Monthly Archives: February 2017

The Yesha Council: Adherent to the Peace Now Strategy to Isolate the “​settler minority”​

In 1993, those who promoted the Oslo process portrayed the opposition to "land for peace" as a "​settler minority​" locked in to their ideology and their real estate. This "settler isolation" approach was best elucidated...

Selective outrage…writes Michael Kuttner

This week has seen a dazzling outburst of self-righteous outrage by all and sundry against Israel. The common denominator is a knee jerk allergic reaction to anything the Jewish State may have done or is...

Who is responsible for the tragedy surrounding Amona?

The intolerable behavior of the hoodlums who took over the Amona synagogue and viciously attacked the police tended to obscure the tragedy of the 42 families who were uprooted from their homes. They had...

David Bedein on JBS TV on Feb 11 discusses UNRWA antisemitism

JBS TV and ISGAP Presents UNRWA & Palestinian Antisemitism Featuring David Bedein Director, Israel Resource New Agency, Center for Near East Policy Research Click here to watch online Tuesday Evening, February 7 8:00 PM EST and 1:00 AM EST Thursday, February 9 2:00 PM EST Saturday,...

Does UNRWA have the legal right to define descendants as refugees?

The entire reason that UNRWA has different definitions of "refugee" than the rest of the world is because UNRWA existed for a year before the UN Refugee Convention was drafted, and the Refugee Convention...

Trump and the UNRWA farce

After President Obama greased the wheels for the UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's settlements policy, then President-elect Trump tweeted that "things will be different after January 20th." I didn't vote for Trump, but...

Women and Jihad: Increased Palestinian incitement leads to more female terrorism from the Second...

In the period leading up to the terror attack in the Adam community that was implemented by a Palestinian woman, increased Palestinian incitement encouraging female terrorism was documented. In a panel titled “Palestinian Incitement:...

Knesset to take action against incitement in Arab schools

Chairman of the Knesset Education Committee, MK Yaakov Margi, issued a directive to the Education Ministry and the Jerusalem Department of Education, requiring them to provide precise documentation of the supervision and enforcement procedures...

Hearing of Committee on Foreign Affairs

February 2, 2017 Dear Members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Thank you for affording me this opportunity to share my thoughts with this esteemed committee. This past year I was invited by friends involved in NORPAC...

Not Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood Carries Risk

In a January 26 Wall Street Journal article titled "Blacklisting Muslim Brotherhood Carries Risk," Yaroslav Trofimov writes that the Trump administration's proposed designation of the Brotherhood as a terrorist group "could trigger a slew...