MICHAEL IGNATIEFF IN WINNIPEG TELLS WINNIPEG JEWISH REVIEW HE SUPPORTS BUILDING OF MOSQUE AT...

What about building Global Centre for Peace instead? The Winnipeg Jewish Review was invited to a press conference held by Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff recently in the latter part of August while he was in...

Official Palestinian Radio News: The Voice of Palestine (V.O.P.) February 9th

Summary and Analysis The Voice of Palestine is hammering home the view that there will be no talks with Ariel Sharon unless he picks up where Ehud Barak left off in Taba. "From their two points...

Insight into the “Humanitarian Crisis” in Gaza

The situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Israel has given guarantees that there will be no humanitarian crisis: that sufficient supplies to prevent this will be allowed through crossings. This doesn't mean there will be...

UN Schools Serve Rocket Storage

The United Nations has acknowledged that its facilities in the Gaza Strip were storing Palestinian missiles and rocket. The UN Relief and Works Agency has reported at least two incidents in which its schools were...

PA Minister of Justice – Also Execute Land Dealers

IMRA interviewed Palestinian Authority Minister of Justice, Freih Abu Meddien, in English, on 31st August: IMRA: Do you see yesterdays' executions as setting a precedent for future cases or was it an exception? Meddien: Any crime...
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Anatomy of a Bad Iran Deal: A Preliminary Assessment

The lead editorial of the Washington Post on February 5, 2015, expressed the growing concern in elite circles with the contours of the emerging nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Russia,...

The Culpability of Egypt – if Israel Makes an Issue of it

The London-based newspaper Al-Hayat reported on September 5th that the kidnapped Israeli hostage, Gilad Shalit is now in Egypt as part of a deal to release him. The paper reported that Shalit was brought...

The Nakba Obsession: The Palestinian national narrative is the biggest obstacle to peace in...

A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations-the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted...

The Official Palestinian Authority Media Reports: Al Qaida, The End of Ramadan, Suicide Bombs,...

Al Qaida in Gaza: Quietly, the PA Moves Against Suspected Cell Amid pressure from the United States and the European Union, the Palestinian Authority is quietly moving to stop Al Qaida recruitment in the Gaza...

Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 5: Zionism in the Arab World and The...

Introduction/Personal note: Salomon Benzimra z”l submitted this summary barely two weeks before his untimely death on March 15, 2016. He passed away on a flight back from Israel after a mission to consult with Tzipi...