The Legacy of Shimon Peres: Durban Renewal

As Israel reels from the British academic boycott against it, the gathering of NGO's under the UN banner in 2001 in Durban, South Africa has not been forgotten. At that precedent-setting conference prominent Israeli, Palestinian...

Palestinians can choosea terror state if they so desire?

Remarks: FM Livni with US Sec'y of State Rice Remarks by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Communicated by the Foreign Ministry...

Commentary from Arlene Kushner

Posting: September 12, 2007 "There it is!" Olmert and company exposed with their intentions out front for all to see. We are not to "play into the hands of Hamas" by going into Gaza, you see. As...

Four Questions for Reporters to Ask in the New Year

On July 15th, 2007, Israel Resource News Agency placed four questions of consequence to the governments of the United States and Israel concerning the Fatah: 1. The Israel Ministry of Justice and the United...

Was The Mohammed A-Dura Case Fabricated?

Seven years have passed, yet the controversy over the death of the boy Mohammed a-Dura at Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip refuses to die down. Dozens of journalists, academics and investigators have examined the...

Anatomy of the “Nakba”

The Nakba - wrought by the founding of Israel and corresponding roughly to Israeli Independence Day - is the purported national "catastrophe" for the Palestinian Arabs. They had been commemorating the 60th Nakba for...

Lack of Authority and Unwarranted Tampering with International Law

Two distinct issues exist: the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of the Holy Places. Cambridge Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice and a renowned editor of...

A letter to a British Parliamentarian

The Rt. Honorable Kim Howells Minister of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office London I was directed to this site: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080624/debtext/80624-0002.htm#08062489000429 where I read the following exchange: "Crispin Blunt: I am grateful to the Minister for that answer, and agree...

Funerals End One Stage Of Israel, Lebanon War As Next One Begins

The funerals of two murdered Israeli POWs, Udi Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, borne on the shoulders of 12 noncommissioned officers of the Israeli army's Golani Brigade, concluded this stage of the 2006 Lebanon War. The...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: July 31, 2008 "Just Suppose" Political predictions are never written in stone, and certainly I make no claims that what I'm about to write here is anything other than a speculation. But I think it's...