Washington’s Failure to Rein in UNRWA

General Assembly resolution 194 of December 11, 1948, offers two options, repatriation and resettlement, to achieve the reintegration of the Palestinian Arab refugees "into the economic life of the Near East." Yet,...

UNRWA’s Self-serving Agenda

Dr Uri Resnick currently serves as the Deputy Consul General for the Israel Embassy in Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Resnick previously served as the head of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division as...

Where Would Hezbollah Be Without the EU?

The EU has been here before. During the same period they came up with their false wall-of-separation within Hezbollah, they they did the same thing with Hamas. The fiction disappeared in Europe because it...

The Legal Basis of Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58871 The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of GazaProf. Ruth Lapidoth, July 18, 2010 Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 10, No. 4 http://jcpa.org/article/the-legal-basis-of-israel%E2%80%99s-naval-blockade-of-gaza/ -The relations between Israel and Hamas are in the nature of armed conflict. Nowadays no...

Anti-Semitism in Newton (MA) Schools

Below is my account of the developing scandal at the Newton public schools. For months a group of Jewish parents and community members has asked the school board for copies of the curriculum, texts...

Following the elections, Mideast peace negotiations should resume

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3432/mideast-peace-negotiations I was invited to meet with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority just before he spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations. I came to the meeting with an agenda: to persuade...

Into the Fray: Obama, Islam and Israel

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=290199 Photo: Yuri Gripas / Reuters There is much that binds the US and Israel together. Nonetheless, both political prudence and past experience suggest that the Israeli leadership should not disregard the prospect that the congruence...

Election Letter to my American Friends

Sherwin@atid-edi.com Sherwin Pomerantz, a 29 year resident of Israel. is President of Atid-EDI Ltd., a Jerusalem-based economic development consulting firm and a former National President of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel My fellow...

Refugee Lawyer David Matas: UNWRA, Palestinian and Jewish Refugees :There are No International Instruments...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2899&sec=1&title=Refugee_Lawyer_David_Matas:_UNWRA,_Palestinian__and_Jewish_Refugees_:There_are_No_International_Instruments_which_Give_Palestinians_A_Right_of_Return (The following is an excerpt of Remarks prepared for a delivery to a conference on Justice for Jews from Arab countries, Jerusalem, Israel, 10 September 2012) There is a troubling pattern of claimed Palestinian rights...

King Abdullah gets Rosh Hashana Gift: Signs Deal with Canadian Firm to Produce Oil...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2886&sec=2&title=King_Abdullah_gets_Rosh_Hashana_Gift:_Signs_Deal_with_Canadian_Firm_to_Produce_Oil_Shale:_Will_this_help_Stabilize_his_Kingdom It must be a tad frightening for King Abdullah to sit on his throne and look out at the developments that are englfing him in the Middle East. With neighboring Syria in a state...