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- “God’s Warriors” disappoints
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- 10,000 BRITISH PASSPORTS ISSUED FRAUDULENTLY
- 1948 ARAB-ISRAEL WAR
- 1967 & ITS CONSEQUENCES
- 24/7 nuclear inspections OR 24 day notice. We can’t have both
- A brave Muslim woman speaks out
- A FEW SEARCH TIPS
- A JORDANIAN JOURNALIST ON ISRAEL
- A love story that survived the Holocaust – Joseph (Yosef) Gelbart
- A RESPONSE TO 18 SA JEWS
- A response to the Independent re Deir Yassin
- A video glimpse behind the 1947 UN resolution leading to the birth of Israel
- About Maurice Ostroff
- About this Site
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- Amendments to strengthen the Iran Nuclear deal
that should be uncontroversial - American thinker
- Amnesty International – please help relieve the suffering of families of kidnapped soldiers
- An alternative view of the Hamas victory
- An appeal to Judge Goldstone to review the report of the mission to Gaza
- An Arab view of the refugee tragedy
- An Arab view of the refugee tragedy
- An Israeli Artilleryman’s experiences
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- AN OPEN LETTER TO AP REPORTERS
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- An open letter to Human Rights Watch’s Fred Abrahams
- AN OPEN LETTER TO JUDGE ALBIE SACHS
- An open letter to Judge Goldstone re Cast Lead statistics
- AN OPEN LETTER TO JUSTICE CHASKALSON
- An open letter to Larry Derfner
- An open letter to Mary Robinson
- AN OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE GOLDSTONE MISSION WHO DISGREE WITH HIS RE-EVALUATION
- An open letter to NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
- AN OPEN LETTER TO NY TIMES COLUMNIST, TOM FRIEDMAN
- An open letter to Professor Gideon Shimoni
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- An open letter to S. African Minister of Trade and Industry re labelling of West Bank products
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- An open letter to the president of NATFHE
- An open letter to veteran journalist Paul McGeough about the Gaza flotilla
- An open reply to Martin Chulov re bombing of Red Cross ambulances
- AN OPEN REPLY TO PROFESSORS BOESAK AND ESACK
- AN OPEN RESONSE TO JUDGE GOLDSTONE
- An open response to Atlantic columnist
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- An open response to Judge Goldstone re the UN Mission’s report on Gaza – Part 2
- An open response to Judge Goldstone’s interview with Bill Moyers on PBS
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- APARTHEID, ISRAEL & SOUTH AFRICA
- ARAB COMMENTATORS
- Arab intellectuals on the Palestinian refugee question
- Arab intellectuals on the Palestinian refugee question
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- Arafat’s strategy long before 1967
- Archbishop Tutu – please be fair
- Archbishop Tutu appeals to Jewish journalist who turned her back on her religion
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- ARTHUR GOLDREICH – A TRIBUTE
- ARTICLE BY ALON LIEL AND PROF. STEINBERG’S REJECTED RESPONSE
- Articles by Eugene W. Rostow
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- B’TSELEM
- B’TSELEM’S FLAWED CASUALTY FIGURES
- B’TSELEM’S FLAWED STATISTICS CONTINUED
- B’Tselem’s response
- BDS and counterproductive boycotts
- Behavior of Israeli Soldiers
- BOTH PAKISTAN AND GAZA CALL FOR AID
- BOYCOTTS, DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS (BDS)
- Briitish foreign policy and Muslim extremism
- British Jews refuse to celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary
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- BRITISH MILITARY EXPERT’S ASSESSMENT OF THE ISRAEL ARMY IN 2009 & HIS JUNE 2011 UPDATE
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of the Crime of Genocide - Correcting the new historians about 1948
- Correspondence with Arun Gandhi (Mahatma’s grandson)
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- DEALING WITH IRAN
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- Declaration of Human Rights
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- Derfner’s reply and a follow-up
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- Disputed territories around the world
- DO THE PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT OF RETURN?
- DOCUMENTS & ARTICLES
- Dorothy Naor replies re Chief Rabbi Goldstein and Professors Boesak and Esack
- Dorothy Naor responds
- DRAFT Obama says Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel
- Dubai – Security failure
- DURBAN II & THE GENEVA SUMMIT
- Egypt and the Jews
- ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION IN LEBANON IS NOT CALLED APARTHEID. WHY?
- Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits – part 2
- Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits – Part 1
- Evaluation of, and submissions to
The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza war - Extend the boycotts
- Eyeless in Gaza
- FACTOIDS AND THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT OF RETURN
- Facts about Israel and the old apartheid South Africa
- Facts do support Israels’ claims of self-defense
- FACTS DON”T MATTER WHEN BLAMING THE JEWS
- FATAH-HAMAS RECONCILIATION AND GILAD SHALIT
- FLOTILLA ACTIVIST ADMITS IT’S NOT A HUMAMNATARIAN OPERATION
- Follow-up to open letter to NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
- Former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs criticizes the media
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- FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION
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- Geneva Convention re prisoners of war
- Gilo, settlements and the Green Line in perspective
- God’s Warriors – One page Summary
- HAMAS & THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Harvesting human organs
- Has Finkelstein justiifid an economic boycott of Israel?
- Honest Reporting on “God’s Warriors”
- How debate audiences make up their minds – a study
- How did the Lebanon conflagration start?
- How the media misreported from Gaza
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- Human Rights Watch and the Kenneth Roth Brouhaha
- Incitement – Teaching an infant to hate
- INCITEMENT – The root cause of violence
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- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT
- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SETTLEMENTS
- Iranian leaders must be punished in terms of UN resolution 260 (III) A
- Is British foreign policy fueling Muslim extremism?
- Is Israel an apartheid state?
- Is it worth it,Sheik Nasrallah?
- ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
- ISLAMOPHOBIA OR SERIOUS THREAT?
- Israel and the Palestinians
- Israel congratulates South African Ambassador on Freedom Day
- Israel didn’t fire into UNRWA school
- ISRAEL IN CONTEXT
- Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement 1949
- Israeli cooperation with Black leaders during the apartheid era
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- Jerusalem Post
- Jews for Peace misquote facts in lambasting Israel
- Jimmy Carter on Palestine Peace and Apartheid
- John Mearsheimer – The lobby falters (March 2009)
- Judge Goldstone and Gilad Shalit
- Judge Goldstone at Stanford University panel on January 20, 2011
- Judge Goldstone defended by his colleagues and a response
- Judge Goldstone encountered no allegations of organ stealing
- Judge Goldstone’s defence of Human Rights Watch
- Judge Goldstone’s defence of Human Rights Watch
- Judge Goldstone’s response to part 1
- Judgment on Goldstone by David Kaplan in the Jerusalem Post
- Kofi Anan accuses Israel of deliberately targeting UN outpost
- LA Times and Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch
- Larry Derfner continued (October 2007)
- LEBANON & HEZBOLLAH
- LETTER ABOUT MAURICE OSTROFF IN JERUSALEM POST
- Letter from a soldier on Gaza border re African refugees
- Letter to International Herald Tribune re misleading photo caption and headline
- Letter to NY Sun re Human Rights Watch
- Letter to NY Times in response to “scientists praise nuclear deal”
- LETTER TO THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
- Machal-Nachal Reunion, October 10, 2006
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- Mearsheimer and Walt
- Mearsheimer and Walt accuse presidential candidates of pandering
- Mearsheimer and Walt’s reply to critics in the London Review of Books (May 5, 2006)
- MEDIA
DISTORTIONS - Media fraud – Bloggers expose evident deliberate media misinformation
- Media Fraud exposed in videos
- Memo to UK Parliamentary Select Committee 2004
- Memo to UK Parliamentary Select Committee 2006
- Memo to UN Fact-finding mission re Gilad Shalit and Incitement
- Memorable quotes
- Memoranda to UK Parliament
- Memorandum number three to the Goldstone Mission
- Memorandum to the Human Rights Council
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- MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE – IN DUBAI
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- Open letter to academic boycott of Israel advocate, Tanya Reinhart
- Open letter to Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith
