Tag: Cities

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...

Double speak needs to be challenged

George Orwell hit the nail on the head when he stated: “The further society drifts from truth the more it will hate those that speak it”…writes Michael Kuttner. We are these days facing an epidemic of...

Should President Trump, like President Obama, forsake human rights in pursuit of the deal...

In the biblical narrative, King Solomon, described as the wisest of men, was confronted by two women who shared a house. They each claimed to be the mother of an infant boy while insisting...