Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: August 2, 2007
"Hot Air"
It's hot air, all right. Foul hot air, but air none the less. Consider all of the following:
Abbas, who cannot get his act together and couldn't run a nation if...
“Tension in the North”
Posting: April 2, 2008
"Tension in the North"
A report by a 'top military intelligence officer" to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday included a warning that Hezbollah is getting ready for new violence...
Antisemitism Embedded in British Culture
Antisemitism has been present in Great Britain for almost a thousand years of recorded history. In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews. It pioneered...
Israeli Legislators Confront The UN: REPLACE UNRWA WITH UNHCR
Today, an unusual coalition of conservative and liberal factions, which usually war with each other, formed in the Israeli Knesset.
A broad-based coalition of Israeli legislators called a packed press conference at the Israeli parliament...
JEWISH COMMUNITY OF HEBRON: NEWS BACKGROUNDER
The city of Hebron, approximately 20 miles south of Jerusalem in the Judean Hills, has been linked to the Jewish people from time immemorial. It is, after Jerusalem, the most sacred city for the...
Israel Not The Cause of Gazans’ Woe
Many Palestinians in Gaza, no matter their religious affiliation or political bent, are living in squalor and growing ignorance. Thousands are trying to flee.
Gaza has never been a prosperous enclave; the 140-square-mile territory has...
Israeli Cabinet Minister Edelstein ask CEO of Facebook to drop Third Palestinian Intifada page
MK YULI YOEL EDELSTEIN
MINISTER OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND DIASPORA AFFAIRS
To
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder and CEO
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
During these past few days a Facebook page entitled "Third Palestinian
Intifada" has been garnering attention on the web...
Ending the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/288231/ending-palestinian-right-return-daniel-pipes
Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and...
“Feeding the Hand that Bites You”: Reconsidering Israeli aid to a Gaza regime at...
During the second week of March, 2012, while the Gaza regime directed more than 300 lethal aerial attacks towards southern Israel, driving one million people to cower in shelters, Israel announced to the world...
THE “ARAB SPRING”: THE ORIGINS OF A MISNOMER
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2012/201204.susser.arabspring.html
The tumultuous events that have swept through the Middle East during the last year or so were widely referred to in the West as the "Arab Spring". The media was awash with expectations of...