JERUSALEM, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Jewish settlement in the heart of Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem has the potential to threaten the advancement of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, according to a new report published by The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. The report, titled: "The Sheikh Jarrah Affair. The Strategic Implications of Jewish Settlement in an Arab Neighborhood in East Jerusalem, indicates that such activities restrict the Israeli government's freedom of action, adding that such moves are not in Israel's vital interests and, in fact, may harm those interests.
CALAIS - For the last year, two sisters from Calais have lived in Israel and experienced Israeli life from an American perspective. Now they are back home, on a two-month break from their Israeli university - and seeing American life from an Israeli perspective.
BEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel With the heavy summer travel season looming, airport directors from U.S. cities this week studied Israel's airline passenger screening system, known as one of the world's toughest and most effective. The visitors noted the main difference between the two countries Israeli security openly employs profiling, singling out passengers for stricter screening based on their appearance or ethnic group, a practice that is banned in the U.S.
Speaking Aug. 8 at St. Thomas More Church, the home of Northern California's Arab-American Catholic Community helmed by Monsignor Labib Kobti, the young graduate related her struggle to complete her education at Bethlehem University, where she began her studies in 2005. Since 2000, Israel has enforced a ban preventing Gaza students from attending universities in the West Bank.
Palestinian Arabs have developed a culture of resistance to the state of Israel not only because the latter was recognized as a state in 1948 but also as a reaction to Israeli colonization in Palestine, the loss of Palestinian land to Israel and the lack of any channel to peacefully state their claims and obtain justice. The history of Palestinian resistance and the effect of the war of 1967 among Palestinians are analyzed.
If I were looking for a prophet in the modern Middle East, I'd beat a path to Dr. Nader Fergany's door. Nine years ago the director of the Almishkat Centre for Research in Cairo co-authored a prescient report on the Arab world for the United Nations. According to the Arab Human Development Report, autocratic regimes in the region were stifling human development in three areas: governance, women's empowerment and access to knowledge. While these conclusions seem self-evident today, it took considerable courage for three Arab scholars to publish them for an international audience in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. When I was studying at the Foreign Service Institute in preparation for a diplomatic assignment in Israel, the director of Middle East studies was a German Arabist who mainta...
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