Essays
197 essays
Jerusalem, Our Nation's Capital Throughout History
Jerusalem has served as the political and spiritual capital of only the Jewish nation for more than 3,000 years, while Arab and Islamic claims to the city are recent and …
Nakba. The Arab Self-Inflicted Catastrophe
Examination of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and Palestinian displacement as a consequence of Arab military action and the Arab League’s April 1948 invasion decision.
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 …
Rabin: More Than Meets the Eye
Today, 18 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and 18 years after his tragic death, Yitzhak Rabin was lauded by President Barack Obama as a man of peace and …
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 …
Livni's Misguided Sense of Accomplishments
Tzipi Livni was recently offered the position of Minister of Justice in Netanyahu’s government. At first, Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni advocated …
How Israel's Enemies Misrepresent the Geneva Convention
An examination of how critics misapply Article 49 of the Geneva Convention to Israeli settlements, contradicting authoritative legal scholars and the convention’s …
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 …
Palestine is Jewish
The League of Nations recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and grounds for reconstituting their national home, while Palestine itself …
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 …
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 …
The 'Two Jerusalems' Myth
Palestinians have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems - an Arab ‘East Jerusalem’ and a Jewish ‘West Jerusalem.’ Jerusalem …
Islam's Tenuous Connection to Jerusalem
Despite 1,300 years of Muslim Arab rule, Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab entity, nor was it ever mentioned in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s …
THE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE STILL MATTERS
Israelis and friends of the Jewish State alike are accustomed to the never-ending scorn the United Nations heaps on the Middle East’s only free democracy, never …
In Memory of Ben Zion Netanyahu
A tribute to Professor Ben-Zion Netanyahu’s role in protecting Jewish settlement rights in Palestine through Article 80 of the UN Charter at the San Francisco …
Tzipi Livni Just Quit the Knesset
Livni misguided a nation as to the outcome of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.
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 …
To the Members of the U.K.'s Theater and Film Industries
Open letter to UK theatre and film industry members addressing opposition to Israeli National Theatre Habima’s invitation to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, …
The Global March to Jerusalem
The Global March to Jerusalem, scheduled for March 30, 2012, is an anti-Israel publicity stunt that aims to have a million people marching on Israel’s borders from …
Artificially Created States
The League of Nations unanimously recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine. Yet modern Arab states like Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq …
Short and Simple: The Palestinian State
An examination of the historical absence of a sovereign Palestinian state and the artificial nature of Palestinian identity within the Arab world.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Facts vs. Abbas' New York Times Op-Ed
A point-by-point rebuttal of Mahmoud Abbas’ claims regarding the Partition Plan, UN resolutions, Palestinian refugees, and the historical basis for Jewish …
Abbas - Rewriting Middle East History
“Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it.” Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels. This essay examines Palestinian leader Mahmoud …
Had There Been No War, There Would Be No Nakba.
**Starting a civil war in 1947 after the Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the conflict. Rather than accept a …
UN Res. 377: A Clear Danger
The United Nations General Assembly’s misuse of Resolution 377 threatens international law and the authority of the Security Council.
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 …
PA Drafts UN Resolution
Calls for a freeze on Jewish construction in disputed Territories are biased when Arab construction continues unfettered, and Jewish settlements are legal under the Oslo …