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Palestinian Refugees and the UN
There are many reasons to detest the United Nations. It treats proponents of genocide as legitimate world leaders. It is among the most anti-Semitic institutions on the planet. more...
Will the Young Eat the Revolution?
Revolutions, it is often said, eat their young; the Palestinian revolutionary movement, in all its splinters, certainly has swallowed generations of Palestinian children. more...
The Real Palestinian Refugee Problem
After World War II, the British left India which was to be partitioned into two independent nations. One would have a Hindu majority, the other a Muslim majority. more...
The New Palestinian Strategy
One word went unspoken in an interview President Barack Obama gave to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in late February. In their 45-minute discussion, devoted exclusively to the subject of Israel, the president did not utter the word Palestinian. more...
Middle East Non-Leadership
In the meantime, our claim to the moral high ground evaporates. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies comments on Obama’s inconsistency in the region when it comes to democracy and support for human rights. more...
A New United Church Report Shows How Israel-Haters Have Lost the Argument
According to a new report from the United Church of Canada, “the deepest meaning of the Holocaust was the denial of human dignity to Jews.” Oh, really? Actually, I’d say that the “deepest meaning of the Holocaust” was the slaughter of six-million human beings. more...
Abbas’s Police State
The Palestinian Authority is taking aggressive new measures to squelch dissent -- and the White House is missing in action. more...
Triple Play! Obama Blows Off Congress, Funds Palestinians, Lies About PA Stance on Israel
Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas... more...
Law Games
Progressive activists are corrupting the laws of war and putting free nations at increased risk. more...
Iran and Hamas’ Swiss Enablers
I remember roughly two years ago in September of 2010 when Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and I uncovered the Swiss heavy earth-moving equipment company Ceresola TLS agreement with Rahab Engineering Establishment in Tehran. more...
Marzook: No Recognition, No Permanent Peace
Marzook also stood firm on a number of Hamas' other perpetual and preposterous non-negotiable pre-conditions, including the fact that any future agreement would have to "include the unqualified right of Palestinians to return to land in what is now Israel." more...
Why the Mitt-Bibi Bromance Won’t Affect World Affairs
"The likelihood that Romney's presence at 1600 Pennsylvania can help seal a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians is very low," says Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. more...
Christians for Palestine
For most American Jews and Israelis, evangelical Christians are synonymous with zealous, biblically inspired support of the Jewish state—so zealous, in fact, that it makes some Jews uneasy. more...
UNESCO Funny Business
Surely Comedy Central’s The Daily Show meant well when it sent comedian John Oliver all the way to Africa to file a report savaging the United States for defunding the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. more...
Re: Beinart’s Slippery Slope on Boycotts
The “artists” explain their call to target Habima on the grounds that Habima performed in the Territories and that “By inviting Habima, Shakespeare’s Globe is undermining the conscientious Israeli actors and playwrights who have refused to break international law.” more...
Iran’s March for ‘Martyrs’ in Jerusalem
Every year since 1976, on March 30, Israeli Arabs commemorate clashes with Israeli police over Israel’s land policy that left six dead. It is an emotional day for the Arab community, but, over the years, it has largely been a peaceful domestic affair for Israel and its Arab minority. more...
As Global March to J’lem Nears, Press War Rages
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a blog post for the website of The Weekly Standard that the risk of violence at Friday’s march should not be discounted. more...
The ‘Global March to Jerusalem’: Hateful Ignorance on Parade
When Israeli paratroopers entered Jerusalem’s Old City during the Six-Day War of 1967, they had to rely on a passing bystander — an old Arab Jerusalemite — to guide them to the Western Wall of Herod’s long-destroyed Jewish Temple. more...
The Global March for Jerusalem
The first flotilla in 2010 ended in a bloodbath on the high seas, when the Israeli navy intercepted Islamists and activists seeking to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. more...
Iran’s Gaza Missile Gambit
As Jonathan Schanzer writes in Foreign Policy, the latest terror offensive that led to more than 200 missiles being fired at Israel was the brainchild of the Iranians. By starting the fight that the Israelis finished, Iran’s terrorist proxies were not just seeking to burnish their image by seeking to kill Jews more...
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