“The refugees from the 1948 war are now our responsibility .

In March 1968, less than a year after the Six Day War, Rabbi Eugene Weiner addressed my senior high school class at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia, Pa. about a moral implication of that...

Text: Barnea article of Kerry team slamming Netanyahu

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63740 Below is the headline making interview in which the Americans from Kerry's team complain to Nachum Barnea about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It is an early Israel Independence Day gift to Netanyahu. Here is what they...

Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation

http://jcpa.org/article/crisis-peace-talks/ Vol. 14, No. 9 April 10, 2014 In March 2014, Saeb Erekat, the head of the Palestinian negotiating team, prepared a 65-page document that surveys the diplomatic process and offers a list of recommendations for...

Editor’s report: Ramallah -The Back Entrance,a Whiff of Nazism and Coca -Cola

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3978&sec=2&title=Editor%27s_report:_Ramallah_-The_Back_Entrance,a_Whiff_of_Nazism_and_Coca_-Cola Up until August 2011, I had no idea that there was a "back" entrance to Ramallah used for diplomats only, which enabled them to get in and out of Ramallah with ease and avoid...

Op-Ed: Financing the Flames III: Lawmakers Ready to Defund PA

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14916#.U2LCXYGSyRM Exclusive to Arutz Sheva A growing number of lawmakers in the United States, Great Britain, and the European Union are openly suggesting the billions of dollars, pounds, and euros that they and others have collectively...

UNRWA: Blurring the Lines between Humanitarianism and Politics

http://jcpa.org/unrwa_blurring_the_lines/ The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has become one of the largest UN programs, with over 30,000 personnel operating in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the...

Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat: Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands

http://ngo-monitor.org/article/human_rights_and_international_humanitarian_law_secretariat_denmark_sweden_switzerland_and_the_netherlands Overview Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands jointly fund Israeli and Palestinian NGOs through The Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat (the “Secretariat”). This funding mechanism has a projected budget of $17.6 million over...

Abbas’ fictional state

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=8151 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has heard about the latest videotape by al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in which Zawahri calls Abbas a "traitor who is selling out Palestine," and has gotten cold feet. But even...

Indyk and the myth of PLO’s cancelled covenant

http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2014/04/13/indyk-myth-plos-cancelled-covenant/ Martin Indyk, is now the mediator between Israel and the PLO in negotiations that have continued in deadlock for the past six months Indyk’s record with the PLO should be examined. Indyk is the one of...

A message for Passover: Should the people of Israel become the Jews of silence?

http://www.heritagefl.com/story/2014/04/11/opinions/a-message-for-passover-should-the-people-of-israel-become-the-jews-of-silence/2512.html Fifty years ago, Elie Wiesel, then a little known Israeli news correspondent in the U.S. wrote a book that shook the soul of a generation: “The Jews of Silence.” Wiesel described two kinds of...