Treaties, borders, and rights
104 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
The United Nations General Assembly’s misuse of Resolution 377 threatens international law and the authority of the Security Council.
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 …
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 …
The U.S. Administration, the European Union, the United Nations, and Russia’s decision to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied …
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 …
Speech on the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine as the historical and legal basis for the Jewish right to settle in Palestine.
Eli Hertz examines how Goldstone and UN bodies misuse terminology to rewrite history and falsely establish Palestinian identity and territorial claims.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …