Terror Attacks on Israel and UNRWA’s Education System

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anav-silverman/ terror-attacks-on-israel-_b_930141.html "Peace starts here," is the key marketing slogan that UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) uses in its videos, pamphlets, posters and other marketing and fundraising material....

Op-Ed: The Anti-Israel Distortions Industry

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10516 There is no shortage of claims about alleged Israeli human rights violations in Judea and Samaria, the so called 'West Bank'. Most of these claims originate from Palestinian sources and NGO’s and are part of...

PCHR Is Concerned Security Services Interference into Public Liberties in Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53455 PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Ref: 85/2011 Date: 18 August 2011 Time: 12:00 GMT PCHR Is Concerned Security Services’ Interference into Public Liberties in Gaza The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over increasing assaults...

Did the White House ‘Cleanse’ References to Jerusalem, Israel From Its Web Site?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-the-white-house- cleanse-references-to-jerusalem-israel-from-its-web-site/ On Tuesday, The Weekly Standard’s deputy online editor, Daniel Halper, made a noteworthy charge against the White House. Following an article in which he discussed the ongoing debate over which country the U.S. believes Jerusalem...

The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps. Of...

An Open Letter to the Government of Israel: Stand Proud and Defiant against Turkish...

Genocide Prevention Program & Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention I am an epidemiologist specializing in the investigation of the role of incitement of all kinds as early warning signs, predictors, promoters and catalysts for conflict,...

Urgent NGO Appeal to End Syria’s Ramadan Massacre

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2. aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330815&ct=11106989 H. E. Laura Dupuy Lasserre President, Human Rights Council United Nations Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Aug. 9, 2011 Dear Madam President, We, an international coalition of non-governmental and human rights organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to end...

UNRWA and Alternatives for Palestinian Refugees

http://aijac.org.au/news/article/unrwa-and-alternatives-for-palestinian-refugees There are 1.6 million people in the Gaza Strip, most of them in UNRWA (United Nations Relief Works Agency) “refugee” camps. With support from more than 35 major Western democracies, UNRWA could be dealing with...

Jordan’s Protests: Arab Spring Lite?

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.helfont_helfont.jordan.html Samuel Helfont is a Ph.D Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and an Associate Scholar of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Islam and Modernity (2009)...

Israeli sources: Arab Spring let Palestinians ramp up Gaza arms smuggling

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-sources- arab-spring-let-palestinians-ramp-up-gaza-arms-smuggling-1.375067 The revolutions in the Arab world, especially the Egyptian security forces' diminished control in the Sinai, have allowed the Palestinians to exponentially increase their weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip, senior defense officials say. In...