Let My People Sue: Help the Evacuees Regain Their Dignity in Court

Three months ago, 10,000 people were forcibly evicted by the Israeli Government from their privately owned homes and farms in 25 Jewish communities in Gush Katif, northern Gaza, and northern Samaria. A few days...

Canada urged to help resolve Palestinian refugee debate

Canada is uniquely positioned to change the terms of debate about Palestinian refugees and push for their resettlement, an Israeli researcher says. As the second-largest funder of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...

German Government: Indirect Support For The “Right Of Return”

One consistent aspect of cultural life in the United Nations-run Palestinian Arab refugee camps: the film screenings in the camps which motivate the refugees longing for a Palestinian "right to return" to villages that...

U.N. Agency Balks At Transferring Duties To Palestinians

A U.N. agency dedicated to the welfare of Palestinian Arabs is resisting Israel's suggestion that it hand over some of its responsibilities in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. The idea was raised by Israel's foreign...

Israel Asks for UNRWA in Gaza to be absorbed by the PA

FM Shalom meets with new UNWRA commissioner (Communicated by the Foreign Minister's Bureau) 7th November 2005 Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday (Sunday, 6 November) held his first meeting with United Nations Works and...

Alan Dershowitz’s View of Peace

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has written The Case for Peace (Wiley and Sons, NYC, 2005), soon to be translated into Hebrew, that is based on commonly held assumptions about the Middle East. The surprise...

Plo Leadership Condemns Israel For Shooting Attacks On Jews

Several Palestinian officials and media outlets late last night and this morning (Monday) distributed criticisms of Israel for yesterday's Palestinian terror attacks, saying the shootings hurt Palestinian interests, after Israel closed down roads in...

Official Palestinian authority media: Abbas’s own Fatah killed ‘settlers’

The Fateh-led Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) took credit for a drive by murder of two young women and a fourteen year old boy at a bus stop today just south of Bethlehem, at the...

Report #11: State of [evicted ] Gush Katif, Northern Gaza and Northern Shomron Communities

Commissioned by Israel Resource News Agency and the Center for Near East Policy Research Update on the 30,000 shekel burial for Netzer Hazani victim As a result of this report, and the fact that the researcher...

The Palestinian Broadcasting Media: A Survey Report

General Summary On the eve of PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas's planned visit to Washington, the broadcast media of the Palestinian Authority (PA) maintained a generally tough anti-Israeli and sometimes even anti- American posture, regarding talks...