May 15, 1998 marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, and the creation of the State of Israel. It was nearly five years after the signing of the “Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements,” better known as the Oslo Accords, between Israel and the PLO that led to [...]
The continued existence of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has played a key role in the Arab-Israeli Conflict for decades, but not necessarily a positive one. In fact, the title of a 2008 Jonathan Spyer piece puts UNRWA’s role succinctly into perspective: UNRWA: Barrier to Peace. Yet UNRWA was not [...]
Jerusalem has been in the news even more than usual this past week, beginning with a US Supreme Court ruling that clearly repudiated a State Department claim of sweeping power over foreign policy and Jerusalem, and ending with the latest attempt to stir up global sentiment against Israel, this time not with a flotilla or [...]
By Aaron Eitan Meyer Many around the world were shocked and horrified in 2000 when France 2 broadcast a brief video purportedly showing a young Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura being supposedly shot by Israeli forces in a 55-second video clip taken on September 30, 2000, at the beginning of the deadly Second Intifada against [...]
