Middle East

By Aryeh Savir and Ehud Amiton ARIEL, Israel  — In the wake of the European Union’s challenging resolution to boycott the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and to terminate all financial contacts with them, foreign journalists toured the Barkan Industrial Park and Ariel University in Samaria last week (July 29), an event organized by

NEW YORK (Press Release) –An edict by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khameni, urged all Iranians to avoid dealings with the Baha’i sect and called them “deviant and misleading.” “Such actions and statements are a warning for potential danger,” said Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO of the Conference of

  WASHINGTON, D.C.  (Press Release)–The U.S. State Department on Sunday issued the following announcement about forthcoming talks between representatives of Israel and the Palestinian Authority: “Today, Secretary Kerry spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and personally extended an invitation to send senior negotiating teams to Washington to formally resume

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California– After six trips to the Middle-East, Secretary of State Kerry, using the “carrot” for the Palestinians and the ” stick” to the Israelis, finally convinced them to come to Washington to “talk” about “reviving the peace process” that had been boycotted by Mahmoud Abbas for four and a

By Jonathan Licht, M.D. DEL MAR, California — My mother was born in 1930 and was a Zionist, a person who believed in establishing a Jewish homeland.  My father was a computer scientist when computers took up an entire room.  In 1960 he was asked to install for the Israel Defense Force their first computer.  I was seven and even