Navy Refuses To Disarm Vessel Headed To Gaza
President Barack Obama has announced that the U.S. will convene an international conference to stem arms flow to Gaza.
Next week, the representatives from the U.S., E.U., Israel and possibly Egypt will meet in Copenhagen,...
Can The Fatah Option Work in Gaza
Israel's three-week military operation in Gaza in December-January has raised the issue of the possible return of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party to Gaza to replace the Hamas regime. The...
Perpspective of Prof. Efraim Inbar
IMRA contacted Prof. Efraim Inbar to ask him about his proposal fr Egypt and Jordan to control the Gaza Strip and West Bank respectively (see below):
IMRA: It doesn't require a particularly fertile imagination to...
Hamas tried to hijack ambulances during war
PALESTINIAN civilians living in Gaza during the three-week war with Israel have spoken of the challenge of being caught between Hamas and Israeli soldiers as the radical Islamic movement that controls the Gaza strip...
Perspective on UNRWA and Terror
The pressure group Arab Media Watch has put out a statement claiming that my observation in my Daily Mail column yesterday, that
Hamas has intercepted dozens of aid trucks and confiscated food and medical supplies...
Olmert’s Legacy
Israel's daily newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, has revealed details of the meeting held between outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and U.S. special envoy George Mitchell. In the meeting Mr. Olmert detailed commitments that he had...
When is a Cease-fire is not a Cease-fire?
As journalists cover complex Middle East negotiations, wire services often interpret the lulls in hostilities as an armistice or a cease-fire, reminiscent in the western mind to the end of hostilities in World War...
Mitchell, A Mideast Envoy With A Tendentious Legacy
Following President Obama's appointment of former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine as his Middle East envoy, it may be instructive to remember the tendentiousness of George Mitchell's 2001 report titled:
"The Mitchell Report on...
The Holocaust Did not Begin in the Gas Chambers – it Began with Words
On this United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, words may ease the pain, but they may also dwarf the tragedy. For the Holocaust is uniquely evil in its genocidal singularity, where biology was inescapably...
Simple Questions for a Complex Situation
The Israeli-Hamas conflict, with its evocative images of human suffering, has engaged the hearts and minds of people the world over. Indeed, the death of any innocent - Israeli or Palestinian - is a...