Middle East

Since 1937, when Great Britain’s Peel Commission vainly proposed a “Two-State Solution” as “a chance for ultimate peace”, Arab-Israel “peace plans” have been advanced in predictably futile succession, among them: The U.N.’s “Partition Plan...

Published January 2011 http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=378&PID=0&IID=5603&TTL=The_Settlements_Issue:_Distorting_the_Geneva_Convention_and_the_Oslo_Accords Vol. 10, No. 20 5 January 2011 Alan Baker Palestinian representatives at the UN have prepared a draft resolution that will seek to declare that Israeli settlements are "illegal and constitute a major obstacle...

Ben Gurion University is in stress. The recent reports published by the “Im Tirtzu” student movement about the Post-Zionist political control dominating important parts of the university have had their effect and impact. They have managed to...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4008247,00.html The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) declared in December, 2010 that 2014 will, ostensibly, usher in a Jewish-Arab demographic parity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean followed by an Arab majority. That projection has...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4008684,00.html Yisrael Beiteinu says has majority to establish parliamentary inquiry commission to investigate cooperation between international 'anti-Zionist' groups and local organizations The Yisrael Beiteinu party announced Monday that it has submitted a request to establish a parliamentary...

Photo by: courtesy The new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman says she is determined to ‘show Israel that we are strongly in its corner.' WASHINGTON - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wasn’t pleased. She had just moved into her...

What happens when the New York Times publishes, with no investigation, an atrocity story about Israel that is not only false but ridiculously so, based on the most obvious starting point: death by tear-gas...

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...

UNITED NATIONS - The next flashpoint in the Middle East could be the gas fields off Israel's Mediterranean coast, where the discovery of large cashes of natural gas is raising homes that Israel could...

Gary Rosenblatt’s piece, Painful Path Toward Relocating Settlers, http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt/painful_path_toward_relocating_settlers, which ran in the Jewish Week on December 14, 2010, depicts a former official of Israeli intelligence, Ami Ayalon, as he fantasizes during a visit...