Treaties, borders, and rights
104 essays
First Published February 1989. An analysis of the strategic security risks posed by Palestinian statehood compared to continued Israeli administrative control of the …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 Palestinian state has good chances of becoming a rogue state – the kind of polity the United States is currently grappling with Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere.
On Tuesday evening, June 17th, the Egyptian government announced that a truce agreement between Israel and the Hamas in Gaza would commence at 6 A.M. on Thursday, June …
Eli E. Hertz is the President of Myths and Facts, Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to research and publication of information regarding U.S. global interests in the …
The Arab League, which has systematically opposed and blocked peace efforts for 60 years and is to this moment in a declared state-of-war with Israel, and more recently, …
(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List/Ram Ta’al) attacked the State of Israel in a fiery editorial published in the …
In June 1967, the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan attacked Israel with the clear purpose expressed by Egypt’s President: “Destruction of …
Between 1993 and 2001, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) signed six agreements with Israel and conducted countless meetings …
FATEH – the main faction of the PLO to which Arafat belonged and was its founding member – displays its constitution on its website. It calls under Article 12 for the: …
UN Security Council resolutions and international law define crimes against humanity and impose mandatory counter-terrorist obligations on all states to pursue and hold …
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and International treaties define crimes against humanity as the “participation in, and knowledge of, a …
“Israeli and Palestinian negotiators should decide once and for all where to draw the line between Israeli and Palestinian territory, ending the argument over …
Mr. President, Before putting together the final touches on your anticipated ‘Peace Speech’ expected to be delivered in Egypt on June 4, 2009, I request of …
What does it mean for Israel to face a potentially irrational nuclear adversary? An analysis of nuclear deterrence, rationality, and strategy in Israel’s security …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 - …
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’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 …