Monthly Archives: December 2016

The Palestinian Authority sufferers from a critical democratic deficit, having failed to hold elections since 2006. President Mahmoud Abbas’s term as president expired in January 2009, yet, he has remained in office to this...

Israel leader MK Sharren Haskel (Member of Knesset) joins InterMountain Christian News and Christian Newspaper Association news reporter Dr. Anthony Harper Wednesday December 21, 2016 at the Knesset in Jerusalem to talk about United Nation efforts...

‘Tis the season of ill will again when irrational urges to condemn and threaten Israel as well as promoting pie in the sky resolutions are all the rage. We can expect the usual crop of...

Critics of the Jewish state cannot bear the fact that it is a beacon of western values in a sea of tyranny and despotism How do you know if someone’s an antisemite? They don’t all...

Right after World War II, the US and its allies wanted to prevent a repetition of the practice of the Axis powers who evicted the populations from the areas that came under their control...

The word for “invasion” in Arabic is “hijra” (هجرة and هِجْرَة ), “conquest by migration”. One of the two ways of JIHAD is to conquer lands of  infidels, known as the Abode of War (Dar al-Harb,...

Former Republican Congressman  Ben Gilman died this week at the age of 94. It is time to recall Mr. Gilman's great moment in Congress, when he stood up to pressure from the PLO, State Department...

                      UNRWA UNHCR Number of refugees currently served 4.681 million 15.4 million   (Plus 800,000 awaiting refugee status and 12 million stateless people w/o refugee status.  Number does not account for Arab Spring population upheavals.)   Budget $  1.003.7 billion USD $3.32 billion...

Our agency has received and perused a declassified Israeli intelligence report on the 7th Fatah Movement conference held in Ramallah between November 29 and December 4, 2016. Fatah continues to be defined as Israel's peace...

Barry Shaw, Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.  Attempts to achieve peace through inaction are bound to fail. Just ask the people of Aleppo. Attempts to achieve peace through appeasement are...