Rafah Agreement: Israel Signs Away Sovereignty
With the Rafah agreement, which has not yet been signed, Israel is signing away her status as a sovereign nation.
A sovereign nation has two basic rights -- to control its borders and to self...
Homeless in the homeland
Calling Ehud Zinar intense is like calling the Negev dry.
Whippet-thin and darkly energetic, Zinar is a man on a mission, touring North America, speaking to community leaders, clergy and school children about his former...
Amir Peretz: Sign of a Social Revolution in Israel?
922 words PERETZ ASTONISHES
By David Bedein
THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION
The election of an Israeli Moroccan union leader, MK Amir Peretz as the new chairman of the Israel Labor Party, in which he ousted veteran Israeli Deputy...
UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?
Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....
Canada urged to help resolve Palestinian refugee debate
Canada is uniquely positioned to change the terms of debate about Palestinian refugees and push for their resettlement, an Israeli researcher says.
As the second-largest funder of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...
UJC (UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES) Brochure on Situation of the Evacuees
Facts About Israel's Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria
NUMBER OF SETTLEMENTS EVACUATED: Gaza Strip: 21 Northern Samaria: 4 NUMBER PERSONS EVACUATED: Gaza Strip: 8470 individuals from 1812 families Northern Samaria: 670 individuals...
Critics say: U.N. Agency’s Work Misleads Palestinians
November 11th, 2005
A 10-year-old boy maneuvers through a schoolyard in Jenin, a Palestinian refugee camp of about 15,000 - the largest in the West Bank. He has been told by family and friends that...
German Government: Indirect Support For The “Right Of Return”
One consistent aspect of cultural life in the United Nations-run Palestinian Arab refugee camps: the film screenings in the camps which motivate the refugees longing for a Palestinian "right to return" to villages that...
UNHCR will not Handle the Descendants of Refugees… Unlike UNRWA
This information was secured from Brenda Goddard, who is with the legal department at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva:
If a refugee situation continues for a long period of time -- as for example it has...
U.N. Agency Balks At Transferring Duties To Palestinians
A U.N. agency dedicated to the welfare of Palestinian Arabs is resisting Israel's suggestion that it hand over some of its responsibilities in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.
The idea was raised by Israel's foreign...