Monthly Archives: May 2014

Presentation by David Bedein, May 2014, in Washington and London Ten Talking Points; 1. This week, the Israeli government made history, when Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Proser - addressed a symposium at the UN...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303749904579577892072979908 In preparation for the pope's visit this weekend, a man cleans a church courtyard in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Thursday. Zuma Press. BETHLEHEM, West Bank-At the Church of the Nativity, triumphal banners...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/another-puff-moment-writes-michael-kuttner/42656#more-42656 Since John Kerry. otherwise known as puff the magic dragon, popularized this descriptive expression, there have been many occasions on which it could usefully be applied. For example, in 1967 following the shelling of Jerusalem...

http://nypost.com/2014/05/22/what-pope-francis-can-do-for-mideast-peace/ As Pope Francis sets off for his visit to Israel, Jordan and Palestine, his aims are clearly humanitarian, but he risks falling into the pitfalls of the political. According to the Pope’s itinerary, after Jordan,...

When the Pope visits UNRWA Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlejem, he will see murals on the walls of a UN facility that glorify homicide killers who died in the act of murder. These...

A number of faculty at Ben Gurion University have traveled abroad, lending their voices to the growing campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Others helped to make the same case in writings and...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6993 In an address to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington on May 1, 2014, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, spoke at length about a number of subjects on...

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140517/DEFREG04/305170025/Israel-Balks-German-Ship-Deal-Readies-International-Bid TEL AVIV - Israel is backing away from a long-anticipated ship deal with Germany after failing to secure Berlin’s commitment to share some of the costs of the estimated $500 million buy. Instead, defense and...

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=698343 GAZA CITY (AFP) -- A new Palestinian "consensus government" to be named by the PLO and Hamas is to be finalized within days, a senior official in the Islamist movement said Sunday. Bassem Naim, an...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/18/netanyahu-blames-unceasing-incitement-for-record-level-of-anti-semitism-among-palestinians/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday cited the Palestinian Authority’s “unceasing incitement” against the Jewish State and the Jewish People as the reason its people display the highest level of anti-Semitism among adults...