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...
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...

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...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

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...