Some 550 Palestinians were released from Israeli jails in the second stage of the prisoner swap for captured soldier Gilad Shalit.The prisoners, including six women, were handed over by Israel on Sunday night. They left from the Ayalon Prison near Tel...
Just when it seems that the Palestinian people cannot not be more ill-served by its so-called "official leadership," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal have again proved their ineptitude. The question is, are...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 28, 2011
There have been oceans of ink, forests of paper and countless electronic communications about last week's drama at the United Nations, where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presented a formal request to the United Nations Security Council...
By Ron Kampeas, JTA, WASHINGTON
• Published September 28, 2011
After the mutual accusations of ethnic cleansing and the sarcastic posturing, the ball is back in the Palestinians' court. The upshot of last week's Lollapalooza of speechmaking at the United Nations is that the Obama administration has succeeded in persuading...
"I sent the club a wire stating, ‘Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.'" - Groucho MarxGroucho's form of comedy can best be described as calculated anarchy. He and his brothers struck fiercely...
The Palestinian Authority is using a year-old qualified statement by President Obama in a campaign for support for its statehood recognition bid. "When we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that can lead to a new member of the United...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 7, 2011
After recently returning from Israel, Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., met with local Jewish leaders last week and stressed that while he has long supported a two-state solution in which Israel would peacefully exist with Palestine, he opposes efforts by the...
By Uriel Heilman, JTA, NEW YORK
• Published August 17, 2011
On Sept. 20, when the annual session of the U.N. General Assembly opens, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to present a Palestinian request for statehood recognition to the U.N. Security...
By Leslie Susser, JTA, Jerusalem
• Published June 22, 2011
The pressure on Mahmoud Abbas to back down from plans to seek recognition of Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September is intensifying.Squeezed by a combination of concerted American pressure and intense Israeli diplomacy, some top Palestinian...
Faculty: Block Yeshiva is a community treasureWe, the general studies facilities at Louis and Sarah Block Yeshiva High School, would like to share some of our impressions with the St. Louis Jewish community.Collectively we have invested over 150 years...
JERUSALEM — It was a sign that ties between the Obama and Netanyahu administrations remain strong despite the apparent tensions two weeks ago when the two leaders met at the White House. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shot...
They said Bibi was different this time, that he had changed, grown, matured. They said he better understood the world stage, his place in history. The truth? We're not so sure. We don't in any way doubt Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intentions,...
