Israel’s vibrant democracy

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-vibrant-democracy/ By any objective standard, Israeli democracy is as robust and pluralistic as any in the world. There are no restrictions on any form of protest or advocacy, including very fierce and unpopular criticism of...

Freedom of Expression, UN Human Rights Council

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2851/freedom-of-expression- un-human-rights-council Part 1: Overview and Background: 1) By any objective standard, Israeli democracy is as robust and pluralistic as any in the world. There are no restrictions on any form of protest or advocacy, including very...

Will Palestinian Reconciliation Lead to a Hamas Takeover of the PLO?

http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=2&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID= 111&FID=443&PID=0&IID=11619&TTL=Will_Palestinian_Reconciliation_Lead_to _a_Hamas_Takeover_of_the_PLO ? PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal reached an agreement in Cairo on 22 December on national reconciliation and a strategic partnership. A new temporary leadership was formed for the PLO,...

Capitol Hill Diary: Should the US finance UNRWA “right of return” indoctrination?

Flashback to 1976. I was then escorted with a delegation of social work professionals to visit UNRWA facilities in Gaza. There, Dr. Eli Lasch,then the head of the Israel Civil Administration's Gaza health department, explained that...

Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor: Letter to New Israel Fund Board on Adalah participation...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2080&sec=2&title= Gerald_Steinberg_of__NGO_Monitor:_Letter_to_New_Israel_Fund_Board_on_ Adalah_participation_in_Apartheid_Week/BDS _ Letter to Daniel Sokatch, Rachel Liel, and board members New Israel Fund February 8, 2012 Dear Daniel, Rachel and other members of the NIF Board, As the NIF board meets in Israel, I am writing to you...

The Gaza Narrative: From Delegitimization to Antisemitism

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2078&sec=2 &title=The_Gaza_Narrative:_From_Delegitimization_to_Antisemitism Tucked away in a small building off the main street of Sderot, Israel, and just a few blocks from the Sderot Police Station and their infamous Rocket Museum, lies the home of the Sderot...

Op-ed: Anti-Israel BDS campaign hides its ultimate goal of eliminating the entire Jewish State

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticle PrintPreview/1,2506,L-4189646,00.html The annual Israeli Apartheid Week, dubbed “anti-Semitic hatefest” by Canadian author Howard Rotberg, is approaching again. As every year the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS ) campaign will play a key part in this...

What to Do About Syria

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/02/what-to-do-about-syria/ There is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something relatively low-cost and ineffective, indeed, precisely what...

Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons to counter Iran

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/saudi-arabia-to-acquire- nuclear-weapons-to-counter-iran/story-fnb64oi6-1226268171576 SAUDI Arabia could acquire nuclear warheads within weeks of Iran developing atomic weapons as the threat from Tehran triggers an arms race across the Middle East. In the event of a successful Iranian nuclear test,...

Haaretz: The Paper for Thinking People?

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2669/haaretz-newspaper Of the countless threats of Arab violence in the run-up to the November 29, 1947 Partition Resolution and in its wake, none has resonated more widely than the warning by Abdul Rahman Azzam, the...