Why Isn’t Obama Pressuring thePalestinians?

For the first time since the Oslo peace process started 18 years ago, Palestinian leaders are openly refusing to negotiate with the government of Israel, and U.S. President Barack Obama's administration is doing very...

The Western Wall: Is it the Kotel or Al-Buraq Wall?

"The Shechina will never move from the Western Wall" according to an ancient tradition (Exodus Rabba 2.2). Originally, this saying did not refer to the present Western Wall which is part of retaining...

Official PLO news agency features study denying Jewish right to Western Wall

With thanks to imra@netvision.net.il for locating this source "Nor can any Muslim or Arab or Palestinian, and for whatever reason, give up a single stone or corn dust from the Wailing Wall or other holy places, because...

Geert Wilders’ Speech in Tel Aviv

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot. com/2010/12/geert-wilders- speech-in-tel-aviv.html#more Below is the text of the speech given today in Tel Aviv by Geert Wilders. Update:Thanks to Brian ofLondon for the photo. Shalom chaveriem, Let me start by saying that it is with great...

TURKEY IS LIKE IRAN

The WikiLeaks documents only confirmed the extent to which the US and Europe are concerned about the dangerous regime that has come to power in Turkey. There are already two entities in the Middle...

The Palestinian Proletariat

British Prime Minister David Cameron recently called Gaza a “prison camp.” Former President Jimmy Carter has called it a “cage.” At first glance, these characterizations of the Hamas-ruled ­province seem like rhetorical excesses designed...

PART II – WHAT DOES JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT A MURAL OF...

Justin Trudeau Photo by Rhonda Spivak. Mural of female Palestinian suicide bomber on UNWRA school near entrance to Deheishe Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. UN Van entering school near the mural...

CAMPUS ANTISEMITISM: COMBATING ISRAEL APARTHEID WEEK ON CAMPUS – THOUGHTFUL ENGAGEMENT REQUIRED

ATTEMPT TO BAN IAW IS LOSING BATTLE - BUILDING AN ISRAELI MARKET, BAGELS AND SIZE DOESN'T MATTER CAMPAIGN ISN'T ENOUGH In her lecture, Dr. Chatterley refers to the Size Doesn't Matter Campaign 2010 inaugural video...

CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri?

Who killed Rafik Hariri? His assassination in February 2005 rocked the power arrangements in the Middle East and turned him into an overarching symbol of everything that was wrong in Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) It wasn't...

Why Israel is a rogue state [Gabriel Latner]

In October there was a debate in Cambridge; the proposition - "Israel is a rogue state". Gabriel Latner was the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to...