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
Yesterday, we published an article about the latest Human Rights Watch report, “Separate and Unequal: Israel’s Discriminatory Treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”, accusing Israel of… 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
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had the thankless task of writing finis on the Obama administration’s intense two-year effort to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to discuss peace. Her speech to the Saban Forum early Saturday, Dec. 11 was much awaited as Washington’s first comment on… Continue reading
The Palestinian Authority’s information ministry sent a press release claiming that the Partition Plan had created the “foundation for the wounds caused by the nakba…which were still open” and the reason the Palestinians had lost “their land and historical legacy”… Continue reading
If you want to understand how the debate goes in the Arabic-speaking world and the ways liberals there try to get across their message, there’s nothing better to read than Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed’s article, “Erdogan…Fulfill Your Promises.” It’s also very easy to misunderstand… 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
Israel is not hindering the solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rather, it is the PA who is unwilling to stand up and say to its people the truth, the need for true compromise. These are excerpts from… Continue reading
A factor up until now neglected in the Middle East strategic picture is Israel’s development of a strong, multi-level missile defense system aimed both against short-range rockets fired by Hamas and Hizballah as well as to guard against… Continue reading
Uit gelekte documenten van de Amerikaanse Ambassade in Tel Aviv blijkt dat Ehud Barak, de Israëlische minister van defensie, begin juni 2009 Amerikaanse congresleden heeft gewaarschuwd dat er tot eind 2010 tijd is voor een aanval op Iraanse nucleaire installaties… Lees verder
De onlangs gelekte documenten van Amerikaanse Ambassades op Wikileaks bevestigen wat we al wisten, maar wat vaak afgedaan werd als ‘Zionistische propaganda,’ namelijk dat Iran wapens en geheime agenten smokkelde naar andere… Lees verder
At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed the new State of Israel. On that same date, 11 minutes later, the United States, in the person of President Truman, announced its recognition of the provisional Jewish government as de facto authority of the… 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
In July 1972, the Egyptian President announced that he had asked the Soviet government to withdraw its “advisers” from Egypt. The reason, he said, was that the Soviets had refused his requests for more sophisticated weapons with which to attack Israel… 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
Israel’s security cabinet on Wednesday morning approved a plan to withdraw IDF troops from the northern part of Ghajar and to redeploy the troops on the Israeli side [south] of the ‘Blue Line’… Continue reading
Israel’s security cabinet is expected Wednesday to endorse a plan to unilaterally withdraw the IDF from the northern part of Ghajar, an area where the boundaries between Israel, Syria and Lebanon are in dispute. Approval of the plan… 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
The distortion of history, ancient and modern, basic to the Arab-British resistance to Jewish restoration, had been fully articulated by 1948. After 1948, the Arabs added greater depth and vehemence in presentation and with it a theme of hatred of the Jews, comparable only to the demonology of medieval Christianity or the excesses of German Nazi propaganda in our own age… Continue reading
The land, unloved by its rulers and uncared for by most of its handful of inhabitants, whose silences Lamartine had likened to those of ruined Pompeii, and which Mark Twain had compassionately consigned to the world of dreams, began to come to life again with the blossoming of Jewish restoration in the nineteenth century… Continue reading
Promoted by two such powerful forces as Soviet assertions and Arab propaganda, the claim of Arab historical rights has become a central element in the international debate. By sheer weight of noise, it has impressed many otherwise knowledgeable and well meaning people. The facts of history are… Continue reading
On November 29, 1947 – the day the United Nations Assembly decided to recommend the partition of Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state – there were no Arab refugees. The area allotted to the Jewish state was much smaller even than that established by the Armistice lines of 1949… 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
On May 14, 1967, the territorial limits of the State of Israel were the lines agreed upon in her Armistice Agreements of 1949 with Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. Israel held none of the territories she was to gain as a result of the still undreamed-of war three weeks away… Continue reading
In een lang afscheidsinterview met de Jerusalem Post laat Seaman, enigzins teleurgesteld, al zijn opgehoopte frustraties de loop over zijn werk en de verhoudingen tussen de Westerse media en Israël. Het is dus een openhartig interview geworden, maar het belangrijkste… Lees verder
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