Monthly Archives: August 2017
Who Are the Palestinians?
Vol. 17, No. 21
Palestinian leaders claim that the Palestinians are descended from the Canaanite people who lived in the Land of Canaan before the Israelite tribes settled in it.
What is the source...
Don’t Dismantle UNRWA; Reform Its Policies
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The desire of Prime Minister Netanyahu to dismantle UNRWA, while understandable in light of the agency’s egregious history of collusion with Hamas, is not a practical proposition. Israel can, however, demand that...
Boycott Calls Against Israel
Editorial Note
In a recent Facebook post, Steven Salaita shared his plans for leaving the academe. "My immediate plan is to write and give talks," he wrote. "Despite applying to positions on four continents, I was...
The Palestinian Trojan Horse and Jewish Institutions
Jewish news media was all atwitter with a news report about Camp Solomon Schecter in Washington state, a more than 60 year-old Jewish educational day camp, that states on its website that “Jewish camp...
“Thou Shalt Never Change… Thou Shalt Change”: The absence of deep understanding about the...
1. On both sides of the Atlantic, the intelligence bodies, especially those in charge of research and analysis, have been experiencing a profound crisis in recent decades. This is a crisis rooted in questions of...
Main events of the week
This week, there were no significant changes on the ground in Syria and Iraq.
• Syria – the campaign for the takeover of Al-Raqqah is still bogged down, in light of the
persistent fighting by ISIS...
It’s Illegal to enter Bethlehem!?
sraelis are forbidden to enter this Arab area. And these signs are all over JUDEA and SAMARIA. Where is the outrage??
Casey Babb: Canadian tax dollars shouldn’t subsidize Palestinian terrorists
On July 21, a Palestinian terrorist entered the home of a Jewish family in the West Bank settlement of Halamish and killed Yosef Salomon, 70, his daughter Chaya, 46, and son Elad, 36. As...
The Decline of the Palestinian National Movement
Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, who have intimately involved with the PLO negotiations team for more than a decade, have written a devastating piece in the New Yorker, entitled The Decline of the...
Jordan’s Shameful Record
Jordan's foreign minister blames the "occupation" for the Temple Mount terror, and threatens even more dangerous crises.
As recently as the mid-20th century, when Arabs last controlled parts of Jerusalem, they exhibited no respect for...