Tag: Israel

Leading off COMMENTARY’s March issue, Sol Stern reveals “The Truth Behind the Palestinian ‘Catastrophe.’”

Israel will soon celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence. Around the same time, Palestinians will stage their annual Nakba Day, the official commemoration held every year on May 15 to protest Israel’s creation....

New UNRWA Peace Initiative

67 UN member nations and 33 relief agencies * fund a $1.6 billion UNRWA budget, 58% of which is earmarked for education.   *https://www.unrwa.org/how-you-can-help/how-we-spend-funds UNRWA donors** can contribute to a lasting peace by encouraging an UNRWA PEACE...

HUDNA-WINKED

Israel's adversaries have not agreed to any cease-fire such as the binding armistice which halted World War I on the November 11, 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh...

Never Again? Hold Germany Accountable

​David Bedein Director Israel Resource News Agency​  at The Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research www.israelbehindthenews.com Thanks to the US freeze on American funds to UNRWA*, Germany, which presents itself as a democratic power, is now the...

UNRWA: A neutral agency or a political tool to attack Israel? – opinion

Donors like the US who seek to provide humanitarian assistance to people in need, demand accountability and compliance with international humanitarian standards. On Monday, May 15, the United Nations (UN) will mark Israel’s 75th anniversary...

Woeful

After the party is over, the hangover usually kicks in. Israel’s 75th birthday party had hardly finished when the usual domestic and foreign crowd surfaced to resume their well-orchestrated campaigns of deceit and denunciations. In fact, the...

75 not out

As we celebrate seventy-five years of re-established Jewish independence, I can’t help thinking is Israel still loved at 75? When it comes to Israel in general and Jews in particular, the question should elicit a...

Palestinian Historian Adel Manna Cherry-Picking’s book Nakba and Survival

27.04.23 Editorial Note On May 3, the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is holding a conference, “Encounters” Aftermaths annual series, on Zoom, together with the Avraham Harman Research...

Earth Day 2023: Artist Reveals New 7-Year Dead Sea Time Lapse Photo & Exhibition...

April 16, 2023 Arad, Israel; in honor of Earth Day 2023 the Arad Cultural Center in cooperation with the Dead Sea Revival Project is opening a new photo exhibition “Water Levels” highlighting the dramatic...

Hitler’s shadow – Nazi War

CHAPTER TWO Nazis and the Middle East Recent scholarship has highlighted Nazi aims in the Middle East, including the intent to murder the Jewish population of Palestine with a special task force that was to accompany...