NY Israel Conflict Examiner

J Street debates Alan Dershowitz: Part 1. Framing the issues

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:35:11 -0700

A.P. photo/ Sang Tan -- Palestine but omitting JordanA full theater mostly of emotive fellow Jews was welded to the seats as Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz debated Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street, on Sunday, November 21, at the 92nd St. YMHA in Manh...

J Street debates Alan Dershowitz: Part 2. J Street reviewed

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:34:45 -0700

[One might have expected Dershowitz to make a devastating denunciation of J Street for being a pro-Muslim organization, but he was in an accommodating mood.] Dershowitz belatedly and tepidly raised two issues about J Street’s bona f...

J Street debates Alan Dershowitz: Part 3. Cause of the conflict

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:34:11 -0700

Dershowitz calls the Arab-Israel conflict the Muslim-Israel conflict, because a major participant is Iran. [Actually, the whole Muslim world sides with jihad, whether avowedly radical or supposedly moderate.]Ben-Ami more or less stated the usua...

J Street debates Alan Dershowitz: Part 4. Propriety of friends criticizing Israel

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:33:44 -0700

A.P. photo/ Ron Edward -- Dershowitz praised Obama, Ben-Ami, SaudisDershowitz declared it Israel’s right, for being on the front lines, to decide when and how to defend itself. Therefore, American Jews may debate other Israeli policies, ...

Hizbullah lists new manifesto, against Phalange Christians

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:28:20 -0700

Hizbullah has issued a new manifesto. The new document proposes to establish an Islamic regime and punish the Christian Phalangists (www.imra.org.il, 11/19).

For more on Hizbullah’s role in Lebanon, click here

Radical Muslims in Manhattan

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:22:37 -0700

Outside the mosque at 96th St. and Lexington Ave. in Manhattan, one can hear support for violence against the U.S.. [Not when I walked past.] That is legally protected speech – no clear and present danger of violence. Tha...

Why did FBI ignore Radical Muslim terrorists?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:22:04 -0700

A.P. photo/ Nidal Hasan Center for Study of Traumatic Stress“Sen. Joe Lieberman (I.Conn.) chairman of the Senate homeland security panel …wants to find out why a joint FBI and Pentagon program to locate domestic terrorists in the milita...

Gaza charity offers bounty on kidnapping Israeli soldiers

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:21:37 -0700

A.P. Photo/ Hatem Moussas -- Hamas leaderThe Waad charity from Gaza is headed by Hamas’ Interior Minister. Waad offers $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who kidnaps an Israeli soldier. This is the first time that money was...

Israel resists Israeli and Palestinian Arab links to Iran

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:21:07 -0700

Israel has barred certain Israeli and Palestinian Arabs from leaving the country, including on pilgrimage to Mecca, lest they forge links with Iran. One such Israeli Arab was a former mayor of Umm-el-Fahm, sentenced to jail for transferrin...

How fares U.S. diplomacy in China, Iran, Latin America?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:20:29 -0700

A.P. photo/ Charles Dharapak -- at Wall not called "apartheid"President Obama visited China on a diplomatic mission. The government there kept Obama mostly out of the public view, and dissidents locked up out of Obama’s view.&n...

European sports officials rude to Israeli fencing champions

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:20:02 -0700

European sports officials have been rude to Israel’s champion fencing team. The custom at sports events is to play the winners’ national anthems when awarding them medals. First in Sweden and then in Austria, when the Isr...

Announcement of talk on nuclear Iran

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:09 -0700

United Against Nuclear Iran and Bipartisan Policy Center to Hold Discussion on U.S. Iran Policy at 92nd Street Y Senators Daniel Coats and Charles Robb and General Chuck Wald Warn Time is Running out for Negotiating with Iran New York, NY -...

New peace plan by Israeli leaders Peres and Barak

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:43:57 -0700

A.P. photo/ Ariel Hermony -- Barak in middleIsrael’s President Peres and Defense Min. Barak proposed a new plan that they say would bring peace. The plan would give the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) sovereignty over half of Judea-Samaria ...

Bedouin intifada in southern Israel

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:40:12 -0700

A.P. photo/ Muhammed Muheisen -- traditional Bedouin breadBedouin in southern Israel have increasingly conducted an Intifada against the personnel of the Nevatim Air Force Base in the Negev, in southern Israel. It is Israel largest base....

Why those demolitions in Jerusalem

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:38:59 -0700

A.P. photo/ Dan Balilty -- demolition equipment“The municipality noted that it is also destroying illegal structures in the Arab sector. Three buildings were demolished Wednesday: a structure, 90 square meters in size, that was built on ...

Saudi-Yemen war expanding

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:37:38 -0700

A.P. photo -- Saudi border patrolThe Saudi-Yemen rebel war is expanding. S. Arabia has evacuated 400 villages from its border areas. It is trying to keep the surviving rebel troops from spreading out and forcing S. Arabia to spread out i...

Jordan asks U.S. Jews to favor Arab statehood

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:35:51 -0700

A.P. photo/ Mohammed Abu Ghosh -- King Abdullah in suitKing Abdullah of Jordan asked visiting members of the American Jewish Congress to support a peace that guarantees the rights of Palestinian Arabs and a state, which also would guarantee Israel&r...

IDF fires back into Gaza

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:48 -0700

A.P. photo/ Eyad Baba -- where tunnel was struck“Overnight, Israeli aircraft successfully targeted a weapons-manufacturing facility in the southern Gaza Strip and two smuggling tunnels in the Rafah border area. The attacks wer...

Israel plans 5,000 apartments for Arabs in Jerusalem

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:29:14 -0700

A.P. photo/ Dan Balilty -- construction in JerusalemJerusalem plans to build 5,000 housing units for Arabs in the eastern part of Jerusalem (www.imra.org.il, 8/11). Will the Palestinian Authority complain that Israel has no right to...

Palestinian Authority urges boycott of Jerusalem trolley construction

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:14:39 -0700

A.P. photo/ Sebastian Scheiner -- Arabs moving into Jewish areasJerusalem is planning a city-wide, light rail system, using foreign contractors whom the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) is trying to compel to withdraw from the project. The stated ...