From Israel: Yom Yerushalayim and the Fight Rages!!

Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) celebrates the Israeli reunification of Jerusalem on the 28th of Iyar in the course of the Six Day War in 1967. In course of Jerusalem’s long history it has been divided...

Follow Up Report Needed: The Palestinian Security Forces

At a time when officials in the Israel defense establishment have advised the Israeli government to hand over more authority  to the PSF, the Palestinian Security Forces, the time has come to examine if there are inherent...

The Palestinian Security Forces and the Second Intifada

Presentation given at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on July 24th, 2003 (Presentation hosted by the Center For Near East Policy Research and the Israel Resource News Agency) Copyright © Gal Luft Introduction In the period...

How US Military Aid to Fatah Actually Bolsters the Hamas

On February 5, 2013, the reconstituted US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa held a subcommittee hearing on the subject of "Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: Threatening Peace Prospects”. Two senior expert witnesses from...

What is the difference between the Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research and...

While other organizations focus only on PA terror, PA media, or PA text books, the Bedein Center focuses on the total picture: 1) We challenge those who fund and conceptualize the war curriculum for the...

News report about the US funded PSF, the Palestinian Security Forces

Commentary from David Bedein: The following news report about the US funded PSF, the Palestinian Security Forces, contains some important aspects Comments from senior Israeli security people that warn about future confrontations with the UN trained...

Wall Street Journal Editorial , Dec. 14 2023: BIDEN ENDANGERS ISRAEL

President Biden made headlines by declaring on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has to change.” As is typical with the President, his subsequent remarks were hard to follow, but many heard them...

How to make the most of the israeli-lebanese maritime deal

After years of stalling and hedging, a major economic collapse in Lebanon, multiple unstable governments in Israel, and threats of violence, the United States has successfully brokered a maritime border agreement between Beirut and...

Palestinian Authority Education: No Room for a Two-State Solution

By David Bedein                 Research: Dr. Arnon Groiss    Palestinian Authority schoolbooks feature three fundamentals: De-legitimization of Israel’s existence and the Jews’ very presence in the country, which includes denial of their history and the existence of any...

Can The Fatah Option Work in Gaza

Israel's three-week military operation in Gaza in December-January has raised the issue of the possible return of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party to Gaza to replace the Hamas regime. The...