The Chinese Initiative on Syria: Beyond the Immediate Crisis
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=10555
On October 31, 2012, China deviated from its traditional posture of shunning involvement in Middle East politics, and announced a four-step program to resolve the crisis in Syria. The initiative, however, does not include...
The Palestinian Conflict with Israel is Not the Core of the Middle East Conflict
http://www.jinsa.org/fellowship-program/evelyn-gordon/palestinian-conflict-israel-not-core-middle-east-conflict#.UKHaubJmTpw
As Syria's civil war drags on, it is increasingly destabilizing its neighbors. First, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured over their borders; now, violence has as well. Turkey and Syria have repeatedly exchanged deadly...
Fill your sandbags
I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama's re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” - as Deputy Prime...
Israel and U.S. on a Collision Course?
Some 57 percent of Israeli Jews preferred Romney, only 22% Obama (in my sector of American Israelis it was even more lopsided, a full 85% having cast absentee ballots for the challenger, only...
Where Would Hezbollah Be Without the EU?
The EU has been here before. During the same period they came up with their false wall-of-separation within Hezbollah, they they did the same thing with Hamas. The fiction disappeared in Europe because it...
The Legal Basis of Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58871
The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of GazaProf. Ruth Lapidoth, July 18, 2010
Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 10, No. 4
http://jcpa.org/article/the-legal-basis-of-israel%E2%80%99s-naval-blockade-of-gaza/
-The relations between Israel and Hamas are in the nature of armed conflict. Nowadays no...
Anti-Semitism in Newton (MA) Schools
Below is my account of the developing scandal at the Newton public schools. For months a group of Jewish parents and community members has asked the school board for copies of the curriculum, texts...
Into the Fray: Obama, Islam and Israel
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=290199
Photo: Yuri Gripas / Reuters
There is much that binds the US and Israel together. Nonetheless, both political prudence and past experience suggest that the Israeli leadership should not disregard the prospect that the congruence...
Election Letter to my American Friends
Sherwin@atid-edi.com
Sherwin Pomerantz, a 29 year resident of Israel. is President of Atid-EDI Ltd., a Jerusalem-based economic development consulting firm and a former National President of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel
My fellow...
Refugee Lawyer David Matas: UNWRA, Palestinian and Jewish Refugees :There are No International Instruments...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2899&sec=1&title=Refugee_Lawyer_David_Matas:_UNWRA,_Palestinian__and_Jewish_Refugees_:There_are_No_International_Instruments_which_Give_Palestinians_A_Right_of_Return
(The following is an excerpt of Remarks prepared for a delivery to a conference on Justice for Jews from Arab countries, Jerusalem, Israel, 10 September 2012)
There is a troubling pattern of claimed Palestinian rights...