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Arabs claim that Jewish settlements “change the status” of the Territories and represent a distortion of the Oslo Accords. The phrase applies to acts that …
To finance, recruit, train, house, feed, transport and murder Jews, is a collective Palestinian effort, requiring a collectively responsible response. In fact, poll after …
To finance, recruit, train, house, feed, transport and murder Jews is a collective Palestinian effort, requiring a collectively responsible response. Poll after poll …
Examining Israel’s response to Palestinian attacks in 2014 and the legal principles of proportionality and collective punishment under international law.
A host of resolutions passing annually by the General Assembly are not legally binding documents by any measure. One needs only to read Article 10 of the UN Charter: …
Arab leaders will see the Goldstone Report as justification to continue to incite, inflame and encourage Palestinian Arabs to pin every problem they face as individuals …
The weight of the evidence of so many scholars, observers, pollsters and monitors make it almost impossible to mitigate, not to mention ignore the enormity of finding a …
Next week, the President of the United States, George W. Bush will pay a formal visit to Israel and to the Palestinian Authority. On the eve of his arrival, the major …
Once again, a report has blamed an event almost solely on Israel while refusing to assign responsibility or even suitably investigate any other party. Unsurprisingly, a …
Analysis of the apparent decrease in violence against Israel during the Palestinian Authority’s declared ceasefire, examining media coverage and documented …
Background The language of Article 49 was crafted in the wake of World War II and the Nazi occupation – an occupation that led to a war of aggression in which Nazi …
Article 38 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (adopted in 1989) condemns the recruitment and involvement of children in hostilities and armed …
“Applying double standards by requiring of [Israel] a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation” is antisemitism.
“War is not politics by other means”, but “represents a catastrophic failure of political skill and imagination.” Kofi Annan, Secretary-General. …
The weight of the evidence of so many scholars, observers, pollsters and monitors make it almost impossible to mitigate, not to mention ignore the enormity of finding a …
In urgent matters of national survival and geopolitics, words matter. The still generally unchallenged language referring provocatively to an Israeli …
The Arab objective in the 1967 Six-Day War was to overrun and eradicate the Jewish state. That objective is very much in the minds of the majority of Palestinian Arabs - …
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, …
Draft resolutions attempting to brand Israel as an aggressor and illegal occupier after the 1967 Six-Day War were all defeated by either the UN General Assembly or the …
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 …
Jerusalem’s Jewish connection dates back more than 3,000 years. Even after Jews lost control of the city in 70 CE, a Jewish spiritual and physical bond with …
Resolution 242 was adopted after the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel was attacked by and captured territory from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. However, the resolution never …
Jerusalem, wrote historian Sir Martin Gilbert, is not a ‘mere’ city. “It holds the central spiritual and physical place in the history of the Jews as a …
For more than 3,000 years, the Jewish people have looked to Jerusalem as their spiritual, political, and historical capital, even when they did not physically rule over …
The League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine established the Jewish legal right to settle throughout western Palestine between the Jordan River and the …
It is remarkable to note the April 22, 1925 Report of the first High Commissioner on the Administration of Palestine, Sir Herbert Louis Samuel describing Jewish …
Successive Israeli governments have failed to recognize the supreme importance of the “Mandate for Palestine” [24 July, 1922] a historical League of Nations …
Herbert Louis Samuel’s 1921 report as British High Commissioner for Palestine documented how a Jewish National Home was internationally guaranteed through the …
As recently as the mid-20th century, when Arabs last controlled parts of Jerusalem, they exhibited no respect for the Holy City. In 1948, when Jordan took control of the …
As recently as the mid-20th century, when Arabs last controlled parts of Jerusalem, they exhibited no respect for the Holy City. In 1948, when Jordan took control of the …