Call me Harry

Towards the end of last year, I attended a diplomatic conference in Jerusalem where attendees from the diplomatic corps, media and students of international affairs were present. Representing a wide cross-section of opinion it was...

The False Promise of Iraqi-Israeli Peace

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: No one should be misled by the revelation that several Iraqi delegations visited Israel in 2018 into optimism about Iraqi-Israeli relations. Peace with Iraq remains very far away. Iraq is simply the...

Apartheid, Zionism And The J Street Syndrome

A friend of mine was a prominent rabbi in South Africa before he emigrated to Israel. Prior to the fall of the apartheid regime, he went on a speaking tour in America. His subject...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (January 23 – 29, 2019)

This past week there was a relatively high level of controlled violence during the Friday "return march." The violence consisted of throwing stones, hand grenades and IEDs at IDF forces, damaging the security fence...

Group raises alarm over UNRWA’s anti-Israel incitement within its Jerusalem schools

Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighborhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that...

UNRWA in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Chaos – English

This video is about UNRWA in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Chaos UNRWA in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Chaos English from David Bedein on Vimeo.

The New Yorker hit piece on Hebron

Last week, Masha Gessen at The New Yorker published a ridiculously one-sided article about Hebron. It started off this way: The stories of Hebron are the stories of the absent and the unseen. They are the stories...

Has the Trump administration softened up Israel for the kill?

The US Congress did the right thing, and commissioned its own independent GAO investigation of the school books used by the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA to educate the new generation. Full disclosure: Our news...

Muhammad Sawalha, senior Hamas operative living in London, continues participating in Hamas-supported political activities

Muhammad Kazem Sawalha, a senior Hamas operative living in London, continues his participation in Hamas political activities for recently participated in a conference in Istanbul which opposed Mahmoud Abbas' dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative...