“No Arab military west of the Jordan River” Fact or Fiction?
Though the dimensions of the evolving Palestinian state have not yet been decided upon, one thing is almost certain: Palestine will be the Arab neighbor with which Israel shares the longest border. Furthermore, Palestinian...
Interview with Egyptian Acting Ambassador to Israel
When they say that the war in our region is bad for tourism, they don't mean the Intifada's negative effect on India. And still, for over a year, there are some officials in the...
Recipe for Terror: A Text Analysis of the Palestinian State Constitution
I. Introduction
A. Why a Palestinian State Constitution
More than anything else, the Palestinian State Constitution represents the attempt to present to the world the face of a modern Palestinian state. The constitution is meant to...
Think Tank: Iran’s Military Capability Second Only to Israel in the Middle East
The London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies has determined that Iran has been deemed the second most powerful country in the Middle East.
This institute has determined that even without nuclear weapons, Iran could defeat...
Insight Behind the News in Israel
Posting: August 8, 2007
"Tisha B'Av"
Immediately upon the close of Shabbat tomorrow night begins Tisha B'Av (the ninth of the month of Av), a day of Jewish national mourning because it is the day on...
Hate Radio: The long, toxic afterlife of Nazi propaganda in the Arab world
http://chronicle.com/article/Hate-Radio-Nazi-Propaganda-in/49199/
Between 1939 and 1945, shortwave radio transmitters near Berlin broadcast
Nazi propaganda in many languages around the world, including Arabic
throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and Persian programs in Iran.
English-language transcripts of the...
Candian MP Prof. Irwin Cotler Spearheads Campaign for International Sanctions on Iran
This past Wednesday, December 30, 2009, Professor Irwin Cotler, a member of the Canadian parliament and former Canadian minister of justice and Canadian Attorney General, conducted a press briefing at the King David Hotel...
New Revelations About the UN Goldstone Report that Seriously Undermine its Credibility
http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=0&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=1857&IID=3377&TTL=New_Revelations_About_the_UN_Goldstone_Report_that_Seriously_Undermine_its_Credibility
Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers was one of the four members of the UN Fact Finding Mission that produced what is widely called the Goldstone Report. The Mission investigated Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza...
What’s Really Happening in Gaza; What’s Really Not Happening in the West Bank
http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/06/bit-more-on-gaza-strip-diplomacy
Elsewhere, I have explained in great detail the changes in Israeli policy as well as the implications of Western policy in the Gaza Strip: economic normalization meaning also normalization of the existence of a...
Reports which distort Israeli reality…About Israel’s “Peace Partners”
1 Fatah's Intentions..
The standard reports in the media portray Machmud Abbas and the Fatah as peace partners for Israel in the current middle east negotiations.
Rarely do we find any news reports which quote a...