Monthly Archives: January 2017
Abbas adviser: Without hope for a Palestinian state, ‘PA would collapse’
Jpost – Arab-Israeli Conflict By Adam Rasgon 29 January 2017 All political agreements between Israel and the Palestinian leadership would collapse, if the hope of establishing a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital was lost, a senior Palestinian … Continue reading
Comment: Trump, the Mideast conflict and the Jordanian option
Jpost – Opinion By HILLEL FRISCH, YITZHAK SOKOLOFF 29 January 2017 Instead of the fixation on an independent Palestinian state, the new administration should look east to the Hashemite Kingdom as a stabilizing influence on Palestinian politics. King Abdullah. (photo … Continue reading
Seventy-two years after the Holocaust, UN chief ‘extremely concerned’ by discrimination
Jpost – Diaspora By Danielle Ziri 27 January 2017 Noah Klieger in the UN General Assembly Hall with his grandson Yuval and Ambassador Danon. (photo credit:HAREL RINTZLER) NEW YORK – At a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the liberation … Continue reading
Trump admn debates designating Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group
By REUTERS 27 January 2017 WASHINGTON – A debate is under way in the Trump administration about whether the United States should declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and subject it to US sanctions, according to US officials and … Continue reading
Eminent Domain in Jewish Law
Can the government take private property? By Yehuda Shurpin Eminent domain traditionally refers to the power of a state or a national government to take private property for public use. However, in the controversial 2005 U.S. Supreme Court case known … Continue reading
Justice for those who have endured
Jpost – Opinion By Rabbi YECHIEL ECKSTEIN 26 January 2017 Holocaust survivors take part in a World Jewish Congress photo project for remembrance day.. (photo credit:WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS) This January 27, nations around the world mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, … Continue reading
The Crusader revival: Banning Jews from the heart of Jerusalem
Jpost – Opinion By Shlomo Slonim 25 January 2017 UN Security Council resolution 2334 of December 23, 2016 is designed to redivide Jerusalem and to stamp Israeli authority, currently exercised throughout the city, as illegal. In effect, it would put … Continue reading
