Monthly Archives: October 2016

We Need to Talk About Israel

Why do we insist on telling the story of Israel using 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, the First Lebanon War, the First Intifada, the Second Intifada, and the Second Lebanon War as the central milestones?...

Israel’s Two—Equally False—Narratives

San Francisco State University’s recent report on anti-Israel students’ organized disruption of a campus event featuring Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat this year casts new light on a spreading phenomenon: pro-Palestinian activists channeling the tenor...

A final stab at resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

You’re probably familiar with the old story about the inebriated guy looking for his wallet at night under a streetlight — not because that’s where he dropped it but because what would be the...

PA intel grills Palestinians who visited settler leader’s sukkah

Three Palestinians who accepted an invitation to the sukkah of the head of a West Bank settlement were summoned by Palestinian Authority intelligence on Thursday to explain why they had visited “murderers of babies.” The...

Jewish settlers invited Palestinians over for the holidays. All went well until the guests...

EFRAT, West Bank — The gathering wasn’t exactly unprecedented. Jewish settlers and their Palestinian neighbors have met quietly before, many times. But not like this. This meeting, this was rare. The settlement of Efrat is...

Fatah congress to convene in November, says official

(David Bedein asks if this next session of the Fatah will address the issues of cancelling the Fatah charter to destroy Israel, which was never cancelled,  or the PLO ratification of the DOP from...

Weekly Commentary: Tunnel fiasco was part of larger fiasco

It's common knowledge: intelligence was clueless of what Hamas could do with the tunnels and the security cabinet had no serious discussion about the problem. A series of one liners about the tunnels in remarks at...

Hillary Clinton Tops 2015-16 Islamist Money List

Philadelphia – October 20, 2016 – The Middle East Forum’s “Islamist Money in Politics” (IMIP) project is releasing the top-ten recipients of 2015-16 campaign contributions from individuals who subscribe to the same Islamic supremacism...

Why Israelis Are Right To Oppose the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’

Dear Editor, There is a fundamental misunderstanding in one of the Forward’s articles, dated October 17 and titled, “If Israel Lets In Palestinian Refugees, Will It Lose Its Jewish Character?” The five million descendants of Arab...

Rabbi Sacks’ speech in House of Lords debate on the Middle East

The following is a video and transcript of Rabbi Sacks’ speech in a House of Lords debate on the Middle East from 13th October 2016. My Lords, allow me if I may to use this...