Monthly Archives: February 2015
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...
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...
Aaron Sichel, who will rest in peace in Israel
This issue is dedicated to soul of Aaron Sichel, who succumbed to cancer in the US and will be buried on Thursday evening at the Eretz Chaim cemetery in Beit Shemesh, Israel.
Aaron spent a...
U.S. Seen in Middle East as Ally of Terrorists
Many Egyptians and moderate Arabs and Muslims were shocked to hear that the U.S. State Department recently hosted a Muslim Brotherhood delegation. They were equally shocked when an EU court decided to remove Hamas...
Let Hezbollah and Islamic State destroy one another
While the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra organization is taking over almost all the territory facing our Golan Heights, and the Islamic State is breaking into Lebanese territory from the north – and after it declared...
Obama’s Secret Iran Strategy
resident Barack Obama wishes the Islamic Republic of Iran every success. Its leaders, he explained in a recent interview, stand at a crossroads. They can choose to press ahead with their nuclear program, thereby...
Former Head of UN Gaza Human Rights Probe Reportedly Lied About PLO-Linked Conflict of...
William Schabas, the Canadian academic who this week resigned as the head of a a UN inquiry into the summer 2014 war between Israel and Hamas because of a conflict of interest involving the...