Middle East

http://www.nysun.com/ editorials/justice-goldstones- regrets/87285/ It will be a while before we see an op-ed piece as newsworthy - and as galling - as that in today’s Washington Post by Justice Richard Goldstone. He is the former...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ opinions/reconsidering-the- goldstone-report-on-israel- and-war-crimes/2011/04/01/ AFg111JC_story.html We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=951&sec=1&title=WE_MADE_THE_FRONT_PAGE_OF_THE_JERUSALEM_POST:_ group or organization and was always independent.” After Neda’s burial, which took place 20 hours after her death, Makan “remained quiet and awaited the response of the regime,” but when there “was no logical...

This article was written by reporter Samuel Sokol: Jerusalem- The foreign ministry of Norway has sponsored an endorsement of Hamas' "hudna" The unofficial endorsement came in the form of a research paper published by the Norwegian...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_un_hatefest_coming_to_new_york_aw4H2No7x0ixxOjjb942jO Will this September's UN anti-racism conference in New York be yet another anti-Semitic, anti-Israel hatefest -- or will it actually work to forward human rights? Known as Durban III, the confab comes 10 years after...

(Communicated by the Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Spokesman) March 31, 2011 Attached is a letter from Facebook Director of Policy Richard Allan to Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein regarding the latter's 23.2.11 letter http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4330&q=1 to Facebook...

This article was authored by reporter Samuel Sokol: In 2007 the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that it was willing to grant amnesty to members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades,...

Entrance to UNWRA's Aida Palestinian Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, with key representing the right of return that says "not for Sale" photo by Rhonda spivak Mural of a former Palestinian village (as it was in 1948)...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=934&sec=1&title=HELEN_THOMAS__REVEALS_ALL_IN_PLAYBOY_INTERVIEW-_N0,_SHE%E2%80%99S_NOT_NUDE David Hochman ‘s recent interview of Helen Thomas in Playboy Magazine is definitely worth a read. Thomas had to “resign” from Hearst Newspapers on June 7 after she was asked by Rabbi David Nesenoff in...

Commentary from David Bedein: In March 2004, Israel announced that it killed Hamas leader, Ahmed Yassin http://tinyurl.com/63f5ayk Israel paid no price in terms of bad public relations for that act, despite the close relationship that Yassin...