Arafat, the Palestine Authority and the Hamas: A Surprising Cooperative Relationship

Almost four years ago, when Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with Yassir Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on the White House lawn most people in Israel and abroad expected...

Living with a War on the Road Near Our Home

Yesterday three brutal murders rocked our community. Two were from Efrat. Sarah Blaustein, 53 was shot to death while on the way with her family and some hitchhikers picked up in Efrat, to the...

A Moral Victory in Durban

THE FORUM of non-governmental organizations or NGOs at the World Conference Against Racism can be considered a turning point in the history of the global human rights movement - not because of the victory...

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Problem

In the aftermath of World War II, when it became apparent that millions of destitute refugees were not going to be attended to by existing organizations, the United Nations saw fit to establish an...

Backgrounder: The Jewish Community of Hebron and its Renewal

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...

Refugee Lawyer David Matas: UNWRA, Palestinian and Jewish Refugees :There are No International Instruments...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2899&sec=1&title=Refugee_Lawyer_David_Matas:_UNWRA,_Palestinian__and_Jewish_Refugees_:There_are_No_International_Instruments_which_Give_Palestinians_A_Right_of_Return (The following is an excerpt of Remarks prepared for a delivery to a conference on Justice for Jews from Arab countries, Jerusalem, Israel, 10 September 2012) There is a troubling pattern of claimed Palestinian rights...

(By popular demand) TRANSCRIPT : CAMP JIHAD: INSIDE UNRWA SUMMER CAMP SEASON, 2013

(By popular demand) TRANSCRIPT: CAMP JIHAD: INSIDE UNRWA SUMMER CAMP SEASON, 2013 http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5666&q=1 Narrator: The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, also known as UNRWA, serves 5 million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israel...

Counter Tourism: Responding to Pro-Palestinian Protest and Solidarity Tours

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/142230/sec_id/142230 Visits to Efrat Since the early 1990s I have spoken with nearly 4,000, mostly non-Jewish, visitors to Efrat, a modern-Orthodox/religious-Zionist community of some 10,000 residents situated about halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron. I began...

Hamas Issues ‘Terrorism 101 Handbook’

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hamas-issues-terrorism-101-handbook/ Hamas has been disseminating to its followers in the Gaza Strip a detailed terrorism training manual that teaches would-be bombers how to make explosives and conceal them in household items such as televisions, according...

Official PA radio news – the PBC Voice of Palestine Oct 23

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The Jews came here to sweep away the presence our people to transfer our people." (Ahmad Abdul-Rahman, cabinet secretary of the Palestinian Authority, in Oct 23 first morning news interview) DETAIL AND...