Posts Tagged: israel
Turkey Moves to Stop Israel From Building Undersea Gas Line to Europe
Turkey is attempting to stop Israel from laying a natural gas pipeline to Europe, Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported on Thursday. According to the report, Turkey...
The Two-State Plan May No Longer Be Viable — and Israel Must Find a New Solution
JNS.org - Some in Israel sought to question the motives and significance of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration last month that Israeli settlements...
US Foreign Policy Threats to Israel’s National Security: Strategic Imperatives for Jerusalem
Though US President Donald Trump describes himself as pro-Israel, any serious analytic assessment of his foreign policies would point toward a different conclusion. On the...
Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’
I have written before about the importance of semantics in the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how frustrated many people are about losing various...
UK Paper Revives Lie of Palestinian ‘Political Prisoners’ in Israel
A Guardian article (“Lawyer criticises secretive Israeli case against Gaza aid worker," Nov. 28), by its Jerusalem correspondent, Oliver Holmes, included the following claim: More than...
Legalizing Politics and Politicizing the Law
JNS.org - One of the modern era’s most dangerous problems is the conflation of politics with law. Political questions are increasingly treated as legal ones,...
Israeli Settlements and Peace
Good news. Bad news. The US has declared that settlements in the West Bank are not illegal according to international law, despite nearly everyone else claiming...
Israel in the West Bank Advances US Interests
The US position on the future of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be based on US interests in the context of a violent,...
Trump and the ‘Settlements’: A Preliminary Analysis
The Trump administration’s repudiation of established Obama-era policies that considered Israeli communities across the 1949 Armistice Line (the “Green Line”) “inconsistent with international law” has...
Proud Palestinian Jew-Hatred on the Record at the UN
In 1968, the Palestinians were not shy about their antisemitism -- and it is all recorded in the archive of the United Nations itself. From Agenda...
The Palestinian Authority’s Corruption Dooms Chances for Peace
JNS.org - The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been a hotbed of corruption and financial mismanagement since its birth in 1993 under Yasser Arafat. This has...
Palestinian Extremists Hate the United States — and Not Just Because of Israel
A year before his confirmation to the US Supreme Court in 1916, Louis D. Brandeis affirmed the compatibility of Zionism with American patriotism for “every...
Who Was Really Killed in Israel’s Response to Palestinian Rocket Attacks?
In an article last Tuesday, the first day of massive Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket attacks against Israeli communities and Israel’s surgical air strikes against targets...
Israel Faces Unprecedented Security Threats
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently warned of new threats that necessitate immediate emergency measures, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi has...
