197 essays
Jerusalem has served as the political and spiritual capital of only the Jewish nation for more than 3,000 years, while Arab and Islamic claims to the city are recent and …
Examination of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and Palestinian displacement as a consequence of Arab military action and the Arab League’s April 1948 invasion decision.
A comparison of European Union standards applied to Turkey’s EU candidacy versus those applied to Palestinian statehood aspirations, revealing a disparity in …
Today, 18 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and 18 years after his tragic death, Yitzhak Rabin was lauded by President Barack Obama as a man of peace and …
In the Middle East, the question has been whether the PLO would make the transition from terrorist organization to peace partner; from negotiating for hostages to …
Tzipi Livni was recently offered the position of Minister of Justice in Netanyahu’s government. At first, Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni advocated …
An examination of how critics misapply Article 49 of the Geneva Convention to Israeli settlements, contradicting authoritative legal scholars and the convention’s …
Update: To whom did the Obama administration grant permission to fly the Palestinian Liberation Organization flag in Washington D.C.? The answer: Palestinian Arabs - a …
The League of Nations recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and grounds for reconstituting their national home, while Palestine itself …
It would be a denial of reality to assume that only a small group of terrorists could be involved in the thousands of documented acts of terror in the past 10 years by …
What unites Palestinian Arabs is their opposition to Jewish nationalism and a desire to stamp it out - not aspirations for their own state. Murdering Jews is a collective …
Palestinians have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems - an Arab ‘East Jerusalem’ and a Jewish ‘West Jerusalem.’ Jerusalem …
Despite 1,300 years of Muslim Arab rule, Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab entity, nor was it ever mentioned in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s …
Israelis and friends of the Jewish State alike are accustomed to the never-ending scorn the United Nations heaps on the Middle East’s only free democracy, never …
A tribute to Professor Ben-Zion Netanyahu’s role in protecting Jewish settlement rights in Palestine through Article 80 of the UN Charter at the San Francisco …
Livni misguided a nation as to the outcome of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.
Eli E. Hertz responds to CBS journalist Bob Simon’s reporting on Palestinian security checkpoints by contrasting them with the extensive security measures Israeli …
Open letter to UK theatre and film industry members addressing opposition to Israeli National Theatre Habima’s invitation to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, …
The Global March to Jerusalem, scheduled for March 30, 2012, is an anti-Israel publicity stunt that aims to have a million people marching on Israel’s borders from …
The League of Nations unanimously recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine. Yet modern Arab states like Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq …
An examination of the historical absence of a sovereign Palestinian state and the artificial nature of Palestinian identity within the Arab world.
What kind of a society consciously and purposely sacrifices its own youth for political gain and tactical advantage? Suicide bombers are an escalation of a small-arms war …
A Palestinian state has good chances of becoming a rogue state – the kind of polity the United States is currently grappling with in Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran and …
On June 18, 2011 the New York Times published an OP-ED by its Columnist Thomas Friedman, named “What to Do With Lemons,” suggesting to “update …
A point-by-point rebuttal of Mahmoud Abbas’ claims regarding the Partition Plan, UN resolutions, Palestinian refugees, and the historical basis for Jewish …
“Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.” Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels. This essay examines Palestinian leader Mahmoud …
**Starting a civil war in 1947 after the Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the conflict. Rather than accept a …
The United Nations General Assembly’s misuse of Resolution 377 threatens international law and the authority of the Security Council.
Ron Dermer responds to TIME magazine’s characterization of Israel as becoming fascistic, defending Israeli democracy and comparing Israeli policies to those of …
Calls for a freeze on Jewish construction in disputed Territories are biased when Arab construction continues unfettered, and Jewish settlements are legal under the Oslo …