Are Settlements Really the Major Obstacle to Peace?

For nearly two decades, the Palestinian Authority conducted peace talks with Israel while construction in the Jewish settlements was continuing. Every now and then the Palestinian leadership would complain about the construction, but it never made a...

Fact-Free Middle East Negotiations?

The dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority with regard to the freezing of Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank) is predicated on the assumption that Israel's border is the...

CANADA’S MINISTER PETER KENT PROTESTED TO PA FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUT PA INCITEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=468&sec=1&title=CANADA’S__MINISTER_PETER__KENT__PROTESTED_TO_PA_FOREIGN_MINISTER_ABOUT__PA_INCITEMENT_AGAINST_ISRAEL Peter Kent, Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas) Photo by Rhonda Spivak. Rhonda Spivak went to Deheishe Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem on August 11, 2010 and photographed this mural of a female suicide bomber...

Incisive Middle East News Analysis

"Anti-Semitism Today" Dr. Simcha Epstein made a presentation in the on-going series on post Holocaust Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Institute for Global Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Dr. Epstein, an author, teaches at...

News Analysis: Where Is Israel Now?

With regard to the possibility of face-to-face talks, it's all been a bit nonsensical. Because even if there were talks held, there would be no meeting of the minds. But at this point the...

News Analysis

One gets the feeling that if he could -- without losing his coalition -- Netanyahu would: cave on extending the freeze, that is. And so, it is the strength of those coalition members we...

News Analysis:”The Other Shoe?”

The "other shoe" I'm referring to is the end result of the whole business of extending the freeze, or part of the freeze, or whatever, so that face-to-face negotiations might continue. There is the...

Mr. Abbas, Tear Down This Wall! Reject the Notion of the Right of Return...

<!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> UNRWA Balata Refugee Camp, 2003. <!-- End #wrapmain #pri.article.articleTitle --> . While the world's headlines focus with exaggerated alarm on Israel's lifting of its ten-month building freeze within Jewish West Bank settlements, an issue of...

J Street’s Crooked Road — Lies and Misdemeanors

First published in The Jerusalem Post, September 28, 2010 Bravo to The Washington Times' national security correspondent Eli Lake for his exposé of J Street over the weekend. The so-called "pro-Israel" organization is bursting with...

Four questions for Mahmoud Abbas:PA president needs to explain his duplicitous behavior

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and historian Harold Brackman is a consultant to the center. In conjunction with his appearance at the U.N. General Assembly and meeting with President...