Israel, Jews and the Conflict in Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks

Following are representative items taken from textbooks published by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2017-2018 for use in grades 1-12 in all schools throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Several pieces were...

Redeployment – What Does That Mean?

The next round in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations deals with the redeployment issue. The Israelis want redeployment from a minimum amount of territory in Judea in return for a maximum effort to meet their security...

Evacuation From Umm el-Fahm Would Also Be Legitimate

"Would it be legitimate for the government to decide to evacuate Umm el-Fahm (on the basis of the compensation law for the residents of Gush Katif)? I think it would." So said the director of the...

Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code

Islam watchers blogged all weekend about news that a secret archive of ancient Islamic texts had surfaced after 60 years of suppression. Andrew Higgins' Wall Street Journal report that the photographic record of Koranic...

“Fighting That Persistent Lie”

We might have expected WikiLeaks exposure to kill it: the Obama claim that cooperation with Arab states was dependent upon an Israeli-Palestinian negotiated peace. But here we have it again, in somewhat different, and more...

Irrational insanity…writes Michael Kuttner

It has been one of those weeks again in which we have heard unbelievable utterances, read more misinformed media reporting and witnessed witless behaviour. Just when you think you my have seen it all, events...

Official PA radio news – the PBC radio Oct 25

Quote of the Day "Three new martyrs today, among them Nimr Youssef Maghneim of Jenin and Nidala Breiksa, stars of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, who were both struck and killed by fire from Israeli occupation forces...

Senator to probe UNRWA funding

MONEY provided by Australia to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is being used “for evil purposes”, Senator David Leyonhjelm said last week. The Liberal Democrats Senator has pledged to “start asking some...

Questions to the US government concerning current US Middle East Policy

Questions Sent today to  the US Government. Enclosed please find three  questions which we ask that you relate to by Saturday night , January 25, when our agency will submit  a journalistic critique to the...

Obama Doctrine: America Allies with Muslim Brotherhood to Promote Middle East ‘Stability’

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/06/16/obama-doctrine-america-allies-with-muslim-brotherhood-to-promote-middle-east-stability/ Here is what I wrote in October 2010, when the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood - Muhammad al-Badi - had just given a sermon calling for the overthrow of Egypt’s government (which happened four...