International Recognition of a Unilaterally Declared Palestinian State: Legal and Policy Dilemmas

http://www.jcpa.org/art/becker2.htm Representatives of the PLO, and of the Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority established pursuant to the Interim Agreement, have repeatedly threatened to unilaterally declare an independent Palestinian state.1 Indeed, following the conclusion of the Camp...

Ofer Cassif’s Objection to the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Adopted by Israel

After a long delay, the Israeli Knesset adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. As IAM reported, the Working Definition was initiated in 2005 and officially adopted by the IHRA planetary session in 2016. The document...

Making the Palestine Authority More Palatable for the Israeli Public to Swallow

On June 3, 1998, the US state department removed the PLO from the list of terrorist organizations. There was no response from the Israeli government. Indeed, Israel state radio reported the item only twice,...

Palestinian news agency more even handed than BTselem? Report on incident cites Israeli explanation...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57648 "When the commander of the force arrived at the scene he was brutally attacked by one of the Palestinians, an incident which doesn't appear in the video," the military said in a statement. Video: Israeli...

Fighting the Effort to Demand that Israel Free Murderers

The international community, concerned with strengthening the position of Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen, is urging Israel to release Palestinians who have murdered Israelis. There is something terribly out of balance here. Both a lack...

Commentary from Arlene Kushner

Posting: September 12, 2007 "There it is!" Olmert and company exposed with their intentions out front for all to see. We are not to "play into the hands of Hamas" by going into Gaza, you see. As...

Continues Anti-US Incitement

JERUSALEM, June 4 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday the indefinite postponement of the Palestinian legislative elections in what was widely seen as a political maneuver designed to help Abbas's faltering Fatah movement reorganize against...

A Lesson in Politics : The Integrity of Ben Gurion Unversity is on the...

Ben Gurion University is in stress. The recent reports published by the “Im Tirtzu” student movement about the Post-Zionist political control dominating important parts of the university have had their effect and impact. They have managed to...

Out of the mouths of fools…writes Michael Kuttner

This week has witnessed a veritable army of fools articulating everything from baseless hatred to recycled lies. While nothing new as far as this phenomenon is concerned, the spouting of irrational nonsense was given a...

Former Israeli Defence Minister Proposes To Free Fatah Secretary Marwan Barghouti

A senior Israeli cabinet minister and former Israeli minister of defense, Binyamin Ben Eliezer, has proposed that the jailed Fatah secretary Gen. Marwan Barghouti, be released from an Israeli prison in exchange for kidnapped...