Monthly Archives: October 2011

Teaching The “Right Of Return” in the UNRWA School System

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm? id=1487&sec=3&title=Teaching _ Introduction The essence of the Middle East conflict is the century-long struggle between Jews and Palestinian Arabs over one piece of land stretching between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan, which both parties regard...

Consequences Of A Palestinian Arab State

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm? id=1533&sec=3&title=Consequences_Of_A_Palestinian_Arab_State At a time when a Palestinian Arab sovereign state is so widely discussed, very few have taken the time to consider the consequences of establishing such an entity. 1. Encirclement: Will a proposed sovereign Palestine...

U.S. Moves To ‘Advise’ PA Forces

The United States has decided to change its focus in helping Palestinian Authority security forces. The administration of President Barack Obama intends to move away from equipping PA security forces. Instead, the State Department, amid...

Israeli Control of the Golan Heights: High Strategic and Moral Ground for Israel

Ever since Syria’s loss of the Golan Heights to Israel in the June 1967 Six Day War, the strategic plateau has been a matter of contention between the two states. Immediately after the war,...

The Attack on Israel’s Embassy in Cairo

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2011/09/ the-attack-on-israel-embassy-in-cairo Western diplomats and journalists fell for Stalin's show trials but eventually learned not to accept developments in the Soviet Union at face value. In the Soviet Union's later years, a crowd assaulting a foreign...

Truth and lies at the theatre of the absurd

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/ truth-and-lies-at-the-theatre-of-the-absurd.html Some 1941 years ago, the Romans conquered the ancient Jewish kingdom of Judea by force and attempted to expunge all memory of the Jews’ claim to the land by renaming the area Palestine. Two...

Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2010

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID= 1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=8920&TTL=Terrorist_Incidents_ against_Jewish_Communities_and_Israeli_Citizens_Abroad,_1968-2010 â— The phenomenon of terrorism against Jewish communities and Israeli targets abroad represents the most violent aspect of contemporary anti-Semitism, and the greatest physical danger to Diaspora Jewish communities. The rational calculations of political...

Abbas Gives the Finger to Obama

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2454/abbas-gives-finger-to-obama By rejecting both of US President Barack Obama's requests -- to avoid a United Nations bid for Palestinian Statehood and to return to the negotiating table -- the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, is...

As war looms large, Israel is sticking its head in the sand

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/as-war-looms -large-israel-is-sticking-its-head-in-the-sand-1.383158 This week, the head of the Home Front Command, Maj. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, said what he thought to the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. "It's being called the Arab Spring,...

UNRWA schools in Gaza – a Greenhouse for Hamas

Excerpted from “Where Has All the Flour Gone: Whims and Waste of UN Palestinian Refugee Policy by: David Bedein, Paperless Publishing LLC, New York. Publication Date: Sept. 15, 2011 Al-Kutla al-Islamiya activities in UNRWA's...