3,000 years of history
67 essays
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 …
Examining Israel’s response to Palestinian attacks in 2014 and the legal principles of proportionality and collective punishment under international law.
Analysis of the apparent decrease in violence against Israel during the Palestinian Authority’s declared ceasefire, examining media coverage and documented …
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 - …
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 …
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 …
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 …
19 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and 19 years after his tragic death, Yitzhak Rabin was lauded by President Barack Obama as a man of peace and …
Palestinian Arabs have concentrated many of their terrorist attacks on Jews in Jerusalem, hoping to win the city by an onslaught of suicide bombers who seek to make life …
Israel is the only country in the Middle East that allows genuine freedom of conscience and protects sacred sites of all faiths In a series of signed agreements since …
The Arabs invented a special national entity in the 1960s called the Palestinians, specifically for political gain. They brand Israelis as invaders and claim the …
American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has publicly canvassed the possibility of considering alternative solutions on the future sovereignty of the West Bank as the …
Palestinian Arabs have concentrated many of their terrorist attacks on Jews in Jerusalem, hoping to win the city by an onslaught of suicide bombers who will make life in …
Trump Should Ask, Who is Humiliating Whom? On April 19th 2017, two Palestinian sisters from Gaza were traveling to Jerusalem for one of them to receive cancer treatment, …
Education Minister Professor Yuli Tamir proposed adding ‘pre-1967 borders’ to Israeli textbooks. This essay examines the legal and historical context of these …
Excerpts from Rabin’s last public speech to the Knesset (October 5, 1995) revealing his vision of a Jewish state, settlements, a unified Jerusalem, and security …
On December 13th 2010 the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council issued a press release on the subject of its meeting held on the same day to discuss the Middle …
In the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, after three Arab armies converged on Israel’s borders, even the United Nations recognized that Israel’s pre-1967 …
All people, Jews or gentiles, who dare not defend themselves when they know they are in the right, who submit to punishment not because of what they have done but because …
Europe seeks to play the role of neutral mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Yet for a host of reasons – most of them self-serving – Europe has demonstrated a clear …
Justice Richard Goldstone and the United Nations Human Rights Council sought to rewrite history by labeling Judea and Samaria as ‘Occupied Palestinian …
Jerusalem, it seems, is at the physical center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In fact, two distinct issues exist: the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of the Holy Places. …
The Mandate for Palestine, a League of Nations document, established the Jewish legal right under international law to settle in Palestine, an entitlement unaltered in …
Examines Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s analogy between Palestinian struggle and African American civil rights, analyzing how personal experience shapes her …
Both the General Assembly and the Security Council have limited influence on the future of Jerusalem. Judge Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, a former judge ad hoc on the bench of …