Understanding UNRWA

http://www.romirowsky.com/15051/understanding-unrwa The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948.UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the recent re-approval of UNRWA's mandate for more than three years,...

Palestinian Arab Educator Bemoans the Cut-off of Funds to PA Schools

What Palestinian students are taught in the classroom and what textbooks they read have somehow become a major issue in the current debate on ways to end the cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian...

Are Israel’s Settlements Legal?

Assuming the Middle East conference actually does take place, its official task will be to achieve peace between Israel and its Levantine neighbors in accordance with Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Resolution 242,...

Palestinian Authority Textbooks: Another View

In 1999 and 2000, I conducted research on the establishment of the new Palestinian curriculum by collecting documents, textbooks, and interviewing Palestinian educators. Since that time, I have continued the research by continuing to...

Frontpage Interview’s guest: Arlene Kushner, Author of New Book: “Disclosed: Inside the Palestinian Authority...

The book can be ordered from this site. FP: Ms. Kushner, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Kushner: Thank you, it's a pleasure to participate. FP: In Disclosed, you explore the inner workings of the Palestine Liberation Organization and...

A Security Error of Historical Magnitude

Strategic Assessment Volume 7, No. 3, December 2004 Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University The Aims of the Disengagement Plan On April 18, 2004, the Israeli government issued a general outline of its proposed unilateral disengagement...

UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?

Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....

US Security Think Tank: Reject Olmert’s Unilateral Retreat Policy

A U.S. security think-tank has urged President George Bush to reject an Israeli government plan for a unilateral withdrawal from 90 percent of the West Bank. The report by the Washington-based Center for Security Policy,...

David Bedein’s coverage of Israel for the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, August-October, 2006

10/24/06 Seven Armed Palestinian Terrorists Killed In Gaza The IDF fire resulted in the death of Atta Fuad Shanbari, the commander of the Popular Resistance Committees in the northern Gaza Strip, and six others. Israeli...

Inside the Palestinian Refugee war in the UNRWA camps in Lebanon

In the last several days world attention has been drawn to the Nahr al Bared UNRWA refugee camp in northern Lebanon, where Lebanese Armed Forces have entered and are doing battle in order to...