Critique of Abu Mazen from a Pro-Palestinian Advocacy Organization
"Among the fancy new villas, fanciest is that of Abu Mazen, key negotiator of the ill-fated Oslo accord. It is not clear who paid for this $2 million-plus affair, all balconies and balustrades in...
How an Innocuous Children Book Award Conference Became a Forum for Israel Bashing
The IBBY Jubilee Congress In Basel: You wouldn't believe it
Last week I was honored to represent Israel at the International Congress on Children's Literature that took place in Basel, Switzerland, since my book "The...
This Week In the Palestinian Authority: Issue Three
Editor's note:Welcome to the third edition of "Inside the PA," a weekly on-line publication designed to provide an open-source and yet valuable insight into the workings of the Palestinian Authority. We will review important...
No longer a journalist’s paradise
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=249682
Hebrew-language journalism in Israel is robust, comprehensive and often-courageous, but it has several flaws that ought to be brought to light if only to stimulate self-criticism and if possible, improvement.
One of them is the...
The Honey-Trap of Moral Equivalence
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3683/moral-equivalence
Today, in an age that often seems of pragmatism and managerial-ism in politics, if there is a way not just to honor the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's memory but to continue her legacy...
On the First Day of Cease Fire?
We are ending the first day of the ceasefire in Lebanon.
Here in Israel we really didn't expect it to hold even this long -- didn't expect Hezbollah to hold fire for more than and...
Official PA Radio News
Summary and Analysis
VOP continues to lead its news shows with details of martyrs' deaths, funeral times and graphic descriptions of those wounded. The second area of concentration is the diplomatic front: efforts By Yasser...
How Jerusalem’s Arabs Act Against Their Own Interests
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4019/jerusalem-elections-arabs
As Israelis prepare to cast their ballots in the municipal elections next week, tens of thousands of eligible Arab voters in Jerusalem will once again boycott the democratic process.
In the past few days, the...
Blaming the Victim
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2059519/Benjamin-Netanyahu
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One of the most egregious signs of western irrationality and bigotry over the issue of Israel is the way in which its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is routinely scapegoated for causing the breakdown...
UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?
Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....