Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now
A review of Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 by Jeffrey Herf, Cambridge University Press, 500 pages (April 2022)
On November 29th, Israel will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the...
The “right of return”: the PLO negotiating position that stalls the process
The most significant decision of the Sept. 13th PLO central committee was barely reported: The absolute and uncompromising Palestinian position that every refugee who left Palestine in 1948 should have the "inalienable right" to...
Palestinian Reactions to the Wye River Memorandum III
Revising the Charter and Security Issues
Part II, Section C, Paragraph 2, of the Wye River Memorandum, requires the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Central Council to reaffirm the January...
FOLLOW UP QUESTION: PRESS STATEMENT: UNRWA calls for restraint as violence escalates in the...
From: Dr. Aaron LernerSent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 6:03 PMTo: c.gunness@unrwa.org
Greetings,
“We again call on the Israeli authorities to refrain from punishing individuals for offences they themselves have not personally committed.”
What is the view of...
In the Shadow of 1914: The Current Situation
With each passing day, the political landscape across the globe looks increasingly like August 1914. Then, it took only the assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist to ignite the First World...
Asking President Clinton to recall US ambassador Martin Indyk
I wish to take the unusual step of asking the President of the United States, The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, to recall the current US Ambassador to Israel, Mr. Martin Indyk.
That is because Mr....
The Islamic University of Gaza, A Hamas Stronghold, Has Been Supported by the EU...
The Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) is a radical Islamist academic institution which has been a Hamas stronghold since its founding. Generations of Hamas' military and political leadership grew out of the university, and...
Comments for Yom Kippur
First two quick comments about the operation in Jordan: When President Clinton commented that its illegal for the U.S. to send agents to knock off people there was an implied air of moral superiority.
Let's...
Exposing & Reforming UNRWA
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I. Introduction
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is currently petitioning donor nations to increase to...
Pollak: 5 Consequences of Israel’s Stunning Win over Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The war began after Israel arrested a PIJ leader in the West Bank last week. PIJ then began mobilizing for terror attacks along the Gaza-Israel boundary, and Israel launched a preemptive strike, killing PIJ...