Monthly Archives: July 2024

Balak, Bilam and A Donkey

Last Shabbat’s Torah Parsha (portion) of Balak is a stark reminder of how relevant that episode in Jewish history is for all of us today. As the Israelites reached the end of their forty-year trek...

Palestinian Factions Sign Unity Agreement at Beijing Conference

Fatah and Hamas, along with smaller Palestinian contingents, announced Tuesday that the rival groups will form a joint government in post-war Gaza after participating in Chinese-led mediation this week. The decision came after several...

Israel may face a dilemma: to be destroyed or win at a terrible cost

Till now not a single person has died of hunger in Gaza. They die in other parts of the world from Islamic genocide, in places like Sudan, Nigeria or the Congo, but nobody cares...

AP’s coverage of Netanyahu’s speech at Congress yesterday as opposed to Fox News.

While Fox News's cameras focused on the audience every time there was a thunderous standing ovation- which was about every 2 minutes of Netanyahu's speech, AP chose to focus first live on the Hamas...

‘See no tunnels, hear no tunnels, speak no tunnels’: On Human Rights Watch’s latest...

Nine months after the 7 October atrocities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published what the NGO’s leaders, PR team and allies hailed as a ‘landmark’ report detailing Hamas brutality and Israeli victims. This 245-page document consists...
14/07/2024. Ramallah. David Lammy meets Hussein al-Sheikh. Picture by Ben Dance / FCDO (CC BY 2.0)

UK Restoring Aid to UNRWA: A Flawed Decision

In what had been seen as a loud and clear message to Iran and Qatar, early this year, the United Kingdom was one of several countries to halt funding to the United Nations Relief...

Questions Concerning UK UNRWA Policy

Diane Corner Consul General for the UK 15 Ragheb Nashashibi St., Sheikh Jarrah, POB 19690, Jerusalem Your Excellency, I am writing from the Israel Resource News Agency, working out of the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, registered...

Parshat Balak: Charting the Course of Your Future

In the year 1948, David Ben Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the Jewish State in Eretz Yisrael. Yet, Ben Gurion and his peers could hardly claim full credit for this act, since as the...

COGAT: ‘UNRWA is simply trying to evade responsibility’

Major General Ghassan Alian, head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) tweeted on Monday to express harsh criticism of the head of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, who professed himself shocked by...