Tag: Cities

No truce on the agenda

News agencies mistakenly report that the a truce is now being discussed with Hamas, such as the armistice that ended hostilities in World War I, exactly 100 years ago, on the 11th hour of...

Anti-Semitism reminder: Kristallnacht, 80 years ago, must be remembered

The Holocaust is the systematic mass murder of European Jewry and others by the Nazis. The term Holocaust literally means a fire that causes total destruction. Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's most eminent historians...

The Blessing for Israel of a Democratic House

Nov. 8, 2018   David Bedein Director Israel Resource News Agency Center for Near East Policy Research A Democratic controlled House of Representatives can now play a crucial role in preventing the continuity of a Palestinian Arab regime which is devoid...

To Destroy Jerusalem, by Howard Kaplan

Writers House Publishing House, , LA, Cal. 363 pages Reviewed by David Bedein, Israel Resource News Agency TO DESTROY JERUSALEM, Kaplan’s fifth gripping Middle East thriller, is his longest and most ambitious to date. A historical...

Lobbing softball questions to UNRWA- letter published in the Jerusalem Post. Sept. 26, 2018

Your interview with UNRWA director general Pierre Krähenbühl (“UNRWA HEAD tells ‘Post’: You can’t just wish away a people and then hope the problem goes away” (September 12), http://jpost.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx ) was flawed by questions...

PM Netanyahu’s Speech to the UN General Assembly

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Thursday, 27 September 2018), addressed the UN General Assembly: "Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I spoke here, three years ago, Israel stood alone among...

Response to Jpost interview with the head of UNRWA

David Bedein Director Israel Resource News Agency Center for Near East Policy Research The interview conducted of UNRWA Director General Pierre Krähenbühl by Tova Lazaroff in the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 12, entitled "UNRWA HEAD APPEALS TO ARAB...

Newest Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks for Grades 11 and 12

Sept. 9, 2018  In the New Year, The Center for Near East Policy Research has  again engaged the expertise of Dr. Arnon Groiss to examine and translate the newest Palestinian Authority Schoolbooks for Grades 11...

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...