Daily Archives: August 1, 2011

On October 22, 2010, the outgoing director of the New York office of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Andrew Whitley, stunned his listeners at a Washington conference by arguing...

Dear friends and facebook friends of friends! I am asking you to take a moment - read my story - and consider sponsoring Pia Levine as she participates in the NY Triathlon to raise funds...

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2295/israeli-arabs-role Israeli Arabs can play a role in reviving the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Although this is an internal Israeli issue between the state and its Arab citizens, -- not an...

http://www.awrad.org/etemplate.php?id=249&x=4 I. INTRODUCTION On 4 May 2011, Fatah and Hamas announced a surprise Reconciliation Agreement in Cairo. The Agreement included articles on elections, security, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). It...

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/86476 On may 31, 2010, in defense of a naval blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, Israel seized control of the Mavi Marmara in international waters, detained the passengers, and towed the ship to the...

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Once+again+Jewish+question/5122436/story.html If money could buy peace, this would be a golden era for Middle East peacemaking. Notwithstanding activists' much-hyped "boycott, divestment and sanctions" campaign, Israel's economy is booming: Growth last year was 4.5% (despite a...

The UN agency specializing in aid to Palestinian refugees has become a chronically corrupt organization whose funds are siphoned off by terror groups, especially in Gaza, according to a new series of studies by...