Incisive Commentary from Jerusalem

Posting: March 24, 2008 "Fatah and Hamas" Well, here we are in the midst of an ever-changing scenario that has yet to play itself out. Officially, neither the US nor Israel has comment on the agreement signed...

Barack Obama, Jewish-Americans And Israel

From a personal and professional perspective, this is the sixth American Presidential campaign that I have covered from Israel, concentrating on the "Israel aspect" of the story. This time I not only have covered the...

Israel Is Not A Banana Republic – Begin’s Rebuttal Of Reagan, State Dept., on...

VOLUME 7: 1981-1982 In an unprecedented move, Mr. Begin summoned the United States ambassador to Israel, and read to him the following statement in response to the punitive measures threatened by the US against Israel. It...

Analysis: Understanding What is Now Transpiring in Egypt

January 31, 2011 "Convoluted and Painful Process" The issues are anything but simple, and resolution of the situation in Egypt will not happen overnight, or in a week or a month. I do not intend to...

Saudis end funding to PA

The Palestinian Authority has been struggling amid a cutoff of funds by Saudi Arabia. Officials said Saudi Arabia halted funding to the PA in April 2016 amid a political dispute. They said the Saudi cutoff...

Sannctifying Suicide: Analysis of the Islamic Perspective

The great increase in suicide attacks in the course of this past year sparked a debate in the Arab and Moslem world on the position of Islamic religious law toward the issue of self-sacrifice...

Campers Come Home to Roost: “Seeds For Peace” revisited

Once again the camp, Seeds of Peace hits the news and who can argue with "peace?" Unfortunately the concept, more particularly the sponsoring organization, Seeds of Peace, has developed a glaring glitch. A Seeds...

Where Hamas Gets Its Money

Amid international condemnation of Israel, one would never guess that humanitarian aid and even cash is flowing into Hamas coffers, while its rockets continue to hit Israel. It is important to alleviate the suffering of...

News Analysis: Wiki Leaks Puts an End to the Notion of a Link Between...

Obama and company have been insisting, with enormous perversity, that "peace" between Israel and the PA was necessary in order to make the "moderate" Arab states happy, and that until these states were satisfied,...

Dominic Lawson: So who still thinks Israel is the root of Middle East problems?

independent.co.uk Forget the massacre of thousands in Syria and Egypt, whether by chemical weapons or more conventional methods of mass slaughter. The Middle Eastern issue galvanising some of our musical mega-stars and their followers, even...