Tag: Middle East

New Year expectations…writes Michael Kuttner

As the civil year of 2016 draws to a close we look with uncertainty towards 2017 and wonder whether it can be worse than this year. The short answer is unfortunately yes. After polishing my crystal...

Kerry’s false moral equivalence

Like many others, I sat at my computer with baited breath Wednesday waiting for Secretary of State John Kerry to explain the background to the U.S. abstention on last week’s United Nations Security Council...

UK and UNRWA Education for Peace: What will be?

The Center for Near East Policy Research was  asked by a British Member of Parliament, about  the UK's role in the UNRWA facilities that education of 492,000 children who learn in UNRWA schools, from...

The UNRWA Reform Initiative (U.R.I.)

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) serves five million descendants of the Arab refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War of Independence, who still subsist in refugee conditions, under the premise of the “right...

Friday night, November 25 in Neve Tzuf, Israel – Fires on shabbat

Nobody is going to believe me when I tell them that having to flee with our community in the middle of the night, close the door on our house, convinced I would never see...

A25 PAGE EXEC SUMMARY: Jews and the Jewish State in Schoolbooks Used by UNRWA:...

Jews and the Jewish State in Schoolbooks Used by UNRWA: De-legitimization, Demonization and Indoctrination to War By Arnon Groiss (November 2016)  UNRWA's Educational Activity The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established following the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 in...

Were the Arabs Indigenous to Mandatory Palestine?

The Rape of Palestine, 1st ed. By William Ziff. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. Reprint. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Fine Books, 2010. 630 pp. $60. The assertion that Palestinian Arabs are the indigenous population...

Jews and the Jewish State in Schoolbooks Used by UNRWA: De-legitimization, Demonization and Indoctrination...

Executive Summary This paper deals with the attitude to the Jewish-Israeli "other" and to the issue of peace on the part of Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks used in schools operated by the United Nations Relief...

President Trump and Peace Education: Required Changes in PA text books, used in US...

As President elect Donald Trump launches his transition team, he will undoubtedly take a good look at US Middle East Policy. The new President will have to cope with the fact that the US...

Elihu D Richter: There must be zero tolerance for incitement and hate speech for...

Hate speech, incitement and genocide prevention are major challenges of our times which still remain unaddressed despite the danger they pose for the humanity. These are outstanding issues today also for Armenians because of...