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Trump’s Speech Recognizing Jerusalem: What It Says and What It Doesn’t Say
Institute for Contemporary Affairs
Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation
Vol. 17, No. 35
President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital puts into deep-freeze plans for a division of the city.
Until Trump’s speech,...
1917 and the liberation of Jerusalem
On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby’s forces officially liberated Jerusalem.
Actually, a Jerusalem delegation, led by the mayor, surrendered the city to a pair of British army cooks on December 8. Thus began a...
Who Saved Israel in 1947?
November 29 marks the 70th anniversary of UN General Assembly resolution 181, recommending the partition of Mandate Palestine into two separate Jewish and Arab states. On that day in 1947, millions of listeners sat...
Israel and the New Geopolitics of Energy
Israel had an “oil problem” at birth. In 1947, the American oil industry lobbied against the partition of Palestine for fear of alienating Saudi Arabia. The oil embargo imposed by OPEC in 1973 seriously...
Should funding to UNRWA be made conditional on ending incitement?
A new comprehensive study by the Center for Near East Policy Research & the Israel Resource News Agency, commissioned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, highlights new Palestinian Authority school books used in UNRWA schools,...
Mahmoud Abbas Against Freedom of Expression
The political behavior of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in relation to the Palestinian opposition is no different from any other ruler in an Arab country. In other words, this is another dictator who...
Chaya Raanan: Profile of Courage in Hebron
Screams of terror and pain pierced the silent Hebron night. The screams were coming from the bedroom where Rabbi Shlomo Ra'anan, was preparing to retire for the night. Chaya Ra'anan, who was in the...
How Reporters were Forced to Downgrade the Report of a “Massacre.”
After two weeks of screaming headlines that proclaimed "Massacre in Jenin!", the news story from Jenin is slowly emerging. This follows the decision of the IDF to allow representatives of the Israeli and foreign...
