State of the Union Address on Foreign Policy: Careful Phrasing Conceals Disasters

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/02/state-of-union-address-on-foreign.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Rubinreports+(RubinReports) While the State of the Union message was overwhelmingly domestically oriented, the foreign policy sections were most interesting. I’ll review them here. The president began in the same neo-patriotic mode used in the second inaugural...

How US Military Aid to Fatah Actually Bolsters the Hamas

On February 5, 2013, the reconstituted US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa held a subcommittee hearing on the subject of "Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Threatening Peace Prospects”. Two senior expert witnesses from...

Comments on: “Victims of Our Own Narratives”

Dr. Arnon Groiss Member Advisory Council on the Israeli-Palestinian schoolbook research project http://israelipalestinianschoolbooks.blogspot.co.il Commissioned by The Council for Religious Institutions in the Holy Land Comments on: "Victims of Our Own Narratives" Report of Israeli and Palestinian Schoolbook Research Project Released February 4,...

Open letter to Prof. Bruce Wexler

Dear Bruce: I would like to share my thoughts and concerns about the Text Book Study in the light of the recent exchanges between Arnon and the Research Team, and my own notes to you...

Prof. Bruce Wexler’s Textbook Study Press Conference: A First hand report

Even before the press conference, three of the key advisory board members complained that they had not been able to evaluate the report ahead of time. http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5329&q=1 One of Prof. Bruce Wexler's conclusions: There is no...

Prof. Bruce Wexler’s Textbook Study Press Conference: A First hand report

Even before the press conference, three of the key advisory board members complained that they had not been able to evaluate the report ahead of time. http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=5329&q=1 One of Prof. Bruce Wexler's conclusions: There is no...

Softball Reporting:. Examining A NEWS INTERVIEW WITH FAYAD

On January 18, 2013, The Jerusalem Post magazine featured a parody of an interview with the non elected Palestinian Arab Authority Prime Minister Fayad, http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=36880 characterized by softball questions that provided Fayad with an opportunity...

Lack of Due Process; Press Conference on the New study of Palestinian Authority and...

Next Monday in Jerusalem, and next Wednesday, in Washington, the results of a new study on the subject of Palestinian Authority and Israeli textbooks, overseen by Yale Prof. Bruce Wexler and funded by the...

Softball Reporting:. Examining A NEWS INTERVIEW WITH FAYAD

On January 18, 2013, The Jerusalem Post magazine featured a parody of an interview with the non elected Palestinian Arab Authority Prime Minister Fayad, http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=36880 characterized by softball questions that provided Fayad with an opportunity...

Higher Education & Tolerance as Promoted by our Intended “Peace” Partners”¦writes Michael Kuttner

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/higher-education-tolerance-as-promoted-by-our-intended-peace-partners-writes-michael-kuttner/32003 A vital prerequisite for any meaningful and durable peace agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbours is a sustained effort to eliminate hate and delegitimisation, refrain from revisionist versions of history and educate present...