Eli E. Hertz Mr. President: On June 4, 2009 in a Keynote Address to the Muslim world delivered from Cairo you asserted that it is “undeniable that the Palestinian people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.” You continued and claimed that “for more than sixty years they have endured […]

By Or Kashti Haaretz www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090345.html An educational kit on the Nakba [catastrophe] – the Palestinian term for what happened to them after 1948 – is being disseminated among teachers throughout the country. It was developed by Zochrot, a non-government organization, and is meant to serve the Jewish educational system for pupils aged 15 and above, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres How desperately I would like to be more “positive” in these columns. Like my ever-faithful readers here at The Jewish Press, I would dearly welcome an opportunity – any opportunity – to discover some real evidence of genuine progress toward peace in the Middle East. But, as always, we Jews are […]

by Rick Richman Why the settlements are important. Excerpts from two comments by military and intelligence analyst J. E. Dyer at Jonathan Tobin’s contentions post yesterday, You Don’t Need a Weatherman to See Which Way the Wind is Blowing: The most consistent position from Israeli leaders . . . is that the West Bank is […]

By: Aaron Klein Date: Wednesday, May 20 2009 It has been four long, thrilling years since I first arrived as a journalist in the Middle East. I’ve reported for months on end from the rocket-battered Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip and the war-torn Israeli-Lebanese-Syrian borders. I’ve stood in the trenches during massive nationalist protests […]

by Caroline Glick June 1, 2009, 4:26 PM Last night I was honored to received Guardian of Zion Award from the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar Ilan University. The ceremony was held at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. The following is the text prepared for delivery of the lecture I presented […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Date: Wednesday, May 27 2009 Not surprisingly, with regard to Israel, The New York Times continues to publish essentially only the Arab side of the story. In this connection, an especially egregious April 4 article by Professor George Bisharat (“Israel On Trial”) was decidedly more of a visceral attack upon Israel’s […]

Sivan 9, 5769, 01 June 09 01:23 by Jack Engelhard (IsraelNN.com) Back several years ago, when Hillary Clinton kissed Suha Arafat, well, some of us thought of it as just a “fem thing”. You know, sisters of the world unite and all that. You must remember this – right after Suha (falsely) accused Israel of […]

[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Here is a threat: President Obama holds up supply of helicopters to Israel out of concern for Palestinian civilians. But when it comes to 12 of the same helicopters for Egypt its the standard boiler plate “The proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Heavy IDF forces arrived – on the Sabbath – to destroy the Shvut Ami start-up neighborhood near Kedumim in the Shomron (Samaria). However, young pioneers began the rebuilding as soon as the Sabbath ended. Former Kedumim Mayor Daniella Weiss was in Shvut Ami when the destruction occurred. “There were so many […]