Incisive moments on a family trip : TO ISRAEL AND EGYPT …TO CELEBRATE MY...

My extended family returned recently from a trip to Israel and Egypt to celebrate our younger son's Bar Mitzvah. We are grateful and blessed that our dream trip was realized. We marked Noah’s becoming...

MICHAEL IGNATIEFF IN WINNIPEG TELLS WINNIPEG JEWISH REVIEW HE SUPPORTS BUILDING OF MOSQUE AT...

What about building Global Centre for Peace instead? The Winnipeg Jewish Review was invited to a press conference held by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff recently in the latter part of August while he was in...

Monograph: As Negotiations Resume: The Palestinian Authority Stand on the “Right of Return”

Mahmoud Abbas Of primary interest when examining the position of the Palestinian Authority with regard to the “right of return” is the stand of Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), president of the PA. Abbas’s position on...

NO INDICATION OF ABBAS POPULARITY IN RAMALLAH: WHERE IS THE MURAL OF ABBAS NEXT...

Mural of Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti on Wall near Ramallah, Qalandia checkpoint. All photos by Rhonda Spivak. Mural of Yasser Arafat painted on Wall near Ramallah, qalandia checkpoint Billboard glorifying Palestinian "martyr" with map of Israel...

Palestinian Authority Referred to the terror attack as a “military operation” .

Dr. Michael Widlanski is a specialist in Arab politics and communication whose doctorate dealt with the Palestinian broadcast media. He is a *former reporter, correspondent and editor, respectively, at The New York Times, The...

Is the US Training Israel’s Enemies?

There are strong reservations about the wisdom of the US training a Palestinian security force. Israel recently approved the delivery of Russian armored personnel carriers for the Palestinian Authority, while it continues to laud American...

STERN WARNING: Sol Stern believes the new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks will flounder over...

As Israel and the Palestinians prepare to resume direct talks for the first time in more than two years next week, Sol Stern dismisses them out of hand before they even get under way....

Refuting David Malovsky’s Comments in the Washington Post Concerning Palestinian Authority Education

In his recent article, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/23/AR2010082304204.html, David Makovsky writes: “The PA has begun reshaping the curriculum of Palestinian institutions that accredit imans, and screening is also being conducted to weed out school teachers who support Hamas...

Academic Brainwashing: Anatomy of Israel Higher Education, 2010

(Isracampus Translation From the Hebrew) By: *Ben Dror Yemini - Senior writer and Member of the Maariv Newspaper Editorial Board Original piece ran in Maariv on Aug,20, 2010 Israeli universities were not established with the sole purpose...