Monthly Archives: September 2010

ISRAEL PUBLIC RELATIONS MINISTER, YULI EDELSTEIN:”BARAK DOESN’T PRESENTS US”

Sept.21, 2010 Israel Public Relations Minister Yuli Edelstein bitterly assailed his coalition partner, Israel Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, fearing that Barak might try to promote an independent policy decision of his own to extend the construction...

Will the New Israel Fund Change its Policies? Two Leading Israeli Journalists Offer their...

PREMATURE TO CELEBRATE Ma’ariv. Sept. 21, 2010 by Ben-Dror Yemini (comment) -- The New Israel Fund assists dozens of organizations that do sacred work in fields such as social assistance, women’s rights, environment issues and...

The Secrets that were Buried With Arafat: Few People Know That Arafat Never Got...

Two uniformed PA gaurds stand by Arafat's grave in Ramallah in the West Bank. The grave has a verse from the Koran. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. The newly rebuilt Muqata in Ramallah, which is located...

A Time of Dialogue: Questions that Jewish Groups Can Ask PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY LEADERS, ABBAS...

This week, Palestinian Authority leaders Machmud Abbas and Salam Fayyad arrive in Washington. According to reports that have appeared in both the Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post newspapers, the purpose of their trip is...

Will New Middle East Negotiations Trigger The Next IDF Incursion into Gaza?

Palestinian armed forces have fired 19 rockets, missiles and mortars from Gaza into Sderot and surrounding farming communities in Israel's Western Negev region since September 4th.. Residents of Sderot and the Western Negev...

A critical new text for understanding the Middle East: “The Sources of Iranian negotiating...

There are basically two ways to approach the Middle East: * Option 1: Understand what makes Farsi- and Arabic-speaking, Muslim-majority societies different from the West given their history, experiences, culture, politics, and other features. * Option...

This year Hamas’ summer camps in the Gaza Strip again combined political Islamic indoctrination...

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MICHAEL IGNATIEFF IN WINNIPEG TELLS WINNIPEG JEWISH REVIEW HE SUPPORTS BUILDING OF MOSQUE AT...

What about building Global Centre for Peace instead? The Winnipeg Jewish Review was invited to a press conference held by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff recently in the latter part of August while he was in...

Incisive moments on a family trip : TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT …TO CELEBRATE MY...

My extended family returned recently from a trip to Israel and Egypt to celebrate our younger son's Bar Mitzvah. We are grateful and blessed that our dream trip was realized. We marked Noah’s becoming...

The Continuous Terror Paradigm proposed by Dr Shalev and colleagues from Hadassah University Hospital.

While many studies in the literature evaluate PTSD following a discrete traumatic occurrence, the recent article by Shalev and colleagues evaluates the effect of continuous terror by examining the occurrence of general distress, PTSD...