Canada, The Middle East Peace Process, UNRWA and “Right of Return”

Canada plays a unique and almost unreported crucial role in the Middle East Peace Process - holding the gavel of the RWG, the "refugee working group", which oversees the work of UNRWA, the United...

Report #10: State of Evicted Residents of Gush Katif, Northern Gaza and Northern Shomron...

A member of Moshav Netzer Hazani, Hezi Hazani (no relation to the man for whom it was named), 53, dropped dead on Tuesday in the market place in Netivot, where he and his wife...

Exit PA, Enter Egypt

Al Ayyam, Oct. 9, 2005 Seeking shelter from Palestinian gun battles. Executive Summary: Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to a virtual Egyptian takeover of the Gaza Strip and has invited other Arab regimes to plant...

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Problem

In the aftermath of World War II, when it became apparent that millions of destitute refugees were not going to be attended to by existing organizations, the United Nations saw fit to establish an...

Report #9: State of evicted Gush Katif, Northern Gaza & N. Shomron Communities

At the time of this writing (Sunday, October 9th, 3 p.m. Israel time), according to the residents of the Shirat Hayam Hotel in Ashkelon, they are about to be expelled today to other hotels...

Parents Furious As Education Ministry Passes On Bible Studies

Parents and teachers are furious with the Education Ministry's decision to allow principals of junior high schools to decide not to teach bible studies in the seventh grade or, alternatively, to elect to study...

The USA Will Not Finance PA Projects Named for Terrorists

The United States has found a new way to combat Palestinian terrorism: it will not extend any financial aid to renovation projects or other construction projects if they are named after terrorists who were...

Don’t Give Them Guns: Reviving a Slogan After More Than 1,000 People Murdered in...

It is hard to believe that under the Sharon government, after more than a thousand Israelis have been killed in the past five years of terrorism, opponents of the agreements with the Palestinians are...

Prepare the Flack Jackets

I turn your attention to the statement Ariel Sharon made to Shimon Shiffer in the Rosh Hashanah edition of Yediot Ahronot: "I will take," he promised, "a giant step towards peace." A giant step? If...

Report #8, State of Gush Katif, Northern Gaza and Northern Shomron Communities

Friday afternoon: Just when it appeared that the problem was solved, the Disengagement Authority apparently did not reach an agreement with the hotel after all, as a result of which, according to Israel Radio...