Abbas: Meeting with Hamas Leaders “Positive”
GAZA, Palestine, August 10, 2005 - President Mahmoud Abbas met yesterday evening with a delegate of senior leaders of Hamas Movement in his presidential premises. He later described the meeting as "cordial" and "positive".
The...
“Can’t Buy Me Love” : The Folly of Woflensohn and Zuckerman and the Green...
When James Wolfensohn and Mort Zuckerman raised $14 million to buy the Gush Katif hothouses from Israeli farmers to give to the Palestinians, many people were surprised. "We thought it was a chance to...
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Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that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....
David Bedein’s coverage of Israel for the Evening Bulletin of Philadelphia, August-October, 2006
10/24/06
Seven Armed Palestinian Terrorists Killed In Gaza The IDF fire resulted in the death of Atta Fuad Shanbari, the commander of the Popular Resistance Committees in the northern Gaza Strip, and six others. Israeli...
Why not an EU-led trusteeship?
From the Israeli perspective, attempts to find a way out of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have been stymied by a conceptual contradiction never faced before.
On the one hand, there is a broad consensus among the...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: July 27, 2007
"Courage"
Their names were Avshalom Haviv, Meir Nakar and Yaakov Weiss, and their memories stand as a blessing. In yesterday's Post, Yehuda Avner told their story:
It was 1947. As the days of...
The UN terror connection in Gaza
Breakdown and Introduction
At the beginning of November, Col. Nir Press, of the IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, registered a complaint with the United Nations Relief and Welfare Agency (UNWRA) regarding the use by...
Incisive Commentary
Posting: February 27, 2008
"More?!"
Over 40 Kassams were launched from Gaza today. Hamas has claimed credit for this barrage.
One rocket hit in Sderot near Sapir College, killing student Ronnie Yechiya, who was the father of...
Why A Two-State Solution Will Not Work For Israel
In early September, in my capacity as the head of the Sderot Media Center, I was invited to take part in a press conference in the Norwegian capitol of Oslo, together with the Israeli...
Insight in the News in Israel
Posting: November 26, 2008
"So, Nu?"
Last night at an Anglo Likud Forum at which some of the candidates for the Likud list spoke, I heard constitutional lawyer Yosi Fuchs -- founder of Forum for the...