Israel’s 1967 Borders Aren’t Defensible
The cornerstone of all postwar diplomacy was UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed in November 1967. It did not demand that Israel pull back completely to the pre-1967 lines. The 1993 Oslo Agreements did not stipulate that the final borders between Israel and the Palestinians would be the 1967 lines.
Can Cold War Deterrence Apply to a Nuclear Iran?
The countries of the Middle East will probably be more predisposed than the Cold War protagonists to brandish their nuclear weapons
Countdown to September: Israel, the Palestinians, and the UN General Assembly
The public debate in Israel over the Palestinian plan to seek UN support for statehood in September is based on a fundamental misconception: the UN General Assembly cannot by itself establish or recognize a Palestinian state.
A Bad Deal: Why Palestinian Unity Won’t Lead to Peace
Representatives of Fatah and Hamas announced that they had suddenly reached a reconciliation agreement. Although the agreement may solve some of the short-term problems of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s statehood drive, it will create larger problems that promise to doom the plan to irrelevancy — and make a historic peace agreement with Israel far less likely.
The Jewish Conspiracy: A Strategic Weapon
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – a proven lie and forgery – is being published around the world, with new editions in Arabic almost every year.
Jews as Symbols and Reality in Multicultural Canada
The growth of Canada’s Jewish population has followed the pattern of Canada’s development: a shift from east to west. Until the mid-twentieth century, Montreal was the center of Canadian Jewish life; today that role is played by Toronto. About half of Canada’s Jews reside in Toronto, a quarter in Montreal, and the rest in smaller communities such as Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Vancouver.
From the Editors
Jewish Political Studies Review 23:1-2 (Spring 2011) This issue begins with an essay by Dexter Van Zile in which he analyzes one of the major sources of anti-Zionist aggression in mainstream Protestant churches – the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center headquartered in Jerusalem. This center’s modus operandi is to investigate and scrutinize Israel, Jews, and Judaism. At the […]
The European Union: Challenges for Israeli Diplomacy
Should the Palestinians proceed with their plan to seek a UN General Assembly resolution stating that the Palestinian Authority constitutes a state with borders based on the 1967 lines, how the European Union votes will be critical.
Sarah Schmidt on Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel’s Founding Story by M.M. Silver
By showing how the representation of historical events in Exodus reflected Uris’s need to define for himself a stronger identity as a Jew, one that would also bolster the morale of American Jews in post-Holocaust America, Silver frames his central argument: though in Exodus Uris simplified some facts and distorted others, he provided a vast amount of information about Jewish history and popularized the Zionist narrative, providing examples of Jewish heroism that erased more conventional, “lachrymose” accounts of Jewish history.[1] ThusExodus played a vital role in the recovery of Jewish self-confidence after the devastation of the Holocaust and inspired American Jews to display openly their ethnic pride in a Jewish state.
Can America Block Iran’s Drive for Regional Hegemony?
The most important conflict in the world today is the Iran-America conflict over the nuclearization of Iran. If there is leadership, resolve, and persistence, along with more sanctions, there is a chance that Iran will have to rethink its policy. Thus, a strong America is a very clear Israeli interest.
An Iranian Intelligence Failure: Arms Ship in Nigeria Reveals Iran’s Penetration of West Africa
Since the Khomeini revolution, Iran has invested heavily in strengthening its diplomatic, economic, and security ties with Western African countries, especially with Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, and Nigeria.
Israel’s Requirements for Defensible Borders
Prepared Statement before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives
The Palestinian UN Gamble – Irresponsible and Ill-Advised
The Palestinian leadership has announced its intention to abandon the negotiation process and to unilaterally seek a UN resolution that will impose a solution upon Israel. Such a resolution would void the very basis of the peace process, undermine the legal existence of the Palestinian Authority, and render meaningless the signatures of the major powers as witnesses to previous agreements.
Israel’s Military Justice System in Times of Terror
Why should Israel keep the rules of engagement and follow international law while fighting terrorists when the terrorists do not ? Israel is a civilized state and the Israeli soldier is not the same as the Palestinian terrorist. Israelis do not shoot at civilians or kill women and children, and they do not put bombs in buses.
Palestinian Incitement as a Violation of International Legal Norms
Officially-sanctioned incitement against Israel and against Jews has become a central theme in all spheres of Palestinian society.
