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International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

International Atomic Energy Agency recognizes Palestine as a country

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The International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement recognizing Palestine as a country, as it joined the nuclear watchdog on Tuesday as an observer. Although it isn’t a member, it is allowed to attend meetings,...
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New Zealand government site omits Israel from map

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A New Zealand government website published a map that omitted Israel and instead showed “Palestine.” The Fact Sheet page on the Immigration New Zealand website labeled East Jerusalem as “the designated capital of the State...

Media Advisory: No cease fire was reached in Gaza this week

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As journalists cover the complexities of the Middle East reportage, news agencies often interpret a lull in hostilities as an “armistice” or a “cease-fire”, which brings to mind to the agreement that led to...

WJC welcomes UNESCO consensus on two decisions related to Israel as ‘important step in...

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NEW YORK – The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Thursday welcomed the consensus reached by the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to adopt two texts agreed to...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaking to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday. Credit: Screenshot.

Truth vs. Slogan in World Law: Disclosing Vital Differences

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"The martyrs are our children and they are our families. They honor us...." (Mahmoud Abbas, PA President, Speech to PLO Central Council, January 14, 2018) Judging from recent comments by Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president,...

Twin perils for Israel: Iranian nuclear weapons and “Palestine”

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"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes, Discourse on Method Although difficult to calibrate or measure, Iranian nuclearization and Palestinian statehood  are likely progressing at roughly the same pace. To be sure, this coincident...

Israeli Jews will never accept Palestinians as equals — Klutznick, chair of Americans for...

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Jim Klutznick, the chairman of the liberal Zionist group Americans for Peace Now (and a political player in Chicago and an early Obama supporter), yesterday dismissed the idea of a one-state outcome in Israel and...

The Shadow of their smile: Home demolitions of terrorists only act as an incentive...

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Incentives for terror include having your house rebuilt after its demolition. Best real estate deal in the Middle East. Imagine the scene. A teenager wakes up in a crowded family home in Halhoul, near Hebron....

All lives matter in Israel-Palestine conflict

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Blaming Israel for everything is a convenient and lazy way out of accepting responsibility. It is admirable for Marthie Momberg (“The plight of Palestine”, City Press, May 14, 2017) to conduct studies about how the...

WORLD American Media Continues to Ignore Historic Hunger Strike Underway in Israeli Prisons

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Since April 17, over 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strike. Each time the political prisoners declare their intention to strike, Israeli authorities put them into solitary confinement. Attorneys for Addameer, a...