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UNRWA Policy Letter sent to all diplomats in Israel

Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2025 Subject: UNRWA Education: Responsibility of Donor Nations Dear Ambassador , The Center for Near East Policy Research, which has operated since 1952,...

The Israeli-Palestinian Impasse

Zionism and the Arabs Moshe Smilansky, a founder of Rehovot in 1890, became intimately familiar with Arabs in the country. He contended in his essay...
Steve Witkoff on the Tucker Carlson Show. (X Screenshot)

US envoy Witkoff is collaborating with Hamas

Steven Witkoff, the Trump administration’s official envoy who had past business ties to Qatar, sat down with Tucker Carlson, the former FOX News talking head turned...

What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Mahmoud Khalil and His Possible Deportation

The case of Mahmoud Khalil has been the talk of the nation’s media in recent days. Predictably, coverage has been short on context, but long...

Abbas ups his rhetoric: Israel is committing a crime of ongoing mass extermination

In a speech delivered on the occasion of International Water Day, Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas sharply criticized Israel, accusing it of being...

Government Response To Petition To Stop Dismissal of Ronen Bar

Government Response To Petition To Stop Dismissal of Ronen Bar Dr. Aaron Lerner 24 March 2024 The response includes many strong arguments, including the following (ChatGPT4 used...
L-R: Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo accords signing ceremony on the White House lawn, 1993. (Wikimedia)

Is it Time to Declare the Failure of the Oslo Accords?

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 25, No. 5 The Oslo Accords were designed to achieve lasting peace between Israel...
Likud MK Dan Ilouz (right), sitting alongside Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Heritage Meir Porush, chairs the Knesset Lobby for Closing UNRWA at the parliament in Jerusalem, Feb. 20, 2025. Credit: Knesset.tv.

UNRWA still operating in Israel despite laws barring agency

Israel’s UNRWA ban went into effect on Jan. 30 but has been only partially implemented. That worries activists and Knesset members involved in the effort to...

‘There Are No Lone Wolves’: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Dismantles the New Popular Narrative on...

Author and public intellectual Ayaan Hirsi Ali is warning about the threat that Islamist activist organizations pose to the U.S. and the broader Western...

Eli Sharabi’s full address at the United Nations

Eli Sharabi’s full address at the United Nations today. He survived 491 days of Hamas captivity in Gaza, and with remarkable resilience and strength,...