New School Books Omit Israel: New Report on PA l School Textbooks
JERUSALEM - A new range of textbooks used in Canadian-funded Palestinian schools has failed to fulfill promises to the international community to modify Palestinian hostility to the Jewish presence in Israel and promote peace...
The Continuing EU Role in PA Education
Herb Keinon's Jerusalem Post news report of November 2, 2001, indicating that "E.U. money has been used for Palestinian textbooks", was refuted by Ambassador Giancarlo Chevallard (Head of the Delegation of the European Commission)...
A Profile: When A Social Worker Who helps Terror Victims Becomes a Terror Victim
Scenes of terrorism in newspapers and television have the same effect on me: they inspire shock and anger. There are the pictures of the ambulance crews, the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish burial Society) workers literally...
The Rabbi Who Favors a Binational State
Viewers of CNN news probably are familiar with Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the tall, thin bearded man who places himself before Israeli bulldozers on their way to demolish Palestinian homes or olive groves. There he...
How Is Israel to Respond When They Attack Our Airports?
On Monday, US Secretary of State Colin Powell will deliver a speech at the University of Louisville in which it is expected he will set forth an American plan for peace between Israel and...
In the Shadow of 1914: The Current Situation
With each passing day, the political landscape across the globe looks increasingly like August 1914. Then, it took only the assassination of an Austrian archduke by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist to ignite the First World...
When Christians and Jews Prayed Under Fire in Bethlehem
As fighting continued in Bethlehem, the Israel and Palestinian communist parties distributed a memo to the media on the morning of Monday, October 22, in which they informed the press that leading Christian clerics...
Yusuf Abu Snena – Headlines of his Sermon on Friday, 26th October as Broadcast...
Yusuf Abu Snena is a religious preacher at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and and an official of the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs.
"More than 50 were killed during the last week on...
The Double Message of the Israeli Government
It goes without saying that there is universal disappointment with Israel's information policies.
The problem is not the lack of funds or professional resources at the disposal of the Israeli government.
The problem remains the double...
Public Condemnation; Private Glee
Executive Summary
Palestinian press treatment of the Islamic suicide attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 was a prime example of the power the Palestinian Authority wields over newspapers and media. Both PA-owned...