Topic

International Law

Treaties, borders, and rights

104 essays

2022

Jerusalem, Our Nation's Capital Throughout History

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 …

2015

Do Palestinians Deserve Statehood?

A comparison of European Union standards applied to Turkey’s EU candidacy versus those applied to Palestinian statehood aspirations, revealing a disparity in …

2013

Rabin: More Than Meets the Eye

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 …

2013

Livni's Misguided Sense of Accomplishments

Tzipi Livni was recently offered the position of Minister of Justice in Netanyahu’s government. At first, Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni advocated …

2013

How Israel's Enemies Misrepresent the Geneva Convention

An examination of how critics misapply Article 49 of the Geneva Convention to Israeli settlements, contradicting authoritative legal scholars and the convention’s …

2013

State Department Legitimizes Terror

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 …

2012

Palestine is Jewish

The League of Nations recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and grounds for reconstituting their national home, while Palestine itself …

2012

Gaza and International Law

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 …

2012

THE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE STILL MATTERS

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 …

2012

In Memory of Ben Zion Netanyahu

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 …

2012

Tzipi Livni Just Quit the Knesset

Livni misguided a nation as to the outcome of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.

2012

The Global March to Jerusalem

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 …

2011

Purposely Sacrificing Children

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 …

2011

A Crazy State

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 …

2011

Facts vs. Abbas' New York Times Op-Ed

A point-by-point rebuttal of Mahmoud Abbas’ claims regarding the Partition Plan, UN resolutions, Palestinian refugees, and the historical basis for Jewish …

2011

Abbas - Rewriting Middle East History

“Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.” Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels. This essay examines Palestinian leader Mahmoud …

2011

UN Res. 377: A Clear Danger

The United Nations General Assembly’s misuse of Resolution 377 threatens international law and the authority of the Security Council.

2010

PA Drafts UN Resolution

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

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 …