What to do about Palestinian textbook incitement: Israel’s parties respond

Over the past three years, the Center for Near East Policy Research headed by journalist David Bedein conducted three comprehensive studies of all Palestinian Authority school textbooks used by the UN Relief and Works...

Hamas. Abu Mazen and the Cease Fire

The Hamas-Israeli ceasefire agreement in Gaza (tahdi'a; lit. “calmingâ€Â), together with the decision by Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to renew the “national dialogueâ€Â with Hamas, inaugurated a new and promising phase...

Competing World Views Tear A “Peace Process” to Pieces

The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail. Special Envoy George Mitchell explains: "We are all well aware that there remains...

Askar – UNRWA: Cradle of Killers

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“Israel knowingly undertaking risk terrorist organizations will exploit cease-fire to rearm and rebuild infrastructure”

As part of the cease-fire announced this morning (Sunday, 26 November 2006), Israel has begun withdrawing all of its forces from the Gaza Strip. This decision was taken in an effort on Israel's part both...

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas Fight COVID-19: the First Month Overview and Initial Insights

The objective of this study is to present an overview and initial insights regarding the preventive measures taken by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas to check the spread of COVID-19 during the first...

Who murdered Asher and Yonatan?

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=310727 On April 2, the Israeli military court at Ofer Base convicted Wa’al al-Arja of murdering my son Asher and grandson Yonatan. The murders were committed on Friday, September 23, 2011. On that day, Arja,...

A Profile: When A Social Worker Who helps Terror Victims Becomes a Terror Victim

Scenes of terrorism in newspapers and television have the same effect on me: they inspire shock and anger. There are the pictures of the ambulance crews, the Chevra Kadisha (Jewish burial Society) workers literally...

The EU and their Questionable Allocations in the Middle East

Those even-handed Euros are always at the forefront of the drive for Mideast peace. The European Union continues to pour oodles of aid money into an economically and politically corrupt Palestinian Authority. Less known is...

Preventing a Terror State

The Bush administration and the Olmert government have determined that - in order to serve their perceived goals in the Middle East - a Fatah-led Palestinian state should be established in Judea and Samaria....