Monthly Archives: July 2017

Israel and U.S. Jews: The View From Jerusalem

To the Editor: Re “Israel to U.S. Jews: You Just Don’t Matter” (column, July 12): Thomas L. Friedman claims that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has burned bridges with American Jews. Never mind that he just ordered...

What Really Matters in the Middle East

The fight against the Islamic State appears to be going well. On July 9, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory in Mosul after the city was finally retaken. The same day, the United...

Israel’s sanitized report of Netanyahu-Abbas conversation makes Abbas look better

A comparison of the official Palestinian and official Israeli reports of the Netanyahu-Abbas conversation finds that the sanitized report issued by Israel puts Abbas in a far more favorable light than he deserves. As the...

Fake News and No News…writes Michael Kuttner

It is very rare for the international media to have no news about Israel. Likewise our local media hardly misses an opportunity to inform us about developments here in Israel. The Maccabiah is an interesting...

Senate panel weighs bill to cut U.S. funding to Palestinians over payments to terrorists

With momentum growing in Congress to support legislation that could cut U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to convicted terrorists and their families, a senior White House official told Fox News...

How to Depoliticize Palestinian Refugee Status

In a bold reversal of longstanding Israeli policy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called for dismantling the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and rolling its functions into the United Nations High Commission on Refugees...

UN: Terrorism from Palestinians against Israelis will be rewarded – again

Even by U.N. standards, last week’s vote at UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow, Poland, was diplomatic theater at its most absurd. With civil war, ethnic and religious cleansing and ISIS terrorism blowing Muslim and Christian sites to...

U.N. Schools of “JIHADI TERROR” WorldWide”

Where do YOUR tax dollars go? PROOF! U.N. Schools teach Jihadi TERROR WorldWide!

Información del Centro Nahum Bedein para la Investigación de Políticas del Cercano Oriente

Misión El Centro Nahum Bedein para la Investigación de Políticas del Cercano Oriente descubre hechos que no están presentados en la cobertura de las noticias principales sobre el Estado de Israel, prestando atención especial a...

Shalom-Namaste: Israel and India’s not-so-secret friendship

Modi’s visit is a way to appreciate old gestures and build on them. It was time the world saw the hugs and the handshakes. In Netanyahu’s words, “swagat hai,” welcome, to this new era. Much...