Ben Zion Netanyahu, the Mufti and the U.S. election of 1946

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/21212/ When I as a high school student at Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia in the 1960’s, our high school history teacher, Dr. Harold Gorvine, did everything that he could to make history come alive...

U.S. Blocks Israel-GCC Ties

Israel has determined that the United States was trying to block relations with the Gulf Cooperation Council. A senior official responsible for relations with the Arab world said the administration of President Barack Obama was not encouraging...

Fayyad “ready to resign”

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=517945 RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Thursday announced he would resign if that was the will of the people, amid growing protests across the West Bank over the rising cost...

Education system commemorates Gush Katif: A dark chapter in Israeli history

This week, the education system set aside a day to commemorate the uprooting of Gush Katif, a significant event in Israel's history. In December 2003, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced the disengagement plan, a...

Slippery slope

Once started, a disastrous chain of events will inevitably follow and will be almost impossible to stop. That is what happens when the slippery slope syndrome kicks in with a vengeance. We have witnessed it in...

Is the Temple Mount in Danger?

The Moslem month of Ramadan is scheduled to begin in another three weeks, and hundreds of thousands of Moslems will throng to the Temple Mount, as every year, to attend the special prayers...

The Decline of the Palestinian National Movement

Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, who have intimately involved with the PLO negotiations team for more than a decade, have written a devastating piece in the New Yorker, entitled The Decline of the...

From Welfare to Warfare

http://www.meforum.org/4766/from-welfare-to-warfare As Operation Protective Edge enters its third week, we have now seen four incidents in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas that have focused attention on UNRWA (United Nations Relief and...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (May 15- May 21, 2019)

On May 15, 2019, Nakba Day events were held in the Gaza Strip with the format of the weekly return marches. About 10,000 Palestinians participated, somewhat more than the recent weekly average. Hamas operatives,...

Ben Gurion feedback to the Reform Movement 47 years ago was prophetic

In 1970, during my first months in Israel, I lived with two fellows who were learning at HUC, the Hebrew Union College. They very much wanted to live in Israel. Yet they and their fellow Reform...