Monthly Archives: July 2015

Western Scandals in the Middle East

The result of this UN report -- and all the previous reports -- only perpetuates the Palestinian problem. All the UN agencies condemn Israel, but no one ever helps the Palestinians. It is scandal...

Perfect Storm: The Implications of Middle East Chaos

This study is available also in Hebrew and Arabic. In this major monograph, Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror studies the storms convulsing the Arab Middle East. He looks at the long-term implications of Middle East...

You better believe it…writes Michael Kuttner

Often, there are news items or events which sound so outlandish and bizarre that one tends to dismiss them as figments of imagination. However when it comes to Israel and Jews, no matter how farfetched...

Disconnecting

At the beginning of June the CEO of French mobile provider, Orange, stated in Cairo that if he could get out of his company’s mobile business in Israel he would do so as quickly...
The Azadi Tower in Tehran, Iran's capital city

Trusting Iran to stop terrorism is like inviting an arsonist to join the fire...

Iran remains one of the world's most prolific sponsors of terrorism. How can we expect it to stop once they have a nuclear deal? Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has written an op-ed in the...

What the UN report on Gaza left out

Two pages of the United Nations Human Rights Council's recently released report on the 2014 Gaza conflict tell just about the whole story. The report, the work of the Human Rights Council's Independent Commission...

Gaza War one year on: ‘The world does not understand the dimensions of Israel’s...

Wednesday 8 July marks one year since the beginning of the war in Gaza, which claimed 2,200 Palestinian and 73 Israeli lives. On two sides of the fence that separates Israelis from Palestinians, two...

The Disproportionate Defenses of Israel and the Palestinian Authority

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) produced a report in the spring of 2015 about the war between Israel and the Palestinians in the summer of 2014. The UNHRC continued with a debate...

‘UNRWA, Hamas are two sides of the same coin’

Hamas maintains a tight grip on the U.N. Relief and Works Agency's facilities in the Gaza Strip, and the two's symbiosis is growing stronger, despite the U.N.'s denials • Israel is reluctant to have...