Netanyahu Locked In Heated Debate With Obama

“Ambush” is the word that was widely used in the Israeli media to describe the reception that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was given at the White House on Tuesday. The Israeli media cited a...

UNICEF Issues Apology For Anti-Israel Brochure And Threatens Palestinian Client

Palestinian Media Watch recently uncovered an ad that ran on official Palestinian Authority television by a Palestinian youth organization, PYALARA (Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation), funded by UNICEF, showing an axe...

When Obama Meets Netanyahu

March 22, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/03/when-obama-meets-netanyahu <!-- PLAINTEXT STRIP BEGIN --> Send Comment RSS Share: <!-- PLAINTEXT STRIP END --> On learning that Barack Obama invited Binyamin Netanyahu to visit him on March 23,...

Thin Palestinian NGO narrative about 2 Palestinians killed after attempt to stab soldier

It was a stretch, but the Palestinian PCHR narrative, that fails to seriously address the Israeli accounting of what transpired, still came to the conclusion that Israel should be condemned. #1. What happened: 2 Palestinans killed after attempt...

America’s Shiny New Palestinian Militia

No matter how events play out, this story ends with U.S.-trained soldiers pointing their guns at Israel. ‘The stupidest program the U.S. government has ever undertaken” - last year that’s what I called American efforts...

Other Than Apartments in Jerusalem, What Else is Going on in the Middle East?

Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition),...

Should People Reconsider Support for the Infrastructure of an Entity at War with the...

Now and then, people remind me of my passionate advocacy for a Palestinian State more than thirty years ago. In a position paper delivered at a Weiss’s Farm Retreat in 1978, I spoke of a...

Rewriting history on the taxpayer dime

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/12/rewriting-history-on-the-taxpayer-dime/ The U.S. government, via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has provided support for a glossy 39-page "Palestine Guide Book." Just released by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Tourism, it declares on its...

Palestine: the Real Apartheid State In the Making

"Palestine"is an apartheid state in the making. "Israel Apartheid" Week is the time to publicize that fact. During Israel Apartheid Week, orchestrated on campuses around the globe, the time has come to put the shoe on...

UN Afghanistan report: UN blames Terrorists for Civilian Casualties – Unlike Standards Used For...

A little-noticed “United Nations’ Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict”, issued in January, which absolved allied coalition forces of culpability for civilian casualties in the almost decade long war against Taliban...