Hamas’ UN schools

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=9405 That rocket launchers were found at U.N. facilities is hardly surprising. Fifteen years ago, the Gaza-based employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency held elections to determine its union leaders. Hamas took advantage...

Israel’s New Security Situation Following The Release of Arafat from his Compound

Arafat The Street Did Not Wait For Arafat Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 3) by Roni Shaked -- At 2:00 in the morning, Arafat faced the cameras, in his first press conference after the siege, and in...

Pikuach Nefesh Alert: A strategic approach

The Lubavitche Rebbe once commented that concessions to the Palestinian Authority, which works under the aegis of the Palestine Liberation Organization, represent a matter of Pikuach Nefesh- a threat to human life. The time has...

Years of Hope

Years of hope, Z.B. Begin, Ha'Aretz, September 6, 2002 A reminder September 9, 1993 Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel Mr. Prime Minister, The signing of the Declaration of Principles marks a new era in the history of the...

Ethical Indiscretion and Non Reportage of Lethal Threat to Israel

On Sunday, September 21st, 2008, the head of Israel Military Intelligence provided the first official report to the Israeli cabinet that the Israeli intelligence community had come to the definitive conclusion that all diplomatic...

The Palestinian Case Against BDS

Whereas the movement's spokespeople live in comfortable circumstances abroad, boycotts will result in increased economic hardships for actual Palestinians. Everyone appears to have an opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As I learned on a recent...

An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

ALLAN I. MENDELSOHN WASHINGTON, D.C. August 18, 2014 The Honorable Ban Ki-Moon Secretary General, United Nations 700 United Nations Plaza New York, New York Dear Mr. Secretary General: As one who was a teen ager with nothing but the greatest of hopes...

Why Don’t Western Elites Get the Middle East? Because They Think It’s Just Like...

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/11/18/why-don%e2%80%99t-western- elites-get-the-middle-east-because-they-think-it%e2%80%99s-just-like-them-sort-of/ I’ve come to realize a hitherto hidden dimension of why it is so hard for Western establishment figures (policymakers, journalists, and academics) to understand the Middle East. It is the conflict between the thirst...

Remembering One Victim of Arab Terror

Six years ago, Yehuda Haim got on a bus to work one sunny February morning in Jerusalem, and paid with his life. Friday marks six years to the day, according to the Hebrew calendar, since...