Palestine

Posting: August 10, 2007 "Our IDF" I want to return here to the issue of soldiers who refused to participate in evicting Hevron residents from the marketplace, Mitzpe Shalhevet. The story as it was widely presented, was...

Imagine, if you would, that a nascent nation state, somewhere in the world, was in formation that had taken on these features: Its new constitution would not allow for any juridical status for Judaism. Jews would...

Posting: October 9, 2007 "Speechless?" Not quite. It takes a lot to render me speechless. But the events of the last few days push me in that direction. The foolishness, the essential errors in thinking, the...

Poll No. 165 Date: June 18, 2008 The most recent poll of the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion prepared by Dr. Nabil Kukali has revealed that: (83.0 %) of the Palestinians support at present the Palestinian-Israeli...

Barry Rubin*

http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/07/06/the-palestinian-accountability-act/ One of the more intractable components of our foreign policy dating back to the Clinton years has been the obsession of creating a Palestinian state. The career egghead diplomats in the State Department believed...

http://schanzer.pundicity.com/12253/gaza-prepares-to-declare-independence-from It's no secret that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist faction that controls Gaza, has long considered exchanging its underground smuggling tunnels to Egypt for a policy of above-board trade. What has only recently begun to...

http://jcpa.org/article/the-long-term-implications-of-the-israel-hamas-clash/ Vol. 12, No. 26 21 November 2012 The current clash between Israel and Hamas did not begin with rocket fire but with ramped-up terror activity on the Israel-Gaza border. Hamas’ strategy has changed over the...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/the-useful-myth-that-obama-now-likes.html Reality, especially in 2012, is very hard to face. So many hopes dashed; so many bad things happening. So people can be forgiven for taking refuge in wishful thinking. Sometimes, not telling the truth...

On January 18, 2013, The Jerusalem Post magazine featured a parody of an interview with the non elected Palestinian Arab Authority Prime Minister Fayad, http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=36880 characterized by softball questions that provided Fayad with an opportunity...