Many years ago, I heard a speaker – a self-proclaimed Zionist – taking HaTikvah to task. In her opinion, it didn’t speak to the Zionist dream, the true feeling of the Jewish heart aching to return home, or the mission of Zionism. She suggested that The Impossible Dreamfrom the hit Broadway musical ...

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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict May 18-24, 2011

On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's arrival in the United States and during his visit, American President Barack Obama gave two speeches, one at the State Department and the other at a policy conference of ...

Read more: Israeli Palestinian Confrontation, May 25, 2011

In a speech to the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday morning, President Obama tried to offer some clarification to his remarks on Thursday at the State Department where he stated that “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually ...

Read more: Obama ‘Clarifies’ 1967 Border Demands

In light of President Obama's speech calling on Israel to return to the  1967 borders, the upcoming September initiative  by Palestinian operatives, such as terrorist groups, Fatah, Hamas and terror chiefs, such as Abbas at the U.N. will need to be exposed.  The United Nations cannot ...

Read more: Countdown to September: Israel, the Palestinians, and the UN General Assembly

The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps…. The ...

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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict(May 10-17, 2011)

Nakba Day was marked in the territories and Arab countries by mass marches, rallies, demonstrations and propaganda displays. In several locations the demonstrations became violent. In Tel Aviv, an Israeli Arab driving a truck ...

Read more: Israeli Palestinian Confrontation, May 18, 2011

Sunday’s Nakba Day was marked with bloodshed. At least fifteen people were killedwhen Palestinian demonstrators clashed with the Israeli military on Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The Iranian and Syrian regimes chose to use this holiday to whip up the ...

Read more: Iran, Syria and the Assault on Israel

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 Jewish state after five-and-a-half months of warfare, Palestinian Arabs called upon their brethren from seven surrounding countries to ...

Read more: Had There Been No War, There Would Be No Nakba