By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 31, 2019
Simply stated, Yousef Bashir’s memoir “The Words of My Father: Love and Pain in Palestine” is worth reading because the attitude of this Palestinian from an old, established Gaza family is not what we might expect, given his experiences during...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting concerning issues in the Middle East, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Feb. 20, 2018. Abbas is also the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization....
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published October 19, 2016
Is it possible that the Jewish Mexican ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was fired from his post for NOT being anti-Semitic?It’s not only possible, but entirely likely. In a resolution adopted...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published June 15, 2016
“ ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.” — Jeremiah 8:11“Better to jaw-jaw than to war-war,” said British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a White House visit in 1954. Indeed the master statesman of the 20th century preferred...
WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden chided terrorists in his network for not making Palestine a primary issue. "It was necessary to discuss Palestine first," the terrorist leader, assassinated last year in a U.S. operation, said after a December 2009 suicide...
By Rafael Medoff, JTA
• Published January 26, 2012
WASHINGTON—A Palestinian mufti has called for violence against Jews, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding Palestinian leaders disavow him and America's presidential race could be affected. That could be the lead sentence of a news...
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...
