Posts Tagged: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Israel Apartheid Week: The Dirty Product of a Grotesque Alliance
The enemies of Israel neither slumber nor sleep. Right now they are engaged in "Israel Apartheid Week," spewing fire and vitriol at the Jewish...
Mixed Reaction to Obama in Israel
By Mati Tuchfeld, Shlomo Cesana and Gideon Allon/JNS.org Reaction was mixed in Israel to the public statements made by U.S. President Barack Obama during his...
The Guardian’s Polemical Caricature of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We've recently commended Harriet Sherwood for her modest improvements in covering the region, and in taking the first tentative steps towards giving voice to the...
Bon Voyage: President Obama in Israel
In anticipation of President Obama's forthcoming visit to Israel The New York Times published three "Op-Ed" columns in a single day (March 13) assessing the...
Palgrave Macmillan Participates in “Israel Apartheid Week”
I published a book, The Hidden Hand, with St Martin's Press in 1996 and had a good experience with the house. Which gives...
Peres Meets With French Jews, Muslims One Year After Toulouse Shooting
Israeli President Shimon Peres met with representatives and religious leaders of the French Jewish community Sunday on the eve of a memorial for the victims...
Chuck Hagel Joins the Palestine Firsters
Chuck Hagel established himself as a Palestine Firster on October 27, 2009, speaking at J Street's first national conference: "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is central, not...
Netanyahu to Ambassadors: Palestinians Must Declare Conflict Over for Peace Accord
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lecturing to Israeli ambassadors about regional concerns at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, said Palestinian claims of a "right of return"...
Survey: Three-Quarters of Israelis do Not Believe Territorial Concessions Will Solve Conflict
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has released the results of a survey, "Views of the Israeli Public on Israeli Security and Resolution of the Arab-Israeli...
The United Nations Does Not Create States
The passage of U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181, also known as the Partition Plan, on Nov. 29, 1947, marked an enormous moral victory for the...
Why I Don’t Want a Palestinian State
Every time hostilities erupt in the Levant, and quite a lot of the rest of the time too, I get the dubious pleasure of witnessing...
Israel and Hamas: Reflections on the Spirit of Resistance
Paul Newman's 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, the apex of journeyman Stuart Rosenberg's directorial career, imbued popular culture with many iconic scenes and memorable lines. ("What we...
Not So Random Questions, Facts, and Observations about Gaza and Israel
If foes in Mexico - drug cartels, for instance - were firing rockets and missiles into an area roughly covering 25% of the United States this...
On Middle East Peace, Obama Will be More Realistic in Second Term
President Barak Obama's re-election raises the question of what will happen to U.S.-Israel relations during his second term. What marred his relationship with Israel during...
