UN to discuss UNWRA’s definition of Palestinian refugees
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=17579
The United Nations is scheduled on Monday to discuss revisions to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The discussion will focus, among other things, on an initiative...
Gaza Rally for “Right of Return Attended by UN Official
http://www.thetower.org/0344-gaza-rally-for-right-of-return-attended-by-un-official/
Last week on “Nakba Day,” the Palestinian commemoration of the disaster that was the founding of Israel, a group of children addressed a press conference at the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in Gaza. The...
Hamas Refusing to Buy Polio, Other Vaccines – and UNRWA Doesn’t Care
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/15/hamas-refusing-to-buy-polio-other-vaccines-and-unrwa-doesnt-care/
UNRWA released a statement to several Arabic newspapers warning of a serious health crisis on the horizon in Gaza.
There is a severe shortage of vaccines in Gaza, and those for polio, the mumps, rubella,...
Netanyahu Blames ‘Unceasing Incitement’ for Record Level of Anti-Semitism Among Palestinians
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/18/netanyahu-blames-unceasing-incitement-for-record-level-of-anti-semitism-among-palestinians/
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday cited the Palestinian Authority’s “unceasing incitement” against the Jewish State and the Jewish People as the reason its people display the highest level of anti-Semitism among adults...
Israel Balks at German Ship Deal; Readies International Bid
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140517/DEFREG04/305170025/Israel-Balks-German-Ship-Deal-Readies-International-Bid
TEL AVIV - Israel is backing away from a long-anticipated ship deal with Germany after failing to secure Berlin’s commitment to share some of the costs of the estimated $500 million buy.
Instead, defense and...
Ambassador Dermer and United States-Israel Relations
http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6993
In an address to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington on May 1, 2014, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, spoke at length about a number of subjects on...
To the Ben Gurion University Board of Governors: Concerned about Israel’s image in the...
A number of faculty at Ben Gurion University have traveled abroad, lending their voices to the growing campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Others helped to make the same case in writings and...
May 15: Nakba or defeat?
http://www.arabnews.com/news/570476
A few weeks ago, many people in the Arab world heard a name, Joshua Teitelbaum, an Israeli senior fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Goldman visiting associate professor at...
Palestinian Reconciliation and the Rising Power of Hamas and Islamic Jihad: An Iranian Windfall
http://jcpa.org/article/palestinian-reconciliation-and-the-rising-power-of-hamas/
Vol. 14, No. 14 May 14, 2014
Fatah and Hamas are continuing to talk in an attempt to translate the reconciliation agreement, signed between the sides on April 23, 2014, into a series of operative...
Amnesty Researcher Admits That Palestinian ‘Eyewitnesses’ Often Lie
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/09/amnesty-researcher-admits-that-palestinian-eyewitnesses-often-lie/
Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty field investigator, wrote an interesting article about the challenges of fact finding in war situations.
One of her main points is that eyewitnesses are often unreliable. For example:
In Gaza, Lebanon, Libya,...