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- Open letter to Rt. Hon. David Miliband,
- Open letter to South African Ambassador to Israel, Fumanekile Gqiba
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- Open letter to the General Secretary, The International Trade Union Confederation
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- PM NETANYAHU’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS MAY 24 2011
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- Proof- Hezbollah fires from among civilians
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- REQUEST BY UN WATCH THAT PROF. SCHABAS RECUSE HIMSELF
- Resolution 338
- RESOLUTION S/9-1 OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
- Response by Faadiel ibn Suleiman re Palestine against the wall
- Response by Professsor Heap
- Response memo to Methodist Church of Britain
- RESPONSE TO “LICENSE TO KILL”
- Response to a letter by British Jews urging PM Gordon Brown to endorse the Goldstone Report
- Response to a letter by SA Jews to the Minister of Trade and Industry
- Response to Prof.Seaford’s refusal to review Israeli’s book
- Response to Red Cross attack on Australian Foreign Minister Downer
- Response to Scottish Jews who condemmn Israel
- Response to The Guardian on Israel-South Africa nuclear cooperation
- Response to the South African government’s statement on Gilo
- ROME STATUTE
- Ronnie Kasrils on myths
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- Scary education prospects
- Scary education prospects in Britain
- Scottish Jews demand Israel halt actions in Gaza
- SCOTTISH PROFESSOR RESPONDS TO ISRAEL BOYCOTT CALL
- SCOTTISH PROFESSOR RESPONDS TO ISRAEL BOYCOTT CALL
- Secretary of State Rogers, addressing an Adult Education Conference in Washington
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- Setting the record straight about 1948
- SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT THE GOLDSTONE OPED
- Sheik Jarrah Evictions
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- South African Jews Against Apartheid
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- TEST
- The 1948 War of Independence in a nutshell
- The 1948 War of Indepenence in maps
- The Algemeiner
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- THE APARTHEID EPITHET AND BDS
- THE APARTHEID EPITHET AND BDS
- The Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate on Palestine
- The bombing of Beirut in perspective
- The Doha Debates – did Hezbollah have the right to drag Lebanon into a war?
- The facts about 1948 – An open reply to Dr. Paul Hendler
- THE FORWARD IS MISTAKEN ABOUT SOUTH AFRICAN JEWS AND APARTHEID
- THE FULLER PICTURE
- The GAZA OPERATION and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
- The GAZA OPERATION and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
- The Gaza War 2014
- The Gaza wars in context
- THE GOLDSTONE MISSION TO GAZA 2009
- The green line
- The Guardian on Israel and South Africa’s nuclear program
- The Guardian re Goldstone and pollution of argument
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- The ICC and Israel
- THE IMMINENT UN REPORT ON GAZA
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- The Power of Political Misinformation
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What the report should have told us but didn’t - The UN report on the 2014 Gaza war part 4: Comments by a man who knows what he is talking about – Colonel Richard Justin Kemp CBE
- The UN report part 1
Who is more credible in evaluating a military operation? - The UN report Part 3: The blockade of Gaza
- The VW debacle: is it the tip of an iceberg?
- The wars in Gaza 2014
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- TWO SHRINES – (IRAN AND ISRAEL)
- UN CHARTER
- Update on Zombietime’s research on the Red Cross Ambulance hoax
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of UN inquiry into 2014 Gaza war - Victims can now sue supporters of apartheid – Latest news
- Video memorandum from Maurice Ostroff to the UN Commission on Gaza 2014
- Was the Qana tragedy staged?
- Washington Post re Getting tough on Israel
- What is a “factoid”?
- WHAT THE MEDIA DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT GAZA AND THE BLOCKADE
- What the professors should have told us, but didn’t
- When Jews were forbidden to blow the shofar at their holiest site
- Why bother to check the content and implications
before concluding an agreement? - Why did the UN report on the 2014 Gaza war ignore these military experts?
- Will Kerry’s framework honor Rabin’s legacy?
