Are Settlements Really the Major Obstacle to Peace?
For nearly two decades, the Palestinian Authority conducted peace talks with
Israel while construction in the Jewish settlements was continuing. Every
now and then the Palestinian leadership would complain about the
construction, but it never made a...
News Analysis: “Playing the Game”
A article yesterday (written by Sheera Frankel in the Miami Herald) said:
"The Obama administration has secured pledges from senior Mideast leaders to continue peace negotiations until after next month's U.S. midterm elections, largely to...
CANADA’S MINISTER PETER KENT PROTESTED TO PA FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT PA INCITEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=468&sec=1&title=CANADA’S__MINISTER_PETER__KENT__PROTESTED_TO_PA_FOREIGN_MINISTER_ABOUT__PA_INCITEMENT_AGAINST_ISRAEL
Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas)
Photo by Rhonda Spivak.
Rhonda Spivak went to Deheishe Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem on August 11, 2010 and photographed this mural of a female suicide bomber...
Incisive Middle East News Analysis
"Anti-Semitism Today"
Dr. Simcha Epstein made a presentation in the on-going series on post Holocaust Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Institute for Global Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Dr. Epstein, an author, teaches at...
News Analysis
One gets the feeling that if he could -- without losing his coalition -- Netanyahu would: cave on extending the freeze, that is. And so, it is the strength of those coalition members we...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire: NOT A PEACEFUL WOMAN
We must not mistake her: The Nobel peace prize laureate is no “peace activist.” She identifies in absolute terms with Hamas, despite the fact that she knows that it is an anti-Semitic organization that...
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT LEVIN AND THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY OF YALE UNIVERSITY
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=425&sec=1
The signatories of this letter participated in a conference on "Global Antisemitism, a Crisis of Modernity" that was held at Yale University from August 23 to the 25th, 2010, and organized by the Yale...
The Complacency and Complicity of America’s Jews
Recently, I had a conversation with an Israeli cousin who asserted that all the world's Jews should live in Israel. Recognizing that there is no other place in the world in which Jews are...
A critical new text for understanding the Middle East: “The Sources of Iranian negotiating...
There are basically two ways to approach the Middle East:
* Option 1: Understand what makes Farsi- and Arabic-speaking, Muslim-majority societies different from the West given their history, experiences, culture, politics, and other features.
* Option...
These Talks Are Doomed
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area.
Mona Charen received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, with honors.... read more Mona Charen also holds a...