U.S. to Legitimize U.N. Human Rights Council for Three More Years

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/333240/us-legitimize-un-human-rights-council-three-more-years-anne-bayefsky The Obama administration was reelected today for a second three-year term to the U.N.’s top human-rights body, the Human Rights Council, with substantially fewer votes than human-rights heavyweights United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Côte d’Ivoire,...

100 Hamas Rockets Targeting Israeli Schoolchildren

http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=949&q=3 Photos: Direct hit in Netivut home, Monday morning 12.11.12, later on a direct hit in a ceramics factory in Netivot. Daniel Hagbi/Sderot Media Center It was a daunting, dismal weekend for Israel’s south, particularly for...

Fill your sandbags

I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama's re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” - as Deputy Prime...

Israel and U.S. on a Collision Course?

Some 57 percent of Israeli Jews preferred Romney, only 22% Obama (in my sector of American Israelis it was even more lopsided, a full 85% having cast absentee ballots for the challenger, only...

Washington’s Failure to Rein in UNRWA

General Assembly resolution 194 of December 11, 1948, offers two options, repatriation and resettlement, to achieve the reintegration of the Palestinian Arab refugees "into the economic life of the Near East." Yet,...

UNRWA’s Self-serving Agenda

Dr Uri Resnick currently serves as the Deputy Consul General for the Israel Embassy in Los Angeles. Previously, Dr. Resnick previously served as the head of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Division as...

Where Would Hezbollah Be Without the EU?

The EU has been here before. During the same period they came up with their false wall-of-separation within Hezbollah, they they did the same thing with Hamas. The fiction disappeared in Europe because it...

No Change in the Palestinian Position on the Right of Return

http://jcpa.org/article/no-change-in-the-palestinian-position-on-the-right-of-return/ Vol. 12, No. 25 5 November 2012   Claims that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas - in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TV on Nov. 2, 2012 - had apparently relinquished the “right of return”...

The Legal Basis of Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58871 The Legal Basis of Israel’s Naval Blockade of GazaProf. Ruth Lapidoth, July 18, 2010 Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 10, No. 4 http://jcpa.org/article/the-legal-basis-of-israel%E2%80%99s-naval-blockade-of-gaza/ -The relations between Israel and Hamas are in the nature of armed conflict. Nowadays no...

The Palestinian Guy Fawkes

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/the-palestinian-guy-fawkes/264529/ Today is Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates the plot by a group of English Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I along with it. The plot was disrupted on...