Israeli Intelligence Think Tank Attacks UK for Providing Sanctuary to Hamas

Just a short time after outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair assumed the role of Middle East envoy, The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Herzelia, Israel,, www.intelligence.org.il, considered the "public face of Israeli...

Ehud Barak, Draft Dodging and Ehud Olmert’s sons

Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made an unusual policy statement, ordering the Israel's military establishment was going to "take steps to reduce the level draft-dodging" amongst healthy young men of draft age...

Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner, Augu. 5th-10th, 2007

Posting: August 10, 2007 "Our IDF" I want to return here to the issue of soldiers who refused to participate in evicting Hevron residents from the marketplace, Mitzpe Shalhevet. The story as it was widely presented, was...

Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner

Posting: August 2, 2007 "Hot Air" It's hot air, all right. Foul hot air, but air none the less. Consider all of the following: Abbas, who cannot get his act together and couldn't run a nation if...

Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner

Posting: July 27, 2007 "Courage" Their names were Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar and Yaakov Weiss, and their memories stand as a blessing. In yesterday's Post, Yehuda Avner told their story: It was 1947. As the days of...

Proposed Palestinian State – US Asset or Liability?

1. THE NATURE OF THE PROPOSED PALESTINIAN STATE, AND ITS IMPACT ON REGIONAL STABILITY, TERRORISM AND AMERICAN INTERESTS AND VALUES are attested by the raging Palestinian civil war and by the track record of...

U.S. intends to donate $40 million to UNRWA’s emergency appeal

Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, today met with U.S. Consul General Jacob Walles to discuss the United States' intent to contribute $40 million to UNRWA's...

The Risks to Regional Security from International Forces in Gaza

Jerusalem Issue Brief Institute for Contemporary Affairs founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 7, No. 5 24 June 2007 * With the total collapse of Fatah in...

B’tselem Projects Tendentious and Unsubstantiated Image of Israel

A leading Israeli-initiated but foreign-funded "human rights" organization -- published a report which claimed that 50% of Palestinian detained by the Israeli security officials were tortured. This internationally publicized report relied heavily on "eyewitness...

Iranian Sponsorship of Fatah

As the Palestinian internecine violence in Gaza becomes increasingly severe, alarm in Israel and the US about what is going to happen there grows apace. The prevailing wisdom, promoted for some time now, is...