Why Does Hamas Want War?

http://www.danielpipes.org/14574/israel-hamas-war Politicians start wars optimistic about their prospects of gaining from combat, Geoffrey Blainey notes in his masterly study, The Causes of War ; otherwise, they would avoid fighting. Why, then, did Hamas just provoke a...

CBS under fire for ’60 Minutes’ segment attacking Israel

http://freebeacon.com/journalistic-malpractice/ Christian leaders, Middle East experts, and observers on Capitol Hill are crying foul on a CBS News report that they say erroneously blamed Israel for the persecution and migration of Palestinian Christians. The report by...

Palestinian Authority Teachers’ Guides: Examples of Conflict-Related Indoctrination By Arnon Groiss (January...

Indoctrination in a Nutshell for Grade-2 Students: "Preparation: The Teacher will tell a short story about our homeland, Palestine: 'My grandfather used to live in a beautiful village in Haifa. He was working...

The US will not Break off Contact Yet it Defines it as a Terror...

US Response to PA Bush: We won't replace Arafat and we won't close PLO offices Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 4) by Shimon Shiffer -- The US does not plan to close the PLO offices in Washington and...

The Future of an Illusion: A piece of paper will not bring peace to...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. Since the Oslo Accords of 1993, 17 years of efforts under three American presidents and...

Incisive Commentary

Posting: June 6, 2008 "Shifting" The situation. Sometimes I see us simply going in the most frustrating circles, but now (very tentatively) I see a shift in some of what we're dealing with. We might start with...

US aid to PA education without conditions?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MEP_programsandprojects.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MEP-narrative-document_FINAL.pdf

Israeli Checkpoints Stop Terrorists, not Elections

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3695/israeli-checkpoints-palestinian-elections Is it true that Palestinians cannot hold new elections because of Israeli security measures? This is a claim, often made in the U.S., Canada and parts of Europe, is that the Palestinians have not been...

Abbas Embraces Hamas

Today, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Ahmad Qreia called for coordination with Israel concerning the withdrawal from Gaza. Qreia's remarks, broadcast on PBC television, followed a meeting between him and British Foreign Minister Jack...

P.A. Official Khatib Says Any Pal. Who Murders a Jew, Yesterday, Today, or Tomorrow,...

http://zoa.org/2014/01/10227937-p-a-official-khatib-says-any-pal-who-murders-a-jew-yesterday-today-or-tomorrow-must-be-released/ he Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to a recent declaration by a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official, Ashraf Khatib, that Israel must free all jailed Palestinian terrorists, even if they have murdered...