Dennis Ross, Now the Head of the “Washington Institute for Near East Policy”, Speaks...

Berkeley, California, October 16th --- Dennis Ross, chief negotiator of the Oslo agreement came to the UC Berkeley campus today to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Ross, who personally negotiated between Yasser Arafat and Ehud...

From the war in Vietnam to the war in Israel

David Ramati, injured in Friday's terror attack, spoke of the moments before the terrorist rammed into him near Efrat in Gush Etzion. "When I really looked at him, he actually started smiling, big smile, and...

Who stands to lose if the Israel High Court of Justice is not reformed?

There is no reason to impugn the integrity of vast majority those who demonstrate in Israel against judicial reforms of the High Court of Israel. At the same time, most people have no idea that...

PA and Other Arab Reactions to the Gaza Crisis

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/pa-and-other-arab-reactions-to-the-gaza-crisis The most striking aspect of ongoing Arab reactions to the latest Hamas-Israeli clashes is an act of omission: the Palestinian Authority (PA) and President Mahmoud Abbas are not calling for Hamas to stop firing...

UNRWA will not go away just because it loses US funds

The GAO, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of the US Congress, is scheduled to issue a massive report on the indiscretions of UNRWA during the month of February. That report will create...

When World Leaders Forget that the US Congress Must Foot the Bill

While the Bush-Sharon Summit focused on mutual threats (e.g. Iran and Islamic terrorism), it has highlighted a few basic misunderstandings - in Israel - concerning the US political system, US-Israel relations and Disengagement. For example,...

Anti-Semitism on the Temple Mount

By Zalman Shuval Since 1967, all Israeli governments have employed balanced, carefully thought out policies on the Temple Mount in order to avoid any major conflicts with the Muslim world, and this is still the...

Tikkun’s Rabbi Michael Lerner

The complete, unedited text of the message broadly distributed by Tikkun's Rabbi Michael Lerner Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 10:29:27 From: Rabbi Michael Lerner To: In the days when the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal were...

Israel Resource Review features an interview with the director of J Street in Israel...

Intereview with Yael Patir​, director of J Street​ in Israel​, August 2017 ​(Originally commissioned by Tikkun magazine) ​c​onducted by joseph matas​, joseph.matas@yahoo.com, a visiting journalist, assisted by David, his assistant. ​ Joseph: Can you tell us about...

CAMP JIHAD”: NEW FILM SHOWS PALESTINIAN KIDS TRAINED FOR WAR IN UNRWA REFUGEE CAMPS,...

winnipegjewishreview.com A new film directed by David Bedein, a special correspondent for the Wininpeg Jewish Review shows that Palestinian children in summer camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) are being...