Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestine refugees… Continue reading
The Arabic-speaking people are themselves the victims of the self-inflicted nakba… Continue reading
The right of return for Palestinians is one of the issues at the heart of the debate… Continue reading
International law has played a central role in attempting to solve the Arab-Israel conflict… Continue reading
The 1948 Arab-Israeli War caused great indignation and humiliation for the Palestinians… Continue reading
The tragedy befalling the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 was exclusively of their own making, and that there is therefore… Continue reading
The main theme of the various Nakba Day events was the Palestinian refugees’ return to the 1948 territories and the destruction of the State of Israel… Continue reading
You can read for yourselves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress. Both on regional issues and the Israel-Palestinian question… Continue reading
National correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg writes in the Atlantic on Tuesday… Continue reading
After the “Nakba” riots on Sunday may 15, widely reported by the mass media as the killing of several unarmed “peacefull” protesters… Continue reading
In 1947 the UN voted to partition the British mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The Jews accepted partition… Continue reading
The root of the conflict is, and always has been, their refusal to recognize the Jewish state… Continue reading
Na het mislukken van het hernieuwde vredesoverleg (of wat er voor door moest gaan) tussen Israël en de Palestijnse Authoriteit… Lees verder
Recently, Tariq Ramadan, considered by the Western intelligentsia to be the very epitome of enlightened Islamism, wrote a New York Times op-ed in which… Continue reading
The term “1967 borders,” the Arab world’s mantra for the borders of a PA state, never existed, says former Ambassador to Canada Alan Baker in a research paper for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs… Continue reading
Why? Of course, it would make sense to move ahead if it was clear that both sides wanted a deal and an agreement could easily be achieved. But in fact the Palestinian Authority (PA) doesn’t even want to negotiate… Continue reading
Delegitimization is a political, economic and philosophic campaign aimed at reversing the right of the State of Israel to exist and denying the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their homeland… Continue reading
Peace will not come as long as the powers abet Arab visions of a paradise on earth, encourage them in their hopes of destroying and inheriting Israel, and equip them with the instruments for the undertaking. The prospect of peace will appear on the horizon when the Arab leaders realize that they cannot change the… Continue reading
Only once throughout the eighteen years of the Armistice Agreement did any Arab leader challenge the thesis that war alone would bring about the elimination of Israel. There were continual and often acrimonious discussions on the timing of the predestined onslaught on the Jewish state… Continue reading
The nature of the Arab purpose in Palestine was illumined, was indeed dramatized, by the clash between the terrorist organizations and the Jordanian government that began September 1970. Not an ideological confrontation nor the result of a difference of opinion on the proper fate of Israel… Continue reading
Only a George Orwell or a Franz Kafka could have done justice to the story of the Arab refugee problem. For twenty years, the world has been indoctrinated with a vision of its origins, its scope, the responsibilities for its solution. The intent of this picture is, roughly, that in 1948 the Jewish people launched an… Continue reading
It is widely accepted, but not correct, that the West Bank belongs to the local Arabs in Palestine who call themselves Palestinians. Israel’s position has not recently been fully stated. At most, it is said that… Continue reading
Tijdens een Israël Apartheid Week georganiseerd door de Moslim Studenten Vereniging van de Universiteit van Californië, San Diego, gaf David Horowitz een lezing over Israël en het Midden Oosten. Dit keer willen we een ander aspect benadrukken en wel de gehanteerde dubbele… Continue reeading
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Farhud, the arabic Krystallnacht (1941). Looting of property and beating up of Jews took place in Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, Irbil, Basrah, Amara and Fallujah. The killing of Jews took place in Baghdad alone. Today, not a single Jew is left in Iraq… Continue reading
Jerusalem and the Jewish people are so intertwined that telling the history of one is telling the history of the other. For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has played a central role in the history of the Jews, culturally, politically, and spiritually… Continue reading
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