newsmax contributing editor Ken Timmerman.
“I believe sanctions are necessary from a moral perspective,” he told Newsmax.TV....
WHAT’S NEW IN RAMALLAH: PALESTINIANS STILL HATE ABU ALLA; NO EVIDENCE OF FAYYAD POPULARITY
Private architecturally designed home being built in Ramallah. photo by Rhonda Spivak
Abu Alla (Ahmed Qurai) and Tzipi Livni of Kadima. photo by Rhonda Spivak
New Coffee shop in Ramallah. photo by Rhonda Spivak
Palestinian Authority police...
Saddam-style freedom at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel.
Omer Gertel
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Saddam Hussein won 100% of the vote in the elections held in Iraq in 2002.
This accomplishment made him very happy, as it proved that popular support for him grew since the 1995 elections,...
The Saudi Arms Deal
On August 13, 2010, several reports appeared in the US media on plans by the Obama
administration to sell arms to Saudi Arabia valued at $60 billion over a
period of ten years. The reported deal...
Will these Israeli Commandos Who Landed on the Flotilla be Summoned to Testify at...
Naval commandos who stormed the Gaza bound flotilla, who are not allowed to be identified in photos.
Photo by Rhonda Spivak.
Nissim Sharify and Mayor o f Netanya Miriam Fierberg at ceremony for inaugauration of new...
How young can a Rabbi be?
Photo by: Rhonda Spivak
Fourteen-year-old Moshe Sharify, a quiet, pious and extremely gifted child, desperately wants to become a rabbi. However, an unofficial ruling doesn’t allow this.
Fourteen-year-old boy wonder Moshe Raziel Sharify, who lives with...
from January 2010 until the end of July 2010, 120 rockets from Gaza were...
The number of rockets and mortars launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip has dramatically reduced after Operation Cast Lead from December 2008-January 2009, during which the IDF acted to prevent Hamas and other...
U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians
Since the establishment of limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the
mid-1990s, the U.S. government has committed approximately $5 billion in bilateral assistance to
the Palestinians, who are among the world’s...
UNRWA calls Israeli TV portrayal of Palestinian refugees a ‘stack of lies’ UN relief...
The United Nations' relief agency for Palestinian refugees, lashed out Tuesday at the Israel Broadcasting Authority for airing what it called a a dishonest portrayal of the organization on Saturday in "Ro'im Olam" on...
