The Arab Lobby: The European Component

In the early 1980s, there was a palpable concern among staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of the looming rise of an Arab-American lobby aimed at challenging the pro-Israel community. The National Association of...

News Analysis

The Israeli government is waiting for the US government to put in writing what Clinton told Netanyahu verbally. Israel might have to wait a long time. Yesterday, when State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was asked about...

INSIDE VIEW: J STREET LOBBIES MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO SIGN THIS LETTER TO PRESIDENT...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=857&sec=3&title=INSIDE_VIEW:__J_STREET_LOBBIES_MEMBERS_OF_CONGRESS_TO_SIGN_THIS_LETTER_TO_PRESIDENT_OBAMA Jeremy Ben-Ami, Founder an dCEO of J-Street photo by Rhonda Spivak Ron Pundak, director of Peres Centre for Peace photo by Rhonda Spivak J-Street lobbyists go to Capital Hill, Washington D.C. photo by Rhonda Spivak Pundak of Peres Centre favours...

Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ opinions/reconsidering-the- goldstone-report-on-israel- and-war-crimes/2011/04/01/ AFg111JC_story.html We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights...

The other side speaks out

Together with the euphoria that many Israelis feel about the return home of Gilad Shalit, victims of terror are dealing differently. Granted, there have been a few who came out in support of the...

Palestinian Solidarity Day — The U.N.’s Annual Attempt to Turn Back the Clock

Notwithstanding alleged U.N. support for a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, at New York Headquarters Tuesday only the flag of the non-state of Palestine was flown alongside the U.N.’s own flag. The flag...

PA Admits To Security Force Corruption

www.menewsline.com The PA said it has determined that its security officers in the northern West Bank were exposed to corruption. Some of the officers were linked to the death of the governor of the northern...

Feeding the hand that bites you: Reconsidering aid to a Gaza regime at war...

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/feeding-the-hand-that-bites-you-reconsidering-aid-to-gaza-regime-at-war-with-israel/ During the second week of March, 2012, while the Gaza regime launched more than 300 aerial attacks against southern Israel, driving one million people to cower in shelters, Israel announced to the world that...

Palestinians Short of Ideas, Not Guns

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/13/palestinians-short-of-ideas-not-guns-abbas-peace-netanyahu-obama/ Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is complaining that Israel is making it difficult for his security forces to obtain weapons. As the New York Times reports, Abbas claimed yesterday in a meeting with members...

The Main Goal of the Palestinian Government

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3061/goal-of-palestinian-government The Palestinian government is in fact lying when it talks about a financial crisis; its main goal is to get Western and Arab donors to channel more funds to Ramallah. "Corruption in the Palestinian...