LEE KAPLAN IN ISRAEL TO ADVISE ISRAELI JURISTS ON FLOTILLA, RACHEL CORRIE CASES: Infiltrated...
Is the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) composed of non-violent peace activists or supporters of terrorism?
The answer is clear to Lee Kaplan, investigative journalist, Senior Intelligence Analyst and Communications Director for the Northeast Intelligence Network,...
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...
Western Canada names a Special Representative to Israel
Premier Greg Selinger appoints Mel Lazareck to the new position of special representative for Manitoba to Israel for economic and community relations.
Government of Manitoba
Jaqueline Freedman, Mel Lazareck and Erez Rotem
LAZARECK NAMED SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR...
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...
News Analysis:”The Other Shoe?”
The "other shoe" I'm referring to is the end result of the whole business of extending the freeze, or part of the freeze, or whatever, so that face-to-face negotiations might continue. There is the...
UNRWA as an Obstacle to Peace: THE GENETIC REFUGEE
The United Nations wants very much to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
They want that so badly, that Israel just can’t seem to get off the agenda in the subcommittees and the leaders’ speeches.
Paradoxically, UNRWA-a sub-agency...
Incisive moments on a family trip : TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT …TO CELEBRATE MY...
My extended family returned recently from a trip to Israel and Egypt to celebrate our younger son's Bar Mitzvah. We are grateful and blessed that our dream trip was realized. We marked Noah’s becoming...
NO INDICATION OF ABBAS POPULARITY IN RAMALLAH: WHERE IS THE MURAL OF ABBAS NEXT...
Mural of Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti on Wall near Ramallah, Qalandia checkpoint. All photos by Rhonda Spivak.
Mural of Yasser Arafat painted on Wall near Ramallah, qalandia checkpoint
Billboard glorifying Palestinian "martyr" with map of Israel...
Is the US Training Israel’s Enemies?
There are strong reservations about the wisdom of the US training a Palestinian security force.
Israel recently approved the delivery of Russian armored personnel carriers for the Palestinian Authority, while it continues to laud American...
Refuting David Malovsky’s Comments in the Washington Post Concerning Palestinian Authority Education
In his recent article, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082304204.html, David Makovsky writes:
“The PA has begun reshaping the curriculum of Palestinian institutions that accredit imans, and screening is also being conducted to weed out school teachers who support Hamas...