Tag: Cities

UNRWA Funding Cutoff: What Next?

On August 31, the State Department indicated that the United States was ceasing all contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency, the primary aid organization for Palestinian refugees. In addition to citing “the very...

The Status of Jerusalem in International and Israeli Law

Executive Summary Most member states of the United Nations still refuse to recognize Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel, even though more than 50 years have passed since the city’s unification in 1967. The United...

How UNRWA contributes to the violent campaign of the Palestinian Right of Return: A...

On November 2nd, 1917, Foreign secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Baron Rothschild, a prominent figure within the Jewish community in England. The Balfour Declaration declared British support for the Jewish...

This Time Kushner is Right

Recent reports quoting Palestinian officials indicate that US peace envoys seek to eliminate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. UNRWA is a UN refugee agency exclusively responsible for Palestinian “refugees”...

Pause to Rearm

DAVID BEDEIN, JERUSALEM POST, JULY 30, 2018 The Jerusalem Post mistakenly reported that a “cease-fire” was achieved with Hamas (“Shaky cease-fire after Gaza sniper kills IDF soldier,” July 22). The paper’s use of the term “cease-fire”...

The Allied Powers Holocaust: A Continuing Saga

PART ONE: OVERVIEW Throughout the years of the Obama administration and the Bush administration before it, Israel faced diplomatic and political pressures of growing intensity which reinforced long preexisting demands for concessions that would compromise...

From Israel: Intolerable!

It’s enough when our enemies are difficult to deal with. But deal with them we can, if we are resolute and clear-eyed. If we understand our rights and are not afraid to use our...

A Complaint against HUJ Prof. Nurit Elhanan-Peled

05.07.18 Editorial Note Last week Dr. Julia Muchnik-Rozanov of Achva College sent us a complaint about a lecture in a conference in Athens, Greece, by Prof. Nurit Elhanan-Peled of the Hebrew University.  The educational conference "25th...

Documentary: Catching the Killers, Restoring Hope

Black Forest is a documentary on the investigation into the terrorist attack that killed Kristine Luken and left Kay Wilson struggling for her life. The documentary focuses on how the DNA collected from that attack helped solve the...

Legal status of apartments sub-leased from KKL in Jerusalem

In 1951 Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael (KKL) acquired leases for a period of 99 years for swaths of undeveloped land in Jerusalem from a number of churches who had purchased the land probably during the...