Washington Institute Report: U.S. Funding Hamas Groups
A report by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy documents that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided funds to institutions controlled by Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
Commentary from Arlene Kushner
Posting: August 27, 2007
"Dose of Reality"
Avi Dichter, Minister of Public Security, today said on Army Radio that Egypt's failure to stop the flow of weapons into Gaza is tantamount to support for Hamas.
"Any rational...
Genesis of an Anti-Semitic State
Imagine, if you would, that a nascent nation state, somewhere in the world, was in formation that had taken on these features:
* Its new constitution would not allow for any juridical status for Judaism....
Soccer Terror: Honoring a Killer on the Soccer Field
Last Wednesday, August 15th, Al Hayat Al Jadida, the official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, carried what the western reader would regard as an unusual news item: A soccer tournament had been held in...
UN Resolution 1701 Compromised
In a declassified report released this week and published by the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center located at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), security officials make an official claim that...
Arlene Kushner News Analyis from Jerusalem, Israel
Posting: August 17, 2007
"Duplicity, duplicity"
News has broken that Olmert and Abbas have been meeting to work out a framework for the "core" issues of refugees, Jerusalem and borders before the conference proposed by Bush...
The Israeli WASP Factor
Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu was reelected as party head with 73% of the vote. Netanyahu, who has served as Deputy Foreign Minister, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Prime Minister of Israel, beat off a...
Ehud Barak, Draft Dodging and Ehud Olmert’s sons
Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made an unusual policy statement, ordering the Israel's military establishment was going to "take steps to reduce the level draft-dodging" amongst healthy young men of draft age...
Genesis of an Anti-Semitic State
Imagine, if you would, that a nascent nation state, somewhere in the world, was in formation that had taken on these features:
Its new constitution would not allow for any juridical status for Judaism.
Jews would...
Incisive Commentary from Arlene Kushner, Augu. 5th-10th, 2007
Posting: August 10, 2007
"Our IDF"
I want to return here to the issue of soldiers who refused to participate in evicting Hevron residents from the marketplace, Mitzpe Shalhevet.
The story as it was widely presented, was...