Monthly Archives: November 2010

“THERE MAY NOT BE AN AMERICAN LETTER”

(Last week, Israel Resource Review reported David Bedein's stories from Washington that the US government would not confirm reported US assurances in exchange for Israeli willingness to freeze any building in Judea and Samaria.) Those...

CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri?

Who killed Rafik Hariri? His assassination in February 2005 rocked the power arrangements in the Middle East and turned him into an overarching symbol of everything that was wrong in Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) It wasn't...

Why Israel is a rogue state [Gabriel Latner]

In October there was a debate in Cambridge; the proposition - "Israel is a rogue state". Gabriel Latner was the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to...

THE ROLE OF JOHN GING, UNRWA DIRECTOR IN GAZA, IN POLITICAL WARFARE

John Ging has been the head of the United Nation Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza since 2006. In this role, and despite his reported opposition to the BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions)...

U.S. Officials: What Freeze Commitments? David Bedein Reports on Trip to the US

United States officials are unfamiliar with the commitments America is allegedly offering Israel in exchange for a ban on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, says investigative journalist David Bedein. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu...

News Analysis:”The Other Shoe?”

What is being touted as minor glitches in the negotiations between Israel and the US with regard to the "freeze" deal are actually much more. And so the talking goes on and on. All...

A SHORT HISTORY OF U.S. GUARANTEES TO ISRAEL

Pres. Obama seems surprised that Bibi is so insistent on dotting the i's and crossing the t's in his letter of guarantees in order to extend the building moratorium for another 90 days. It’s...

IF OBAMA IS SERIOUS, LET HIM SIGN

For over 60 years, people have dreaming of peace here. In 1993, when Obama joined a large law firm, the Oslo Accords were signed on the White House lawn, and peace appeared more tangible...

The US State Department Will Not Confirm That Any Promises Were Offered to Israel...

On Saturday night, Nov. 13th, 2010, as soon as the Sabbath finished in Jerusalem, The Israel Broadcasting Authority, the IBA, reported that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu convened a special session of the inner Israel...

News Analysis

The Israeli government is waiting for the US government to put in writing what Clinton told Netanyahu verbally. Israel might have to wait a long time. Yesterday, when State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was asked about...