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UN Resolution 1701 Compromised
In a declassified report released this week and published by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center located at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), security officials make an official claim that...
Arlene Kushner News Analyis from Jerusalem, Israel
Posting: August 17, 2007
"Duplicity, duplicity"
News has broken that Olmert and Abbas have been meeting to work out a framework for the "core" issues of refugees, Jerusalem and borders before the conference proposed by Bush...
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...
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...
“Our ‘Friend’ Fatah”
During World War One, Germany concluded that its chief ally, Austria-Hungary, was more of a burden than an asset. As one German official put it, that alliance was like being "shackled to a corpse."
And...
Repackaging Ehud Barak: Shades of Nixon?
In the Israel Labor Party primary held on Monday, Ehud Barak led the field of candidates to head the Israel Labor Party, to become Labor's leading candidate for the next Prime Minister- assuming that...
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...
