Israel Balks at German Ship Deal; Readies International Bid

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140517/DEFREG04/305170025/Israel-Balks-German-Ship-Deal-Readies-International-Bid TEL AVIV - Israel is backing away from a long-anticipated ship deal with Germany after failing to secure Berlin’s commitment to share some of the costs of the estimated $500 million buy. Instead, defense and...

Ambassador Dermer and United States-Israel Relations

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6993 In an address to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington on May 1, 2014, Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, spoke at length about a number of subjects on...

To the Ben Gurion University Board of Governors: Concerned about Israel’s image in the...

A number of faculty at Ben Gurion University have traveled abroad, lending their voices to the growing campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Others helped to make the same case in writings and...

A Briefing on Capitol Hill with David Bedein: Is UNRWA Part of the Problem...

PRESENTS​ ​A Briefing on Capitol Hill with David Bedein:Is UNRWA Part of the Problem or the Solution *David Bedein is an investigative reporter and social work professional who has covered the UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps for...

NGO FUNDERS OF UNRWA – Examined, SPECIAL CENTER FOR NEAR EAST POLICY RESEARCH MONOGRAPH

UNRWA works closely with a wide range of partners - from the smallest local NGOs to sister UN organisations with global mandates, each with unique resources and strengths - in order to deliver the...

May 15: Nakba or defeat?

http://www.arabnews.com/news/570476 A few weeks ago, many people in the Arab world heard a name, Joshua Teitelbaum, an Israeli senior fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Goldman visiting associate professor at...

Palestinian Reconciliation and the Rising Power of Hamas and Islamic Jihad: An Iranian Windfall

http://jcpa.org/article/palestinian-reconciliation-and-the-rising-power-of-hamas/ Vol. 14, No. 14 May 14, 2014 Fatah and Hamas are continuing to talk in an attempt to translate the reconciliation agreement, signed between the sides on April 23, 2014, into a series of operative...

Amnesty Researcher Admits That Palestinian ‘Eyewitnesses’ Often Lie

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/09/amnesty-researcher-admits-that-palestinian-eyewitnesses-often-lie/ Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty field investigator, wrote an interesting article about the challenges of fact finding in war situations. One of her main points is that eyewitnesses are often unreliable. For example: In Gaza, Lebanon, Libya,...

Veteran Mideast reporter ridicules Maan article that Israeli officials in secret Cairo visit

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=63827 Veteran Mideast reporter Mark Lavie, who recently returned home to Tel Aviv after two years in Cairo, advised IMRA that he gets a good laugh from reports (see below) like this. Israel's entire embassy staff...

US spies vindictive on Israel

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4518128,00.html The second Newsweek article on Israel's alleged spying efforts in the US, titled "Israel’s Aggressive Spying in the US Mostly Hushed Up", embarrasses its author and sources almost more than the original piece published...