New Zealand official investigation of UNRWA

Background 1. This is a follow-on from our previous complaint (ref: 535818). a. On 09 Nov 2020 you acknowledged that we were still engaging with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and with the New...

Did Defense Minister Benny Gantz raise any key demands in his meeting with PA...

Did Gantz demand that Abbas repeal the unprecedented PA law that provides salaries (a fee for the killer and a fee for family of the murderer) for life for anyone who murders a Jew? Did...

Palestine Liberation Organization Portrays Sirhan As Commando Hero

The Los Angeles Times reported from Beirut yesterday that the Palestine Liberation Organization was distributing several hundred thousand posters in Arab countries depicting Sirhan Sirhan, on trial for the murder of Sen. Robert F....

Imbecilic insanity

Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is reported as having called the American Administration’s total pullout from Afghanistan as imbecilic. A quoted remark made by the late President John Kennedy succinctly sums up the...

UNRWA’s Jihad against Israel (Part Two)

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East or “UNRWA was nurtured from its beginnings to avoid any permanent solution to the plight of the refugees” from Israel’s 1948...

The Lesson from the U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Israel Must Recognize the Limits of...

The rapid collapse of the government in Kabul after the American withdrawal teaches that Jerusalem must defend itself on its own in the Iranian context, against the Palestinians, and other threats. The weakness...

Hamas’ secret foreign investment portfolio reportedly worth $500m

Hamas has a secret overseas investment portfolio worth more than $500 million, documents seen by a German newspaper have suggested. The investments include interests in about 40 international companies controlled by Hamas in the Middle East and...

Questionable friends

“In life, we never lose friends, we only learn who the TRUE ones are.” This unattributed quote came to mind as Afghans were being thrown to the wolves once again. Over our long and tortuous history,...

The Radicalization of the Israeli Arabs

The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies is an independent, non-partisan think tank conducting policy-relevant research on Middle Eastern and global strategic affairs, particularly as they relate to the national security and foreign policy of Israel and...

Dr. Groiss responds to Haaretz

Dr. Assaf David, head of the Israeli Forum for Regional Thinking, has published an article in Haaretz, Aug 10, 2021, in which he reviews the recent report by the German Georg Eckert Institute (GEI)...