Assessment: Gaining Perspective on the Larger Picture in Jerusalem.
As events in the Middle East unfold, it is hard to gain perspective on the larger picture of what is developing. After forty years of Israel and twenty five consecutive years of full time...
US/Canadian Trained Palestinian Sharpshooters Implicated in Murder of Jewish Worshiper: IDF Characterizes Attack as...
On May 29, 2011. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a report which implicated four members of the second battalion of the US/Canadian trained NSF, the Palestinian National Security Force, in the April 24...
Why The Issue of Land Landed President Obama In Trouble With Israel,
A Muslim friend who I greatly respect wrote me that he doesn"t
understand why I've been complaining about Obama's speeches. I suggested that
the problem is he has been reading media coverage which tends to revolve...
WHAT HAPPENED TO GEORGE MITCHELL ?
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1146&sec=2&title=EDITORIAL:_WHAT_HAPPENED_TO_GEORGE_MITCHELL_
George Mitchell
Gershon Baskin
photo by Rhonda Spivak
The hills surrounding Beit Jalla in the West Bank
Photo by Rhonda Spivak
Location of the conference in Beit Jalla
Photo by Rhonda Spivak
George Mitchell resigned last week as Obama’s Special Envoy...
READ COMMENTARY MAGAZINE ON NAKBA DAY: UN FORCES DO LITTLE OR NOTHING TO STOP...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1169&sec=1&title=_READ_COMMENTARY_MAGAZINE_ON_NAKBA_DAY:_UN_FORCES_DO_LITTLE_OR_NOTHING_TO_STOP_BREACH_OF_ISRAEL'S_BORDERS
Photo of grafiti on wall in Deheishe Palestinian Refugee Camp with map of Palestine that wipes out Israel
photo by Rhonda Spivak
Nakba Day sign in Ramallah put up by PLO (see bottom of sign).Photo taken...
The New Arab Apartheid
From the link (Hebrew ×"×פרט×"×™×™×" ×"ערבי):
http://www.nrg.co.il/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=f2b4c1b55be76d1e6d7b777256ea0370&id=2428
May 14, 2011
The real “nakba,” which is the story of the Arab apartheid. Tens of millions, among them Jews, suffered from the “nakba,” which included dispossession, expulsion and displacement....
Iran Behind Israel Border Clashes
http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/iran-israel-syria-hamas/2011/05/17/id/396681
The Iranian regime called the political leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah to Tehran last month, to work out the details of an unprecedented series of protests they wanted them to launch along Israel’s border...
‘Nakba Day’ just the beginning: Sunday’s events on northern border caught IDF off guard;...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4068983,00.html
Events that involve enraged masses have a dynamic of their own, especially in the Middle East. They are akin to molten lava, shot out from the belly of a volcano with unexpected force...
ARE UNRWA SCHOOLS IN PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS REALLY TEACHING HOLOCAuST EDUCATION AND A WESTERN...
Swiss Ambassador Ruch
photo by Rhonda Spivak
Ambassador Jean-Daniel Ruch, Special Representative of Switzerland for the Middle East, said at a session at the recent J Street convention in Washington in March 2011 that in Gaza...
Hamas has real sponsors
The Fateh-Hamas decision to reconcile, form a joint government and hold elections seems to be a short-run maneuver that might have some very long-range consequences.
Fateh's motive seems to be to have a united front...