Palestine

JERUSALEM - In response to Amnesty International's 2012 World Report, NGO Monitor today released the following statement: · As in many previous reports, Amnesty continues to level unsupported allegations of violations of international law against...

http://freebeacon.com/redefining-refugee-status/ Update: A Senate amendment aimed at finding exactly how many Palestinian refugees are benefitting from U.S. tax dollar has passed a major procedural hurdle despite “enormous opposition” by the State Department, Jordanian government, and...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/24/senate_fight_today_over_palestinian_refugees Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian "refugees" or just around 30,000 -- a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/is-the-un-making-the-palestinian-refugee-problem-worse/2012/05/23/gJQAxW0BkU_blog.html Until recently, few Americans ever heard of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). But then Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) got interested in what the agency, supposedly neutral in the...

http://schanzer.pundicity.com/11725/status-update A war is brewing on Capitol Hill. And while wars tend to create refugees, this one may result in fewer of them. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is trying to get a handle on the real...

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3061/goal-of-palestinian-government The Palestinian government is in fact lying when it talks about a financial crisis; its main goal is to get Western and Arab donors to channel more funds to Ramallah. "Corruption in the Palestinian...

Leaked documents on Arab-Israeli conflict promote misinformation from NGO grantees Background Since 2010, six documents from the offices of EU representatives in Israel and the Palestinian Authority - dealing with the central, complex, and sensitive issues...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2529&sec=3&title=Will_U.N._Employee%E2%80%99s_Online_Words_About_Israel_Result_in_Her_Termination The recent uproar over a note on the Twitter post of a Palestinian woman was not exceptional, or-unfortunately-unusual. But the news photo sent out by Khulood Badawi had two additional elements: First, it was...

Joel Fishman is a historian and a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is also a member of the board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and served as...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/feeding-the-hand-that-bites-you-reconsidering-aid-to-gaza-regime-at-war-with-israel/ During the second week of March, 2012, while the Gaza regime launched more than 300 aerial attacks against southern Israel, driving one million people to cower in shelters, Israel announced to the world that...