Monthly Archives: May 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTxymPowUBw Talk at the OU Israel Center.

Anyone who has shopped at or toured around the famous Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, commonly known as the “shuk”, will recall the cacophony of noise which accompanies the frenetic effort of shopkeepers as...

On May 15, 2019, Nakba Day events were held in the Gaza Strip with the format of the weekly return marches. About 10,000 Palestinians participated, somewhat more than the recent weekly average. Hamas operatives,...

The United States and Israel on Wednesday called for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that oversees the Palestinian refugees, to cease operations. “We need an additional $1.2 billion for our activities in 2019. We don’t believe...

https://www.jpost.com/General-Assembly/United-Nations-Security-Council-debates-UNRWA-watch-live-590383 The JPost reported in the above article on May 23, 2019 that the German representative told the UN Security Council that he wanted to know why the US was not concerned by the possibility...

The World Health Organization has lashed out against Israel because of the level of medical services that UNRWA and the Palestinian Ministry of Health maintains in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem. Our Center for Near...

In “US peace plan’s economic section to be revealed June 25” (May 20), US Middle East envoy Jarred Kushner declares, “The Palestinian people, along with all people in the Middle East, deserve a future...

These photographs are from the Library of Congress collection. The first photograph — our title page — is a view of Jerusalem and was taken between 1860 and 1880 by Frank M. Good, according...

The Jerusalem Post of May 20, 2019 quotes US Middle East envoy Jarred Kushner as declaring that “The Palestinian people, along with all people in the Middle East, deserve a future with dignity and...

Israel Institute of New Zealand co-director, Dr David Cumin, is calling for a moratorium on any further Kiwi taxpayer funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) until serious issues of corruption,...