Missing context for terror attacks in Eilat: Egypt demanded Israel cede Eilat in 2006

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1435&sec=2&title=MISSING_CONTEXT_ FOR__TERROR_ATTACKS_IN_EILAT:EGYPT_DEMANDED_ISRAEL_CEDE_EILAT_IN_2006 Much of the media missed the context of the attacks conducted Thursday morning, north of the Israeli port city of Eilat. These attacks may portend the genesis of the next stage of the Arab-Israeli war,...

Looking Back, From Addis Ababa To Crown Heights

http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt /looking_back_addis_ababa_crown_heights On Aug. 19, 1991, a car accident in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn launched a perfect storm of violence, transforming a longstanding resentment among some blacks of Jews in general and neighborhood chasidim...

Did the White House ‘Cleanse’ References to Jerusalem, Israel From Its Web Site?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-the-white-house- cleanse-references-to-jerusalem-israel-from-its-web-site/ On Tuesday, The Weekly Standard’s deputy online editor, Daniel Halper, made a noteworthy charge against the White House. Following an article in which he discussed the ongoing debate over which country the U.S. believes Jerusalem...

Telling It Like It Wasn’t

http://www.thejewishweek.com/print/18829 In iconic New York Post page one photo, Isaac Bitton lies injured on Crown Heights street with his son cowering next to him. Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991...

The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps. Of...

An Open Letter to the Government of Israel: Stand Proud and Defiant against Turkish...

Genocide Prevention Program & Jerusalem Center for Genocide Prevention I am an epidemiologist specializing in the investigation of the role of incitement of all kinds as early warning signs, predictors, promoters and catalysts for conflict,...

Palestinians Push for 1947 lines – not 1967 lines:Once again, the UN Partition Plan...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1417&sec= 1&title=Palestinians_Push_for_1947_lines_%EF%BF%BD_not_1967_lines: Once_again,_the_UN_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine (Frank. M. LOEWENBERG is a professor emeritus at Bar-Ilan-University in Israel. He was born in Germany and now lives, together with his wife, in Efrat, a town 22 kilometers south of Jerusalem. At the...

Urgent NGO Appeal to End Syria’s Ramadan Massacre

http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2. aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1330815&ct=11106989 H. E. Laura Dupuy Lasserre President, Human Rights Council United Nations Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10 Switzerland Aug. 9, 2011 Dear Madam President, We, an international coalition of non-governmental and human rights organizations, urge the UN Human Rights Council to end...

UNRWA and Alternatives for Palestinian Refugees

http://aijac.org.au/news/article/unrwa-and-alternatives-for-palestinian-refugees There are 1.6 million people in the Gaza Strip, most of them in UNRWA (United Nations Relief Works Agency) “refugee” camps. With support from more than 35 major Western democracies, UNRWA could be dealing with...