Slurring Israel: A Critique of the Annual US Human Rights Report on Israel

Ever since the days when the Carter administration required that the U.S. oversee human rights policies and practices that remain an integral part of the policies of all nations abroad, the U.S. State Department...

Israel Upset By Reports of Bashing at Palestinian Refugee Conference

Israel expressed its disappointment on Monday over its exclusion from an international conference on Palestinian refugees and over reports that the conference was used as a platform for Israel-bashing. The two-day conference, held in Geneva,...

How Sharon Can Implement His Plan Without Knesset Approval or Israel Finance Ministry Funding

Giora Eiland, head of the Israel National Security Council, working directly under the authority invested in him by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,informed the foreign media on June 20th, 2004 that Arik Sharon cannot...

A Tale of Two Incitements

25,000 religious Israeli citizens gathered on Saturday night, September 11th in the public square of a major city in Israel chanting slogans that called for the death of Israel's police minister and for the...

Israel’s Planned Expulsion of its Citizens From Their Homes Constitutes a Violation of International...

Law professor warns that Israel's planned expulsion of its citizens from their homes would violate international law which protects human rights and civil liberties. Eliav Schochetman, Hebrew Professor of Law Emeritus and Dean of the...

PBC Radio Describes Death of an Infiltrator as “Having Died a Heroic Death”

Muhammad Abbas's firing of three Gaza security officials has been seen by Western observers as one of several steps by Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen to show he is fighting violence and calls to violence,...

The Cease Fire That Wasn’t…

Following any negotiation, when the principals do not come out and meet the press at the end of an event, that is an indication that no agreement was reached. Avi Pazner, acting in his capacity...

Talking Peace and Executing Those Who Cooperate With Israel

Israel believed that Abu Mazen's election marked a new attitude in the Palestinian Authority towards human rights, but it appears that with regard to those who cooperate with Israel, the attitude is the same...

The Palestinian “Temporary Cease-Fire”: A Definition of Terms

The election of Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen)...has brought about a change in the Palestinian Authority's policy on continuing the "armed intifada." At the same time, the paramount interest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad is...

Sharon’s 10 premises for his withdrawal plan should be questioned

1. "The successful withdrawal from Southern Lebanon is a precedent for everything that will take place in Gaza and Northern Samaria after the withdrawal from these areas". Deputy prime minister, Minister Ehud Olmert, said in...