The Nakba Obsession: The Palestinian national narrative is the biggest obstacle to peace in...
A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations-the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted...
EDITORIAL: CANADA INVOKES SEMA AGAINST IRAN
I had never heard of the Special Economic Measures Act until Liberal Member of Parliament and Former Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, who is the chair of the Responsibility to Prevent Coalition started...
Israeli distrust of the Palestinian security services
Israeli security forces show great suspicion toward the Palestinian security
apparatus in the West Bank despite the fact that they battle Hamas and were
trained by the U.S. General Dayton. Israel assesses that a scenario of
another...
‘Israel interfering in U.S. efforts in West Bank’: Report submitted to U.S. House Committee...
A report by a U.S. government watchdog has found that the Israeli government's conduct in recent years - including delaying the transfer to Palestinian security forces of AK-47 rifles, radios, vehicles and uniforms -...
Why Are the Palestinians Opposed to Ending the Occupation?
Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi is a senior researcher of the Middle East and radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is a co-founder of the Orient Research Group Ltd....
Constructive Clarity in Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
MK Ze’ev Binyamin Begin (Beni Begin) is currently Minister without Portfolio and a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu's forum of seven senior ministers. Currently serving his fourth term, he first served in the Knesset...
OVER 137,000 SIGN PETITION INITIATED BY REISMAN TO FREE SAKINEH
Former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Minister of Women’s Affairs of Iran Mahnaz Afkhami, actor Michael Douglas, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, and singer Annie Lennox, are among the over 137,000 people...
It Happened Again:More East Jerusalem Arabs Tell Me that They Prefer Israel Over the...
Pollsters Yaacob Shamir and Khalil Shakiki
Photo by Rhonda Spivak.
Carob juice vendor outside Damascus Gate, Old City, East Jerusalem. (Note: the person in this photo was not interviewed.)
Photo by Rhonda Spivak.
Shopkeeper in East Jerusalem's Arab...
Invite Investigative Journalist David Bedein To Address Your Community
After 15 years of social work practice & 27 years of journalism: Human Insight Behind the News in Israel.
Since 1987, Founder. Israel Resource News Agency, www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com(Purpose: to help foreign press coverage of Israel)
Since 2005, President,...
JINSA EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER THE U.S. TRAINING OF PALESTINIAN ARMY
JINSA has long expressed concern about military skills being transmitted by the U.S. to a Palestinian Authority military force while the Palestinian government remains openly hostile to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. The...