The Levy Report: Reinvigorating the Discussion of Israel’s Rights in the West Bank

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...

WJC ANALYSIS – Is the war in Syria undermining the Palestinian claim to the...

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12161/wjc_analysis_is_the_war_in_syria_undermining_the_palestinian_claim_to_the_right_of_return _ The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which...

UNRWA & the Right of Return

http://www.romirowsky.com/12055/unrwa-the-right-of-return Chair: Good evening everyone. I am Louise Ellman MP, and on behalf of the Henry Jackson Society, I would like to welcome you to this meeting here in the House of Commons. I would...

Bypassing the Suez Canal: Israel to Have China Construct The Eilat Railway

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2692&sec=1&title=Bypassing_the_Suez_Canal:_Israel_to_Have_China_Construct_The_Eilat_Railway The biggest piece of news that emerged from Israel this past week (July 3) is one you may have heard nothing about--but it is a game changer in terms of elevating Israel's economic/strategic position...

Mordechai Kedar: The Arab World on the Precipice

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/mordechai-kedar-the-arab-world-on-the-precipice/2012/07/30/0/ Although I do not generally do so, I will open with an Arabic joke, because in the Arab world (and perhaps in other places as well) people often use humor to speak the truth...

Challenging an obituary to PM Shamir: Letterto the Editor, Translated from Dutch to English

NRC AH Letters Editor Amsterdam, 03.07.2012 Dear Sir, The obituary of your Israel correspondent, Leonie van Nierop, re Yitzchak Shamir is quite biased. It was mentioned in this obituary as though the reliability of Israel’s Arabs adversaries is rather...

Syrian nightmare for Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4260723,00.html Intelligence information collected and analyzed by the CIA shows that Israel has many causes for concern about the day after Assad. It turns out that there is a fundamental gap between what the White...

Israel’s Settlers Are Here to Stay

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/opinion/israels-settlers-are-here-to-stay.html?_r=4 WHATEVER word you use to describe Israel’s 1967 acquisition of Judea and Samaria - commonly referred to as the West Bank in these pages - will not change the historical facts. Arabs called for...

Posek HaDor: HaRav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv z”l, who died on July 18, 2012

Harav Elyashiv (referred to in this article as: HaRav) was born 102 years ago on Rosh Chodesh Nissan in the village of Shavik, in Lithuania. His father was the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Elyashiv, the son-in-law...

Files Reveal Neo-Nazis Helped Palestinian Terrorists

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/files-show-neo-nazis-helped-palestinian-terrorists-in-munich-1972-massacre-a-839467.html The men who were arrested in the Munich house of former Waffen-SS member Charles Jochheim late on Oct. 27, 1972 were armed like soldiers on their way to the front. In one suitcase,...