Are Israel’s Settlements Legal?

Assuming the Middle East conference actually does take place, its official task will be to achieve peace between Israel and its Levantine neighbors in accordance with Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. Resolution 242,...

Commentary: Eternal Palestinian refugees

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/22/3930876/ commentary-eternal-palestinian.html As Palestinians seek recognition as a state from the UN this week, many wonder what impact such a move might have on the 4.6 million Palestinians who are refugees from the 1948 Israel War...

The Two State Delusion V: Critical Realities:Fatah and Hamas

Quite apart from the intrinsically contradictory fundamental approach that would beset any Arab-Israel negotiations for a “Two-State Solution”, there is another basic problem. The Arabs are divided in two hostile camps. Fatah (P.L.O.) controls...

Letter a Jewish woman in Britain sent yesterday (19 November) to William Hague, the...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3105&sec=3&title=Letter_a_Jewish_woman_in_Britain_sent_yesterday_(19_November)_to_William_Hague,_the_British_Foreign_Secretary _ Dear Mr Hague You have stated that if Israel tries to defend its population through a ground offensive in Gaza ‘it risks losing the sympathy of the international community.’ Let me tell you something about...

Telling Israel like it is – in Arabic

I first met Boshra Khalaila in the Spring of 2010, at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy’s offices in Jerusalem. She was 24 at the time. Like me, she’d been alarmed by the public relations...

Anatomy of a deal

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/ CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4134431,00.html The military impasse, the stands taken by the Shin Bet and the Mossad, Hamas elasticizing its stance, the Arab Spring and the Palestinian bid in the UN - all of these contributed to Prime...

Muslim Persecution of Christians: June, 2013

http://www.meforum.org/3609/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013 The degradation of Christian women living in the Islamic world continued in the month of June. In Syria, after the al-Qaeda linked rebel group conquered Qusair, a city of the governate of Homs, 15-year-old...

Israel’s new game plan with Hezbollah and Syria

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/2014/02/27/Israel-s-new-game-plan-with-Hezbollah-and-Syria.html Under late Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, and for 29 years, Israel did not once directly strike Syria outside the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. This dynamic is quickly changing today, as the internal conflict spreads...

A Diary of Insight in Middle East Reporting

Posting: April 17, 2008 "Carter's Destruction" Today is the day that Jimmy Carter -in defiance of requests from several quarters that he not do so-is going to be meeting with officials from Hamas. To achieve peace,...

Shmuel (Sammy) Bar-Lev: Syria’s recognition of Turkish sovereignty in Alexandretta precedent for Golan

Shmuel (Sammy) Bar-Lev, chairman of the Katzrin local council, suggested this morning in a live interview on Israel Radio that Syria reach peace with Israel as it did with Turkey - with the Syrians...