Daily Archives: February 6, 2015

Response to UK Faculty of Public Health Interim Statement Concerning The Summer 2014 ...

Palestinian health issueDr.Elihu D Richter MD MPH Ms.Tamar Pileggi Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine And Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention Table of Contents: Executive Summary Perspective The Regional Context of Operation Protective Edge The Conduct of the...

The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Gaza Conflict: A Clear Violation of All...

Vol. 15, No. 4       February 5, 2015 William Schabas, Chair of the UN Gaza Inquiry, resigned from his post this week. His glaring anti-Israel bias was demonstrated in statements made by him over...

Jihadist porn and Jordanian planes

When the video of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive in a cage appeared on the Internet on Tuesday, Jordanian King Abdullah II happened to be in Washington on a previously scheduled...

Silencing Justice: The Murder of Alberto Nisman

Alberto Nisman, the lead prosecutor who had been investigating Iran's role in the 1994 Hezbollah bombing of a Jewish center of Buenos Aires, was found dead in his bathroom, with a bullet fired into...

Don’t mention the war…writes Michael Kuttner

Do you remember the episode from Fawlty Towers where a group of German tourists was due to visit and Basil, played by John Cleese, warned his staff “don’t mention the war?” These days when political...

Israeli Arab MK: Settlements are morally superior to kibbutzim

Israeli Arab MK: Settlements are morally superior to kibbutzim "After all, what is the difference between the settlements and kibbutzim morally? Settlements are much better, as they were built next to Palestinian communities, while kibbutzim were established...

Dr. Mordechai Kedar puts IS burning of Jordanian pilot into context of Islam

Op-Ed: Hell on Earth Burning alive a human being is a method of eliminating enemies that is well known and documented in early Islamic sources, and based on a deductive legal principle of Sharia...
Palestinian journalists hold placards during a demonstration in support with reporters detained by Hamas in Gaza and to ask for their immediate release on January 27, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Threat of violence silences Palestinian journalists

How loud is the voice you hear when you sit down to write a press report? How small is the prison cell you imagine yourself ending up in once you publish your article? The...

Why Is Hamas Smiling?

In 2007, Abbas lost the Gaza Strip to Hamas. Now he seems to be losing the Gaza Strip to his rivals in Fatah. Many of his former Fatah supporters have turned against him. The last...