Palestinian Authority Radio sermon broadcast from Al Aqsa Mosque on November 23rd

No message to the Palestinian people is more genuine than the message delivered in the Arabic language on the official Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, the PBC, which operates out of the Ramallah headquarters of Palestinian...

B’tselem spokesman admits that the report in “incomplete”

On October 25, 2001, the 5:00 p.m. Voice of Israel Radio Newsreel announced that the Israel research group Btzelem, financed by the New Israel Fund and European governments through the European Union, has issued...

Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace, Volume I, II and...

Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Shai-Ben-Tekoa/e/B00H479XCI Reviewed by Samantha Allie, Analyst, Center for Near East Policy Research, and David Bedein, Center director. This three volume work, written by Middle East scholar Shai Ben Tekoa, provides a unique opportunity for...

Confession of an Israeli analyst of Islam and Arab statecraft: I believe Arafat

On May 15, 2002, Yasir Arafat addressed the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramalla. The occasion was the 54th anniversary of the Nakba ("the disaster" of Palestine, i.e. the establishment of the State of Israel...

Abbas’ fictional state

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=8151 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has heard about the latest videotape by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in which Zawahri calls Abbas a "traitor who is selling out Palestine," and has gotten cold feet. But even...

The Truth About Settlement Growth

On Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predictably assailed Israel’s announced decision to build 800 new apartments in Ma’aleh Adumim and eastern Jerusalem. He noted that just four days earlier, the Middle East Quartet (i.e....

December 28, 2010: The Jordan Valley

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) From multiple sources I am picking up considerable concern regarding the broad implications -- diplomatic and security -- with regard to any relinquishment by Israel of full control of the Jordan...

PLO Security Chief Mohammad Dahlan Interviewed: “Most of the People in Israel Want War”

Just a few weeks after Ma'ariv published my colleague Ben Caspit's exclusive story about Arafat's instructions to kill settlers, the Arabic translation of the story was placed on the desk of Mohammed Dahlan, commander...

A New Palestinian Lie About Israel and The Need to Discount Such Stories Systematically

What happens when the New York Times publishes, with no investigation, an atrocity story about Israel that is not only false but ridiculously so, based on the most obvious starting point: death by tear-gas...

A Dispassionate View of The Sharon Plan: From Disengagement to Retreat

The Sharon Plan will be voted on in an unprecedented referendum which will take place among the 200,00 members of the Likud Party in Israel this coming Sunday. This is not just an internal party...