News Analysis

The Israeli government is waiting for the US government to put in writing what Clinton told Netanyahu verbally. Israel might have to wait a long time. Yesterday, when State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was asked about...

How Haaretz concocted a conflict

-- On July 10, 2008 Ha’aretz’s main section contained a small story. Not small, tiny. 93 words to be precise. “The district committee,” stated the article, “has approved for public hearing the establishment of...

U.S. Congress Backs Israel, Will Israel Join In?:Interview with David Bedein

Several members of the United States Congress have sponsored legislation aimed at putting an end to Arab incitement against Israel. Now an Israeli reporter is calling on the government to state its own position,...

Benny Morris: “The 1948 War Was an Islamic Holy War”

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/middle+east+forum/12c06c8e5b7552af MiddleEast Quarterly Summer 2010, pp. 63-69 (view PDF) Benny Morris is professor of history in the MiddleEast Studies Department at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel. For many years, his academic...

The Arab Lobby: The European Component

In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of the looming rise of an Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The National Association of...

The Seven Noahide Laws

Remind those who judge Israel that they are also being judged: In the Talmud “Sanhedrin” (98.b), Abaye asked Rabbah, “Why do you not want to see the Messiah’s arrival?” “Is it because you fear the travail...

LEE KAPLAN IN ISRAEL TO ADVISE ISRAELI JURISTS ON FLOTILLA, RACHEL CORRIE CASES: Infiltrated...

Is the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) composed of non-violent peace activists or supporters of terrorism? The answer is clear to Lee Kaplan, investigative journalist, Senior Intelligence Analyst and Communications Director for the Northeast Intelligence Network,...

Incisive Middle East News Analysis

"Anti-Semitism Today" Dr. Simcha Epstein made a presentation in the on-going series on post Holocaust Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Institute for Global Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Dr. Epstein, an author, teaches at...

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire: NOT A PEACEFUL WOMAN

We must not mistake her: The Nobel peace prize laureate is no “peace activist.” She identifies in absolute terms with Hamas, despite the fact that she knows that it is an anti-Semitic organization that...

UN Experts Fault Iran on Discrimination; Iran Cites Durban II Participation

Contact for interviews: media1@unwatch.org Tel: +41.79.332.8106 +41.79.332.8106 Geneva, August 4 - UN experts faulted Iran today for discriminating against women and ethnic minority groups, during a periodic review of the country's record in Geneva. Members of...