Essays

197 essays

2010

Have We Lost Sight of Rabin's Vision?

Excerpts from Yitzhak Rabin’s final speech to the Knesset reveal his realistic vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace, including a Jewish state, united Jerusalem, and …

2010

World Leaders Ignore International Law

The U.S. Administration, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia’s decision to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied …

2010

The Flotilla Farce

Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy. A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege …

2010

Letter To MK Haneen Zoabi

Dear MK Haneen Zoabi, The Israeli Parliament revoked some of your political privileges, citing your consistent support of Israel’s worst enemies. You claim you are …

2010

Obama Against the Will of His Predecessors

Before the Zionist movement assumed concrete form, among the first to express approval of the return of the Jews to Palestine was John Adams, the second President of the …

2010

Making Jerusalem a Battleground

Arabs have systematically denied Jewish historical connections to Jerusalem, destroyed archaeological evidence, and used terrorist violence to make the city unbearable …

2009

The "Mandate for Palestine" is the Best Reply to "Occupation"

Speech on the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine as the historical and legal basis for the Jewish right to settle in Palestine.

2009

Goldstone: Terms that Deceive

Eli Hertz examines how Goldstone and UN bodies misuse terminology to rewrite history and falsely establish Palestinian identity and territorial claims.

2009

Goldstone Report is Low on Law

To finance, recruit, train, house, feed, transport, kidnap and murder innocent Jews, is a collective Palestinian Arab effort that demands a collectively responsible …

2009

George Mitchell, A Mideast Envoy With A Tendentious Legacy

Following President Obama’s appointment of former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell of Maine as his Middle East envoy, examining the tendentiousness of Mitchell’s …

2008

Ignorance or Lies?

An examination of Israel’s claims regarding UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and the extent to which it constitutes a genuine achievement or diplomatic failure.

2008

Condoleezza Rice and Jerusalem

Analysis of Secretary of State Rice’s position on Israeli settlements in Jerusalem and its contradiction with international law and historical claims to the city.

2007

Arab Terror in the City of Peace

Palestinian Arabs have concentrated many of their terrorist attacks on Jews in Jerusalem, hoping to win the city by an onslaught of terror who seek to make life in the …

2007

Letter to President Bush

An open letter to President Bush arguing against immediate Palestinian statehood with provisional borders, citing Fateh’s rejection of Israel, poor Palestinian …

2007

What is there to celebrate?

On Israel’s 60th anniversary, examining the UN Partition Plan and the true legal basis for Israeli statehood.

2007

To President Bush

I read with interest your remarks on the Middle East given on July 16, 2007 at the White House. I appreciate your sincere commitment and devotion in promoting and …

2006

European Union Policy of Hypocrisy

Applying Double Standards by Requiring of Israel a Behavior Not Expected or Demanded of any Other Democratic Nation. The leniency with which the European Union judges …

2005

'No News Is Good News': Illusion of Palestinian Compliance

Analysis of how Western media’s silence on terrorist activity during the 2005 Palestinian ceasefire created a false impression of Palestinian compliance and peace.

2004

The U.S. - Israel Special Relationship: Real Democracies, Shared Values

Characterized by more than universal human and Judeo-Christian values, a special relationship has developed between the United States and Israel based first and foremost …

2004

The U.S.-Israel Special Relationship

Characterized by more than universal human and Judeo-Christian values, a special relationship has developed between the United States and Israel based first and foremost …

2004

To Condi; Who is Humiliating Whom?

On October 11, 2006 in a Keynote Address to the American Task Force on Palestine,[1] Secretary Condoleezza Rice claimed that Palestinian Arabs feel ‘daily …

2002

A Secure Israel

“If you have a country that’s a sliver and you can see three sides of it from a high hotel building, you’ve got to be careful what you give away and to …

2002

How the British Fought Terror

An examination of declassified British documents detailing counter-terrorism tactics used in Palestine during the Mandate period in 1938, and their comparison to …

'Palestine' - More of a Threat to Israel than the Uprising

First Published February 1989. An analysis of the strategic security risks posed by Palestinian statehood compared to continued Israeli administrative control of the …

Rejectionism - Over 100 Years of Chronic Arab Rejectionism

The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict reveals 24 major junctures when compromise was offered since the 1920s, dating from pre-state, League of Nations Mandate to the …

UN Resolution 181 - November 29, 1947

In 1947 the British put the future of western Palestine into the hands of the United Nations, the successor organization to the League of Nations which had established …

The Territories

A UN coalition sought to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied Territories,’ thus endowing them with an aura of bogus statehood and a false history. They …

Mandate For Palestine - The Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights

“When it is asked what is meant by the development of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, it may be answered that it is not the imposition of a Jewish nationality upon …

90th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAN REMO CONFERENCE

Granting the right under international law for Jews to settle anywhere in western Palestine - the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea

A Bloody Battleground

Jerusalem and the Jewish people are so intertwined that telling the history of one is telling the history of the other. For more than 3,000 years, Jerusalem has played a …