Policy Debate – A Matter of Connecting The Dots

INTERNET ADDRESS: imra@netvision.net.il Website: http://www.imra.org.il Dividing Jerusalem and putting the Old City under international administration will bring conflict - not peace. Israel has to control the Jordan Valley in any deal with the Palestinians. American guarantees that a Palestinian...

ISRAELI COURT REJECTS POLICE APPEAL AND RELEASES JEWISH SUSPECT TO HOUSE ARREST

TEL AVIV -- In a case that has highlighted the recruitment and interrogation techniques of the Israeli Security Agency and its corroboration with the justice system, an Israeli court rejected an appeal by police...

Competing World Views Tear A “Peace Process” to Pieces

The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail. Special Envoy George Mitchell explains: "We are all well aware that there remains...

The Gaza Strip: Why Is Washington Sticking Its Head in the Sand?

The US Administration, which just forced Israel and the Palestinian Authority to enter direct peace negotiations, seems to have completely forgotten about the Gaza Strip. Perhaps Washington is deliberately sticking its head in the...

Mr. Abbas, Tear Down This Wall! Reject the Notion of the Right of Return...

<!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> UNRWA Balata Refugee Camp, 2003. <!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> . While the world's headlines focus with exaggerated alarm on Israel's lifting of its ten-month building freeze within Jewish West Bank settlements, an issue of...

News Analysis: “Playing the Game”

A article yesterday (written by Sheera Frankel in the Miami Herald) said: "The Obama administration has secured pledges from senior Mideast leaders to continue peace negotiations until after next month's U.S. midterm elections, largely to...

WEALTH FOR THE NEXT GENERATIONS

In the 1970s, a huge quantity of oil was found in Norway. Norway was then an unsophisticated fishing country with a fairly modest economy. A number of courageous Norwegian MPs looked out for the general...

Benny Morris: “The 1948 War Was an Islamic Holy War”

https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#search/middle+east+forum/12c06c8e5b7552af MiddleEast Quarterly Summer 2010, pp. 63-69 (view PDF) Benny Morris is professor of history in the MiddleEast Studies Department at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Be'er Sheva, Israel. For many years, his academic...

Iraq – A Province of Iran?

http://www.danielpipes.org/ 9790/iraq-province-of-iran After American forces leave Iraq at the end of 2011, Tehran will try to turn its neighbor into a satrapy, i.e., a satellite state, to the great detriment of Western, moderate Arab, and...

Iran Behind Israel Border Clashes

http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iran-israel-syria-hamas/2011/05/17/id/396681 The Iranian regime called the political leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to Tehran last month, to work out the details of an unprecedented series of protests they wanted them to launch along Israel’s border...