Terrorism and Incitement
The campaign against the state
73 essays
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
'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.
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, …