The Territories
Judea, Samaria and Gaza in law
124 essays
Nakba. The Arab Self-Inflicted Catastrophe
Examination of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and Palestinian displacement as a consequence of Arab military action and the Arab League’s April 1948 invasion decision.
Rabin: More Than Meets the Eye
Today, 18 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and 18 years after his tragic death, Yitzhak Rabin was lauded by President Barack Obama as a man of peace and …
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 …
How Israel's Enemies Misrepresent the Geneva Convention
An examination of how critics misapply Article 49 of the Geneva Convention to Israeli settlements, contradicting authoritative legal scholars and the convention’s …
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 …
THE MANDATE FOR PALESTINE STILL MATTERS
Israelis and friends of the Jewish State alike are accustomed to the never-ending scorn the United Nations heaps on the Middle East’s only free democracy, never …
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 …
To the Members of the U.K.'s Theater and Film Industries
Open letter to UK theatre and film industry members addressing opposition to Israeli National Theatre Habima’s invitation to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, …
Artificially Created States
The League of Nations unanimously recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine. Yet modern Arab states like Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq …
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 …
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 …
Had There Been No War, There Would Be No Nakba.
**Starting a civil war in 1947 after the Arabs rejected the United Nations Partition Plan, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the conflict. Rather than accept a …
PA Drafts UN Resolution
Calls for a freeze on Jewish construction in disputed Territories are biased when Arab construction continues unfettered, and Jewish settlements are legal under the Oslo …
Have We Lost Sight of Rabin's Vision?
Excerpts from Yitzhak Rabin’s final speech to the Knesset reveal his realistic vision for Israeli-Palestinian peace, including a Jewish state, united Jerusalem, and …
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 …
Letter To MK Haneen Zoabi
Dear MK Haneen Zoabi, The Israeli Parliament revoked some of your political privileges, citing your consistent support of Israel’s worst enemies. You claim you are …
Obama Against the Will of His Predecessors
Before the Zionist movement assumed concrete form, among the first to express approval of the return of the Jews to Palestine was John Adams, the second President of the …
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 …
What is there to celebrate?
On Israel’s 60th anniversary, examining the UN Partition Plan and the true legal basis for Israeli statehood.
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 …
'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.
To Condi; Who is Humiliating Whom?
On October 11, 2006 in a Keynote Address to the American Task Force on Palestine,[1] Secretary Condoleezza Rice claimed that Palestinian Arabs feel ‘daily …
'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 …
UN Resolution 181 - November 29, 1947
In 1947 the British put the future of western Palestine into the hands of the United Nations, the successor organization to the League of Nations which had established …
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 …
Mandate For Palestine - The Legal Aspects of Jewish Rights
“When it is asked what is meant by the development of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, it may be answered that it is not the imposition of a Jewish nationality upon …
90th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAN REMO CONFERENCE
Granting the right under international law for Jews to settle anywhere in western Palestine - the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea