Monthly Archives: April 2019

Do Labor intend to ‘recognise’ a terrorist state?

The designation of the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a terrorist organisation would have major implications for Australia’s foreign policy and foreign aid applicable to the Middle East. It would throw into disarray a recently...

UNRWA schools continue teaching Palestinian children to wage war on Israel

Elizabeth Campbell, head of the Washington Representative Office for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) wrote a piece on April 5 in The New York Times in response to an April 2 article in the same newspaper by...

April 29, 2019: Recognition Of Israel Never Happened

Recognition of Israel never happened Regarding “PLO to discuss revoking ‘Israel recognition’” (April 22), it should be noted that the PLO never ratified the Oslo accords and never canceled the PLO charter, two steps which...

Prime Minister Netanyahu: Learn from PM Shamir – How to Respond to NYT Cartoon

The blatantly anti semitic and anti Israel cartoon which ran in the New York Times leaves one to wonder how Prime Minister Netanyahu should respond. The time has come to learn from the example of...

Fact or Fiction?

Who would have thought that a mere seventy-four years after the Holocaust, large numbers of people in many countries would either be ignorant of or disbelieve that this ever occurred? General Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (April 9– April 16, 2019)

This past week the level of violence demonstrated at the return march was again relatively low (about 7,500 people participated in the march events). However, during the march IEDs were thrown at IDF forces,...

The newest editions of the textbooks do not mention “Israel” even once; instead, the...

Elizabeth Campbell, head of the Washington Representative Office for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) wrote a piece on April 5 in The New York Times in response to an April 2...

New Legislation Proposed in the US to monitor PA/UNRWA education

A bipartisan bill has been proposed in US Congress that would require the US Secretary of state to submit annual reports reviewing the educational material used by Palestinian Authority and UNRWA schools in Palestinian...

Trump’s Mid-East Deal of the Century Must Dismantle UNRWA’s Fantasyland

Full disclosure: Neither of us has seen an advance copy of President Trump’s Middle East “Deal of the Century.” But we can be certain that for this peace plan — or any other plan...

Kushner convinced Trump to drop Palestinian refugee issue from agenda

A campaign by White House adviser and U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as a way of ridding Palestinian Arabs of refugee status...