A series of articles about Israel and the Middle East. From Behind the News in Israel.By: David Bedein
Gary Rosenblatt’s piece, Painful Path Toward Relocating Settlers, , which ran in the Jewish Week on December 14, 2010, depicts a former official of Israeli intelligence, Ami Ayalon, as he fantasizes during a visit to Efrat about a theoretical construct that would allow some Jews to remain in Judea and Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem, in a framework where Israel could coexist with a Fatah-dominated Palestinian state. Given Ayalon’s background in Israeli intelligence, it is…
Read Complete ArticleBy: Prof.Meir Loewenberg*
“The Shechina [Divine Presence] will never move from the Western Wall” according to an ancient tradition (Exodus Rabba 2.2). Originally, this saying did not refer to the present Western Wall which is part of retaining wall of the Temple Mount but to the western wall of the Temple-building. Since nothing remains of the original Temple wall, this saying is nowadays often applied to the Kotel, the current Western Wall. The ruins of the original western wall of the Temple building on the…
By: Barry Rubin,director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal
The Gaza Strip is and the Hamas regime seems set to go on forever. It’s raking in the aid money but every dollar and every project is shaped to ensure that Hamas remains in power, can return to violence in future and…wreck everything again. “There are a slew of products here, and beautiful restaurants. Is this the Gaza we have been hearing about?” asked a Sudanese official arriving there, as quoted by the Palestinian news agency Maan. “Where is the siege? I don’t see it…
By: Prof. Eli Richter, Director World Wide Genocide Situation Room
As I follow the headlines and sound bytes, I have yet to see even ONE public statement from the Israeli government demanding an end to incitement as a core issue. To my point of view, it is the first issue which must be addressed, before any of the others (borders, refugees, Jerusalem, settlements, demilitarization, water) are discussed. Backchannel demands are not enough. The Israeli government comes accross as tongue tied and tongue-tied on demanding an end to state sanctioned…
By: Dr. Matthias Küntzel* , Book Reviewer
Published November 2010 Jewish Political Studies Review 22:3-4 (Fall 2010) (translated from German by Mareike Enghusen) Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, has used his expertise to describe the challenges of our times and call policymakers to action. For example, in his bestseller Hatred’s Kingdom: How Supports the New Global Terrorism, he challenged American policy toward Saudi Arabia. “The scope of diplomacy must be broadened,” he wrote, to provide…
