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Lebanon, UNIFIL Deaths, and Ireland’s Diplomatic Machinations

Failed peacekeeping: how the Irish UNIFIL troops favoured the PLO and Hizbullah… Read more

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Palestinian Leaders Don’t Want an Independent State

The truth about Palestine’s independence… Continue reading

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Kuwait Expels Thousands of Palestinians

Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers… Continue reading

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American Journalists Decry Israel’s Ability to Defend Itself as Blocking Peace

It should be clear by now that U.S. media coverage of Israel is not very good, balanced, accurate, or fair… Continue reading

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Israel Has No Other Alternative But the Alternative it Has is a Good One

By essentially unilaterally declaring the existence of an Arab Palestine, the world has abrogated the Oslo accords… Continue reading

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A Few Notable Anniversaries on the Palestinians’ Big Day

The more things change, the more they remain the same… Continue reading

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UN: Palestine is Now a Non-Member State; Reality: Palestine Will Continue to be a Non-Existent State

The UN will give Palestine the status of a non-member state. The only thing that will change is to convince people even more that they are following a clever and successful strategy. They aren’t… Continue reading

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Digging Up Arafat

Suddenly, I received all of these phone calls from journalists asking me to talk about who murdered the late Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat… Continue reading

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President Mahmoud Abbas Addresses the General Debate of the 67th Session of the General Assembly

Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, addresses the general debate of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

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The war against the Jews

The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds… Continue reading

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Does Power Moderate Radicals? Where’s the Proof?

An interesting and important question about the Middle East is whether being in power or running in an election inevitably moderates those who are radicals… Continue reading

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Yasir Arafat Is Still Dead and We Know Who Really Did Him In

Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive…Continue reading

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The Rhetoric of Nonsense

For nearly two decades the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been denying Israel’s right to exist, and a recent “Nakba Day” was no exception… Continue reading

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The Revisionist History of Sari Nusseibeh

The advocacy of the destruction of a long-existing state, established by an internationally recognized act of national self-determination, has hardly dented Nusseibeh’s “moderate” credentials… Continue reading

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The Fatah-Hamas peace process

On Monday afternoon, the Palestinians destroyed officially whatever was left of the concept of a peace process with Israel… Continue reading

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Newt Gingrich and the “Invented” Palestinian People

Everyone from the PLO to a Mitt Romney spokesman jumped on Gingrich for this assertion… Continue reading

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The Year the Arabs Discovered Palestine

Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as… Continue reading

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Jordan Is Palestinian

Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across the Middle East… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: The Right of Return: What it Means in Jordan

The right of return for Palestinians is one of the issues at the heart of the debate… Continue reading

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Gilad Shalit: A pact signed in Jewish blood

No one denies the long suffering of the Schalit family… Continue reading

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It Isn’t Israel in Danger of Disappearing, It’s The People Who Think That Way

I’m standing on the edge of the Roman Forum, by the Arch of Titus. This is the marble structure built by… Continue reading

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President Mahmoud Abbas Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

I submitted an application for the admission of Palestine on the basis of the 4 June 1967 borders, with AI-Quds AI-Sharif as its capital, as a full member of the United Nations… Continue reading

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Abbas: Palestinians seek full UN membership

Mahmoud Abbas has confirmed that he will request full membership at the United Nations… Continue reading