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“Celebrating” Orientalism

Through the backdoor of an unreciprocated concern for the “other,” educated Westerners have allowed a hostile, bullying, honor-shame discourse to take over much of their public space. And as millions of refugees are thrown up on the shores of Europe, Western policymakers remain captive to suicidal memes that bespeak a profound ignorance of Arab and Muslim culture… Read more

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False Friends: The Global War Against Israel

The false narrative about Rabin… 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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Israel’s Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?

Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land… 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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Remembrance of Articles Past

Reorganizing files for my past articles I came across some amusing and revealing things you might enjoy, showing how often the region doesn’t really change… Continue reading

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Israeli Settlements, American Pressure, and Peace

President Obama apparently believed that pressuring Israel to halt construction of homes in Jewish neighborhoods in parts of Jerusalem would advance peace. In reality, the opposite ensued… 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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Palestinians Renege on Security Ties with Israel

For the first time since 2006, the Palestinian Authority’s security services on the West Bank have stopped cooperating with the IDF in operations and intelligence-sharing for countering terrorism… Continue reading

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Talking Points

A hallmark of U.S. President Barack Obama’s approach to Israel has been to confront Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly about areas of disagreement almost every time they meet… 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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Finnish delusions

Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has done it again… 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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How Anti-Semitism Prevents Peace

Despite the obsessive preoccupation with Israeli building activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem… Continue reading

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An Analysis of George Habash – And the Rise and Fall of the Palestinian Left

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War caused great indignation and humiliation for the Palestinians… Continue reading

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The Jewish Left: Confronting our Subversive Institutions

Just as Israelis are denied their right to an open, objective public discourse due to the radical Left’s predominance in the media… Continue reading

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Nakba Day: “Right of Return” is Central to Palestinian’ Strategy to Liberate “Palestine”

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

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Mahmoud Abbas about Nakba: “We Left Galilee on Our Own”

After the “Nakba” riots on Sunday may 15, widely reported by the mass media as the killing of several unarmed “peacefull” protesters… Continue reading

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Israel: Politicians Warn Against Palestinian State

The upcoming UN General Assembly session in September, where many countries are poised to recognize a Palestinian state, does not… Continue reading

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Palestinian Leaders’ Response to Democratic Upheaval: Fire the Honest Guy

The Palestinian Authority doesn’t have to worry about democratic upheavals since it has the nationalist and anti-Israel cards to play… Continue reading

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The “Palestine Papers”: Fabrication of the Day

Several people have asked me what I think about the new “Palestine Papers” which have been “obtained” (that means the PA gave it to them) by al-Jazira, the Guardian, and perhaps others, in imitation of Wikileaks… Continue reading

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Medvedev makes ‘historic’ visit to ‘Disputed Territories’

The Russian Federation’s President Dmitry Medvedev visited the ‘disputed territories’ on a “historic” trip as part of his Middle East tour, CNN reported on Tuesday… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Israël Beducht Op Represailles Na Mysterieuze Aanslag Op Hezbollah Terrorist

Imad Mughniyeh was één van de meest gezochte terroristen ter wereld. De Israëlische Mossad, de CIA, het Franse SGDN en andere inlichtingendiensten waren méér dan 20 jaar op zoek naar de man die een lange lijst van terroristische aanslagen op zijn CV had staan: bomaanslagen, moorden en ontvoeringen… Lees verder

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After The Yom Kippur War

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