Posts Tagged: Israel-Palestine
Mideast History Does Not Begin When Journalists Arrive
One reason that journalists often get stories wrong and mislead their audiences is because they often behave as if history begins when they arrive in...
‘Experts’ Perpetuate Mideast and Palestinian Myths
JNS.org - No matter how many times the think-tank “experts” are proven wrong in their predictions regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, they keep promoting the same...
Why the Two-State Solution Won’t Work
The “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would create an independent Palestinian Arab state approximately along the pre-1967 lines. It would occupy all, or almost...
The European Union Is Promoting Palestinian Child Abuse
From an EU press release: Each year, 10th of December marks the day, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted with a view to...
Could Jordan’s Economic Crisis Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Jordan is facing an economic crisis that began forming over 20 years ago, when Abdullah II was crowned king. The most important factors that led to...
Why Israel Will Be Blamed for the Absence of PA Elections
When Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his advisors sit down to plan how to escape the possibility of holding elections for the Palestinian...
You Can’t Make Peace With Antisemites
The time has come for Israel to stop willfully ignoring the phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the Arab world, and start fighting it. Dialogue and...
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...
Truth-Telling to Advance Peace
JNS.org - Critics of the Trump administration’s determination that settlements “are not per se illegal” assert that it is detrimental to the possibility of peace....
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...
Careless in Gaza
JNS.org - Israel fought a battle in Gaza last week, but not against Hamas. That’s the news. The rest will be commentary. The battle was between...
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...
