Mr. Abbas, Tear Down This Wall! Reject the Notion of the Right of Return...

<!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> UNRWA Balata Refugee Camp, 2003. <!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> . While the world's headlines focus with exaggerated alarm on Israel's lifting of its ten-month building freeze within Jewish West Bank settlements, an issue of...

Benny Morris: “The 1948 War Was an Islamic Holy War”

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/middle+east+forum/12c06c8e5b7552af MiddleEast Quarterly Summer 2010, pp. 63-69 (view PDF) Benny Morris is professor of history in the MiddleEast Studies Department at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel. For many years, his academic...

UN refugee agency poisons the push for Mideast peace: UNRWA only furthers Palestinians’ suffering

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-06-03/news/29631722_1_palestinian-refugees-palestine-refugees-unrwa When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out of his lengthy sitdown with President Obama, he focused as much on the question of the right of return of Palestinian refugees as he did on...

Op-Ed: The Anti-Israel Distortions Industry

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10516 There is no shortage of claims about alleged Israeli human rights violations in Judea and Samaria, the so called 'West Bank'. Most of these claims originate from Palestinian sources and NGO’s and are part of...

A Forty-Year Fraud

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/a-forty-year-fraud/ Since its establishment in 1993, the Palestinian Authority has been the leading political body for achieving Palestinian rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But behind the scenes in the UN, the Committee...

Will Palestinian Reconciliation Lead to a Hamas Takeover of the PLO?

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID= 111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=11619&TTL=Will_Palestinian_Reconciliation_Lead_to _a_Hamas_Takeover_of_the_PLO ? PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal reached an agreement in Cairo on 22 December on national reconciliation and a strategic partnership. A new temporary leadership was formed for the PLO,...

The Ever-Growing Palestinian Problem

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291500/ever- growing-palestinian-problem-daniel-pipes Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestinian refugees. The origins of this unique case,...

EU Documents Repeat False NGO Claims and Increase Tension

Leaked documents on Arab-Israeli conflict promote misinformation from NGO grantees Background Since 2010, six documents from the offices of EU representatives in Israel and the Palestinian Authority - dealing with the central, complex, and sensitive issues...

The Levy Report: Reinvigorating the Discussion of Israel’s Rights in the West Bank

http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives176.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria (the "Levy report") has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness...

WJC ANALYSIS – Is the war in Syria undermining the Palestinian claim to the...

http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12161/wjc_analysis_is_the_war_in_syria_undermining_the_palestinian_claim_to_the_right_of_return _ The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which...