Monthly Archives: August 2015

Since 1948, both the Palestine Arab refugee problem and the United Nations Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Arab Refugees (UNRWA) have been studied comprehensively. Almost since its inception, UNRWA, the international agency charged with...

The official announcement that Jonathan Pollard will be paroled as of Nov. 21, having served 30 years for transmitting classified American documents to the Israeli government, is a welcome — if much-belated — development....

Just when you think you have heard it all, another revelation pops up to prove that in fact the worms are still crawling out of the Vienna can. First of all it is important to...

Arab affairs expert Bassem Eid joins VOI's Josh Hasten to provide in-depth analysis of many issues affecting the Palestinians. First, in relation to last week’s attack in Duma, which left an 18-month-old Palestinian baby dead, Bassem says that the support...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) officials met in the Gaza Strip on Thursday to discuss recent developments in the process of maintaining and implementing a...

Qatar's Foreign Minister Khalid Al-Attiyah has criticized Iran for continuing to support Bashar Assad's regime in Syria. More work must be done to build confidence on both sides, including on the issue of “interfering in...

Condemnation and Condolence by the UN Secretary General — Genuine or Politically Biased? Amb. Alan Baker, August 6, 2015 Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 15, No. 24 August 5, 2015 Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family...

for every hour someone is in administrative detention with the minimum wage for a 5 day a week worker (NIS 1,073 today) paid weekly and the rest of the payment paid to the detainee if he...

July 27-29, 2015 Clip No. 5025 For video clip: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5025.htm On July 28, Al-Mayadeen TV reported on Hamas "Vanguard of Liberation" summer camps, which provide military training to youth. According to the report, 25,000 participants trained in various camps...

August 4, 2015 “Rush to Judgment” In the early hours of last Friday morning, in the Arab village of Duma, in Samaria, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into a home, causing a fire that killed a...