Disproportionate chutzpa – writes Michael Kuttner

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/disproportionate-chutzpa-writes-michael-kuttner/43979#more-43979 As predictable as day following night the reaction of the international community to Israel’s continuing search for the murderers of the three teenage students could have been anticipated. We were thus not disappointed or...

Egyptian Al-Ahram: Peace Only if ’48 Refugees Return Home

Full Text: Even if the statement made by US President Bill Clinton last week that millions of Palestinian refugees "should be given the freedom to settle wherever they want to" was a "slip of the...

Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner, Augu. 5th-10th, 2007

Posting: August 10, 2007 "Our IDF" I want to return here to the issue of soldiers who refused to participate in evicting Hevron residents from the marketplace, Mitzpe Shalhevet. The story as it was widely presented, was...

The Palestinian “Humiliation” Dilemma

Last Wednesday, President George W. Bush, addressing a crowded press conference in London in the presence of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, called on Israel to stop what he termed the "daily humiliation" of...

Arafat From Defender to Dictator. Part one of book summary

Arafat: From Defender to Dictator by Said Aburish Bloomsbury Publishers, London, 1998 Born August 24, 1929 in Cairo. Named Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat Al Qudua Al Husseini.(Muhammed Abdel Rahman-first name, Abdel Raouf - father's name,...

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

http://jcpa.org/article/changing-historical-narrative-saeb-erekats-new-spin/ Vol. 14, No. 8 March 23, 2014 Palestinian leaders are manipulating the history of geographic Palestine/Land of Israel. They have manufactured a curious claim, expressed recently by Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, that they...

Critique of Hansen Op-ed

Mr. Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief Works Agency, in a NYT op-ed on July 30, 2002, "Easing Palestine's Humanitarian Crisis", and in an IHT op-ed on July 31, 2002, correctly...

Questions that Jews could ask Abbas in New York today

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/questions-that-jews-could-ask-abbas-in-new-york-today/ This morning, Palestinian Authority foreign minister Riad Malki announced that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas will meet Jewish community representatives in New York. That meeting could provide an opportunity for Jews to ask probing questions of...

There is no joy in Mudville, Ramallah

While the entire Arab world covered the Saddam Hussein capture in great detail, the official Palestine Broadcasting Corporation radio carried a short, curt announcement of his incarceration, and Arafat issued a brief statement about...