The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords

Published January 2011 http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=5603&TTL=The_Settlements_Issue:_Distorting_the_Geneva_Convention_and_the_Oslo_Accords Vol. 10, No. 20 5 January 2011 Alan Baker Palestinian representatives at the UN have prepared a draft resolution that will seek to declare that Israeli settlements are "illegal and constitute a major obstacle...

Weekly Commentary: JCPA poll shows Israelis do not think pigs can fly

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59472 Date: 20 December 2012 Typical polls of the Israeli public ask respondents if they would be willing to make concession "x" in exchange for peace. The problem is, of course, that concession "x" isn't in exchange...

Why the IDF Chief of Staff was Fired

It took barely an hour following the start of this week's Knesset (Israel's parliament)Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting to figure out that its guest speaker, Israel Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, had quickly become...

Cover Story

Where Will They Go? Palestinian refugees say international law guarantees them a right of return to their homelands. But the law has no teeth, and the refugees fear they have no champion. Near a checkpoint...

Anarchy Surrounds Israel

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309944/anarchy-surrounds-israel-daniel-pipes Of Israel’s neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the first 20 years, 1948-68, this did not present difficulties to Israel; only when the Palestinians created a...

Commentary: “Test the intentions of Israel’s neighbors.” – An insult to our intelligence

Edward Djerejian, a key advisor to Baker on his study, told the Jerusalem Post today that there is no intention to force Israel into concessions. Rather, the desire is to "test the intentions of...

The Fatah Charter: Intentions vs. Words

Arlene Kushner is the senior research analyst for the Center for Near East Policy Research in Jerusalem, and author of a daily blog, "Arlene From Israel," www.arlenefromisrael.info. On January 27, 2010, the Jewish Telegraph Agency...

Israel Prepares for Trouble

Israel radio on Monday, July 13, reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly with seven cabinet ministers for the third time on Sunday, to develop a "strategic policy" for dealing with the...

News Stories Inside the Palestinian Authority Not Reported Elsewhere: Accountability and the PLO

PLO representative in Washington, Hassan Abdul Rahman has kept millions of dollars for Palestinian students from abroad. He spent money to buy huge homes in the Washington area. He has a Cadillac, beautiful clothes....

Preventing a Terror State

The Bush administration and the Olmert government have determined that - in order to serve their perceived goals in the Middle East - a Fatah-led Palestinian state should be established in Judea and Samaria....