A Week in Poland: A Difficulty Time of Reflection

I have just returned from what I hope was my first and last trip to Poland. Before we left, we went to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. There we were told, that the...

Phantom Nation: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace, Volume I, II and...

Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Shai-Ben-Tekoa/e/B00H479XCI Reviewed by Samantha Allie, Analyst, Center for Near East Policy Research, and David Bedein, Center director. This three volume work, written by Middle East scholar Shai Ben Tekoa, provides a unique opportunity for...

The Shadow of their smile: Home demolitions of terrorists only act as an incentive...

Incentives for terror include having your house rebuilt after its demolition. Best real estate deal in the Middle East. Imagine the scene. A teenager wakes up in a crowded family home in Halhoul, near Hebron....

This is Not a Foreign Land

In the wake of the Feast of Lights, Hanukkah, and mindful of the confusion and the darkness that appear to have descended upon so many of us, we would do well to take a...

Response to Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz article in the Spectator

Response to Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz article in the Spectator. Kol HaKavod that you continue to publicize "right of return" as the driving issue of UNRWA to wide coverage in the public domain. I...

Israel civilian population; target of attacks in next round of fighting

IDF Chief of Staff - Cochavi - warns of unprecedented firepower by Hezballah. This firepower (missiles and rockets), coupled with the Hezballah "breakout" strategy of sending forces to invade Israel all along the so-called...

Chart: How UAE – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES- now in a peace treaty with Israel,...

UAE & UNRWA – IN $ Year UAE UAE RED CROSS Total $ 2011 1,824,959 1,800,000   3,624,959 2012 1,000,000 2,163,331 3,163,331 2013 2,600,000 18,564,502 21,164,502 2014 16,800,000 42,953,021 59,753,021 2015 16,799,937 8,004,634 24,804,571 2016 16,800,000 9,935,051 26,735,051 2017 12,800,001 2,147 12,802,148 2018 53,800,000 - 53,800,000 2019 51,800,000 - 51,800,000   SOURCE: UNRWA.ORG

Weekly Commentary: Sunday or Never? Will Netanyahu Exercise Paragraph 29?

Let's cut through the confusion. When the Government meets next Sunday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can have the doors closed, pull out a map delineating the areas within which Israel is applying Israeli law and...

The Damascus Cover book becomes film

In October, 2014, thirty-seven years after its initial publication The Damascus Cover, by Howard Kaplan, begins film production in Morocco starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Abigail Spencer, Jurgen Prochnow, and Navid Negahban who played Abu...

1917 and the liberation of Jerusalem

On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby’s forces officially liberated Jerusalem. Actually, a Jerusalem delegation, led by the mayor, surrendered the city to a pair of British army cooks on December 8. Thus began a...