Topic

Terrorism and Incitement

The campaign against the state

73 essays

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

Freedom and Democracy: Prerequisites to Peace

In the Middle East, the question has been whether the PLO would make the transition from terrorist organization to peace partner; from negotiating for hostages to …

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

Gaza 2012: Proportionality and Collective Punishment

It would be a denial of reality to assume that only a small group of terrorists could be involved in the thousands of documented acts of terror in the past 10 years by …

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

Bob Simon - Nothing New Under the Sun

Eli E. Hertz responds to CBS journalist Bob Simon’s reporting on Palestinian security checkpoints by contrasting them with the extensive security measures Israeli …

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

Thomas Friedman's Partition Plan

On June 18, 2011 the New York Times published an OP-ED by its Columnist Thomas Friedman, named “What to Do With Lemons,” suggesting to “update …

2011

Rebutting TIME

Ron Dermer responds to TIME magazine’s characterization of Israel as becoming fascistic, defending Israeli democracy and comparing Israeli policies to those of …

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

The Flotilla Farce

Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy. A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege …

2010

Making Jerusalem a Battleground

Arabs have systematically denied Jewish historical connections to Jerusalem, destroyed archaeological evidence, and used terrorist violence to make the city unbearable …

2009

Goldstone Report is Low on Law

To finance, recruit, train, house, feed, transport, kidnap and murder innocent Jews, is a collective Palestinian Arab effort that demands a collectively responsible …

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

Letter to President Bush

An open letter to President Bush arguing against immediate Palestinian statehood with provisional borders, citing Fateh’s rejection of Israel, poor Palestinian …

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 …

2005

'No News Is Good News': Illusion of Palestinian Compliance

Analysis of how Western media’s silence on terrorist activity during the 2005 Palestinian ceasefire created a false impression of Palestinian compliance and peace.

2002

How the British Fought Terror

An examination of declassified British documents detailing counter-terrorism tactics used in Palestine during the Mandate period in 1938, and their comparison to …

'Palestine' - More of a Threat to Israel than the Uprising

First Published February 1989. An analysis of the strategic security risks posed by Palestinian statehood compared to continued Israeli administrative control of the …

Rejectionism - Over 100 Years of Chronic Arab Rejectionism

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 …

The Territories

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 …

A Bloody Battleground

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 …

A Crazy state does not play by the rules

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.

A Genuine Nightmare

Beginning in 1917, the British Government ruled the land known as Palestine and ruled its inhabitants, both Arabs and Jews, for more than 30 years. That British in-depth …

A Nuclear Iran Could Become the First 'Suicide State'

President Barack Obama this week launched a special nuclear security summit in Washington finally acknowledges that Iranian threats to annihilate Israel are serious. …

A Secure Israel is a Condition for Peace

Objectively, how vulnerable is Israel? To say that Israel is a tiny nation does not begin to describe the state’s predicament. Slightly larger than the Canary …

A Truce Agreement with Hamas following "A Failure worse than the Second Lebanon War"

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 …

Annapolis - Leaving Democracy at the Door

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, …