Posts Tagged: Palestinian refugees
UNRWA is a Hostile Organization and Israel Should Treat it Accordingly
It was quite ironic that during the fighting in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces was shot at from facilities of the U.N. Relief and Works...
Israelis & Palestinians
We are caught up again the violent dance of death between Israel and Palestine. On both sides there are fanatics and politicians who revel in...
Video of UNRWA Camps Showing Children Calling for Jihad Attracts Renewed Attention
A video of summer camps run by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is making...
From Welfare to Warfare
As Operation Protective Edge enters its third week, we have now seen four incidents in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas that...
The Vanishing Two-State Solution
JNS.org - Speaking to a British television network this week, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron bemoaned that "facts on the ground" were on the...
Hamas and the Joy of Destruction
We all know about suicide bombers, who kill themselves in order to kill others. The Boston Marathon bombers were one of many recent examples. But...
Truly Understanding UNRWA
The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948. UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the...
UNRWA Admits Finding More Rockets Hidden in Gaza School; Second Time in a Week
In the second case in a week, the UN Agency responsible for Palestinians admitted that its staff had discovered rockets hidden in their schools in...
Explaining Why So Many Palestinians Are Still Refugees (REVIEW)
With the recent breakdown of another iteration of attempts to "make forward progress" in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, many have remarked on the basic intractability of the...
Real Refugees
Palestinian nationalism is deeply embedded in, and derived from, Jewish history in the Land of Israel. Without Zionism as their primary source of inspiration Palestinians...
What Would Abbas’ Palestinian State Look Like?
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri recently called Mahmoud Abbas "a traitor who is selling Palestine." The statement was made in a speech available on al-Qaeda-affiliated websites, and...
Israel and the Palestinians: Zero Sum Suffering
For Palestinians, suffering -- and sympathy for suffering -- is a zero-sum game. Sympathy used up on the Holocaust means less for Palestinians in the...
The Origins of Palestinian Refugee Relief Efforts (REVIEW)
Romirowsky and Joffe's book Religion, Politics and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief is an important volume for those interested in truly understanding the origins of...
The ‘Peace Process’ Unravels Yet Again
The Obama Administration's Mideast peace-making whirlwind appears to be headed towards an early demise. The immediate focus of the parties' mutual recriminations center on the...
