Daily Archives: March 19, 2015
Israeli Correspondent Offers In-Depth Analysis Of Election
UPDATE: At 10 PM local time tonight, the three major Israeli TV channels published their exit polls. Channel 1 and Channel 10 exit polls showed Zionist Union and Likud tied at 27 seats. Channel...
White House: It is wrong to encourage non-Arab Israelis to vote to offset foreign...
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Let's get this straight: The Likud Party didn't
encourage its members to try to interfere with Israeli Arabs as they went
about participating in the Knesset elections. All the Likud Party...
Israel election: What Netanyahu’s victory means
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." That Churchillian one-liner summarizes the glorious chaos that is Israeli politics.
In the one...
Israel and the Gaza strip: Why economic sanctions are not collective punishment
Executive Summary
The economic measures that Israel uses against the Hamas proto-government in Gaza fall under legitimate uses of economic sanctions, and conform to the requirements set forth in Article 50 of the 1899 Hague...
Ask Hamas? Palestinian Group’s Twitter Campaign To Challenge ‘Terror’ Label Backfires
Hamas launched a one-week social media campaign Thursday to improve its image and refute its designation as a terror organization. But the effort hit a stumbling block on its first day when the Gaza-based...