Palestinian Authority

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...