How Did Neo-Nazis Enter Israel?
A quirk in the first law of the state of Israel, the law of return, the policy that welcomes Jews to return to their homeland, allowed Jews who are anything but Jewish to enter...
Egypt Enables Hamas To Train In Iran
This weekend marks 30 years since the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat flew to Israel to declare his desire for peace with Israel, only four years after Mr. Sadat had launched a full scale...
Israel’s Predicament at 60
Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan.
They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....
She’s not all pure: An Assessment of Tzippi Livni
While it is certainly time for Israel to once again have a woman prime minister - if only to make life uncomfortable for Shas and the other chauvinists around the cabinet table - this...
An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria
Summer 2008, pp. 57-62
On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...
Israeli Government Minister Landaui Warns: Demand for Demilitarization Will Fade
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093404.html
By next year, nothing will remain of the demilitarization stipulation that
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set for the formation of a Palestinian
state, Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau warned on Tuesday at an event
sponsored by Yisrael...
Missing major questions] Analysis: Netanyahu’s demilitarized state
The huge issues surrounding Netanyahu's demilitarized state are not how many
and what gizmos the PA "security forces" can have.
The big questions are:
#1. Who decides there is a violation? It sounds like Israel would agree
to...
Senior Fatah Offiicial: Seek Alliance with Iran
www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=216259
Jerusalem - Ma'an - The time has come for Fatah, Palestine's largest
political party, to seek a strategic alliance with Iran, the movement's
Jerusalem affairs liaison Hatim Abdul Qader told Ma'an on Saturday.
In a statement, Abdul...
Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights...
ADVANCE EDITED VERSION
Distr. GENERAL
A/HRC/10/23
16 January 2009
Original: ENGLISH
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND REPORTS OF THE OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY-GENERAL
Summary
The present report, submitted pursuant to Human...
Analysis: The UN Human Rights Council
This story involves the UN Human Rights Council,
The Council, you must understand, is not a two-bit operation. It has sizeable headquarters in Geneva:
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Reversing the policy of his predecessor, George Bush, who shunned the Council,...