Monthly Archives: November 2012

The Palestinian Guy Fawkes

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/the-palestinian-guy-fawkes/264529/ Today is Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates the plot by a group of English Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I along with it. The plot was disrupted on...

The Legal Basis of Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58871 The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of GazaProf. Ruth Lapidoth, July 18, 2010 Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 10, No. 4 http://jcpa.org/article/the-legal-basis-of-israel%E2%80%99s-naval-blockade-of-gaza/ -The relations between Israel and Hamas are in the nature of armed conflict. Nowadays no...

No Change in the Palestinian Position on the Right of Return

http://jcpa.org/article/no-change-in-the-palestinian-position-on-the-right-of-return/ Vol. 12, No. 25 5 November 2012   Claims that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas - in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Nov. 2, 2012 - had apparently relinquished the “right of return”...

Into the Fray: Obama, Islam and Israel

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=290199 Photo: Yuri Gripas / Reuters There is much that binds the US and Israel together. Nonetheless, both political prudence and past experience suggest that the Israeli leadership should not disregard the prospect that the congruence...

Front Page JPOST Magazine, writes about Sderot Media Center’s “Ambassadors of Tomorrow”

The Real Perspective A new program aims to teach residents in the south how to speak to the media and portray the experience of life and terror under constant rocket fire. *Click here to read the...

Superficiality Reigns Before the Election

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2012/11/superficiality-reigns-before-the-election It happens every four years, as U.S. presidential elections roll around: I feel like a stranger. That's because news reports blare out what's not of interest: trivial statistics (171,000 jobs added in October; jobless rate...

Following the elections, Mideast peace negotiations should resume

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3432/mideast-peace-negotiations I was invited to meet with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority just before he spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations. I came to the meeting with an agenda: to persuade...

UNRWA’s Self-serving Agenda

Since June 1967, operations in the West Bank and Gaza by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have been carried out in accordance with an explicit...

Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arlene-kushner/yes-obama-did-throw-israel-under-the-bus/ On October 23, the profoundly anti-Israel New York Times ran an op-ed by Ephraim Halevy - former head of Israel’s Mosad and national security advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon - titled “Who Threw...

Sderot Perspective of Israel’s “Gaza Policy” after Hamas Gaza regime bombardment

http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=942&q=3 Photo:Direct hit by a missile in a house In Danny's words, "After 29,000 aerial attacks in ten years, we do not see any light at the end of the tunnel". On the other hand, Danny Dahan...