Lebanon (and UNRWA) continue treating Pal Syrians like dirt

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/05/lebanon-and-unrwa-continue-treating-pal.html#.U2wbohXn-Ul AFP reports: Human Rights Watch and a UN refugee agency expressed concern on Tuesday that Lebanon was blocking Palestinians fleeing Syria from entering the country. UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said it was “concerned...

CIA Resumes Training PLO Security Forces

A team of CIA monitors and advisers on security have arrived in Cairo, and will soon move to the Gaza Strip, senior Palestinian Authority sources told The Jerusalem Post. The team will advise the...

Rabbi Sacks’ speech in House of Lords debate on the Middle East

The following is a video and transcript of Rabbi Sacks’ speech in a House of Lords debate on the Middle East from 13th October 2016. My Lords, allow me if I may to use this...

Brith Sholom Media Watch Alert #846, 3/19/17

“History Is What the Mainstream Media Helps Readers Believe That It Is” Historians like to say “History is what historians say that it is,” but in the real world history is what the mass of...

Failed Foreign Policy

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13776#.UieKMxXn_IU Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win - rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one's morality. Yet, these latter...

Trump and United Nations aftershocks

It was predicted and now it has come to pass that the election of Donald Trump and the infamous UN resolution sponsored by New Zealand and friends would trigger tremors. Not only have they set...

Editor’s Report from Zurich: A Forgotten Story of a Former Synagogue and the Day...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3831&sec=2&title=Editor%27s_Report_from_Zurich:_A_Forgotten_Story_of__a_Former_Synagogue_and_the_Day_the_Jews_were_Expelled Last winter in February, I was in Zurich Switzerland for my first time staying at the Ambassador Hotel on my way home from Israel. I had one day there and I began wandering around...

Passover road map

It may in the end have taken forty years to get here but the road map couldn’t have been clearer. In the first recorded use of a GPS, the Hebrew slaves left Egypt guided by...

Can the Arab World Cope with the Coronavirus?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The coronavirus pandemic caught the Western world unprepared despite all the technology and medical advances available in those countries. What about Iran and the Arab world? How are they coping? These dictatorial states...

Frozen in time, Addicted to pity

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Frozen+time+addicted+pity/3371479/story.html Refugees? Canadians, even if their families have lived here for centuries, know something about refugees. We know Hungarians, we know Vietnamese, we know many others. We admire their energy and their accomplishments. Observing them...