Gilad Shalit Release: Israel’s Joy Tempered by Memories of an Intifadeh

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2097192,00.html Israel was happy, very happy. The news of a deal to bring home the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit arrived with the holiday of Sukkot, a traditionally cheerful weeklong harvest festival made effervescent by the...

Terrorist Incidents against Jewish Communities and Israeli Citizens Abroad, 1968-2010

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID= 1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=624&PID=0&IID=8920&TTL=Terrorist_Incidents_ against_Jewish_Communities_and_Israeli_Citizens_Abroad,_1968-2010 â— The phenomenon of terrorism against Jewish communities and Israeli targets abroad represents the most violent aspect of contemporary anti-Semitism, and the greatest physical danger to Diaspora Jewish communities. The rational calculations of political...

Truth and lies at the theatre of the absurd

http://phillipsblog.dailymail.co.uk/2011/09/ truth-and-lies-at-the-theatre-of-the-absurd.html Some 1941 years ago, the Romans conquered the ancient Jewish kingdom of Judea by force and attempted to expunge all memory of the Jews’ claim to the land by renaming the area Palestine. Two...

Teaching The “Right Of Return” in the UNRWA School System

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm? id=1487&sec=3&title=Teaching _ Introduction The essence of the Middle East conflict is the century-long struggle between Jews and Palestinian Arabs over one piece of land stretching between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan, which both parties regard...

UNRWA in its Present Form; Impediment to Peace in the Middle East

A Middle East peace process ensued 34 years ago, when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made an unprecedented middle east peace effort, when he proclaimed a new policy of peace and reconciliation with Israel. Sadat...

Abu Mazen’s bag of lies

http://fiammanirenstein.com/articoli.asp?Categoria=5&Id=2704 After the round of applause to Abu Mazen who asked the U.N. Security Council for the recognition of the Palestinian State, the Quartet tries to postpone the decision hoping for the procedures and asking...

UN statehood initiative raises hopes and fears in Palestinian refugee camps

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/middle-east/un-statehood- initiative-raises-hopes-and-fears-in-palestinian-refugee-camps BEIRUT // Alia Hussein has lived all of her 59 years in Bourj Al Barajneh refugee camp in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital. Her nine children were also raised in the crowded camp,...

Commentary: Eternal Palestinian refugees

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/22/3930876/ commentary-eternal-palestinian.html As Palestinians seek recognition as a state from the UN this week, many wonder what impact such a move might have on the 4.6 million Palestinians who are refugees from the 1948 Israel War...

Eternal Palestinian refugees

As Palestinians seek recognition as a state from the UN this week, many wonder what impact such a move might have on the 4.6 million Palestinians who are refugees from the 1948 Israel War...

The Key Theme? Not Israeli Panic or Isolation But Western Unreliability

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/09/ key-theme-not-israeli-panic-or.html A version of this article was published in the Jerusalem Post. I own the copyright, this is the best version, so please read and link here. "Then was the palm of the hand sent from...