- WOW! The Guardian apologizes
- Yediot article about Maurice Ostroff
- YNET AND YEDIOT
- YOUTUBE
- #10 (no title)
- “God’s Warriors” disappoints
- “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” (Mark Twain)
- “RIGHT OF RETURN” and RESOLUTION 194
- 10 things you should know about the Iran nuke deal
- 10 things you should know about Netanyahu’s speech to congress
- 10,000 BRITISH PASSPORTS ISSUED FRAUDULENTLY
- 1948 ARAB-ISRAEL WAR
- 1967 & ITS CONSEQUENCES
- 24/7 nuclear inspections OR 24 day notice. We can’t have both
- A brave Muslim woman speaks out
- A FEW SEARCH TIPS
- A JORDANIAN JOURNALIST ON ISRAEL
- A love story that survived the Holocaust – Joseph (Yosef) Gelbart
- A RESPONSE TO 18 SA JEWS
- A response to the Independent re Deir Yassin
- A video glimpse behind the 1947 UN resolution leading to the birth of Israel
- About Maurice Ostroff
- About this Site
- ACADEMIC FREEDOM
- Academic Freedom
- Academic freedom and sloppy research about the Israel Lobby
- ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE
- ACADEMIC FREEDOM VS VOLTAIRE
- ALLISTER SPARKS – RABBI GOLDSTEIN AND JUDGE GOLDSTONE
- Amendments to strengthen the Iran Nuclear deal
that should be uncontroversial - American thinker
- Amnesty International – please help relieve the suffering of families of kidnapped soldiers
- An alternative view of the Hamas victory
- An appeal to Judge Goldstone to review the report of the mission to Gaza
- An Arab view of the refugee tragedy
- An Arab view of the refugee tragedy
- An Israeli Artilleryman’s experiences
- An open letter to
Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg (part 2) - An open letter to a company that rejected an order from a long-standing Zionist customer
- AN OPEN LETTER TO AP REPORTERS
- An open letter to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- An open letter to B’Tselem
- An open letter to BBC’s Tim Sebastian
- An open letter to Benjamin Pogrund re allegations Israel supplied nuclear weapons to apartheid SA
- An open letter to Christiane Amanpour
- An open letter to Cosatu President, Willie Madisha
- An open letter to Dar Al-Hayat-LBC political editor, Zaki Chehab
- An open letter to Gideon Levy of Haaretz and Larry Derfner of the Jerusalem Post
- An open letter to Human Rights Watch’s Fred Abrahams
- AN OPEN LETTER TO JUDGE ALBIE SACHS
- An open letter to Judge Goldstone re Cast Lead statistics
- AN OPEN LETTER TO JUSTICE CHASKALSON
- An open letter to Larry Derfner
- An open letter to Mary Robinson
- AN OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE GOLDSTONE MISSION WHO DISGREE WITH HIS RE-EVALUATION
- An open letter to NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
- AN OPEN LETTER TO NY TIMES COLUMNIST, TOM FRIEDMAN
- An open letter to Professor Gideon Shimoni
- An open letter to Professor Rachel Giora of Tel Aviv University
- An open letter to S. African Minister of Trade and Industry re labelling of West Bank products
- An open letter to South African Minister Ronnie Kasrils
- An open letter to South African Minister Ronnie Kasrils
- An Open Letter to the Arab World by Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon
- An open letter to the authors of the Chatham House Report on the Goldstone Report
- An Open letter to the oped editor of the EU Observer
- An open letter to the president of CUPE
- An open letter to the president of NATFHE
- An open letter to veteran journalist Paul McGeough about the Gaza flotilla
- An open reply to Martin Chulov re bombing of Red Cross ambulances
- AN OPEN REPLY TO PROFESSORS BOESAK AND ESACK
- AN OPEN RESONSE TO JUDGE GOLDSTONE
- An open response to Atlantic columnist
Jeffrey Goldberg (part 1) - An open response to Judge Goldstone re the UN Mission’s report on Gaza – Part 1
- An open response to Judge Goldstone re the UN Mission’s report on Gaza – Part 2
- An open response to Judge Goldstone’s interview with Bill Moyers on PBS
- AN UNSEEMLY RUSH TO JUDGMENT
- APARTHEID, ISRAEL & SOUTH AFRICA
- ARAB COMMENTATORS
- Arab intellectuals on the Palestinian refugee question
- Arab intellectuals on the Palestinian refugee question
- Arab students speak about apartheid in Israel
- Arab views of Hamas
- Arafat’s strategy long before 1967
- Archbishop Tutu – please be fair
- Archbishop Tutu appeals to Jewish journalist who turned her back on her religion
- ARCHIVE
- ARTHUR GOLDREICH – A TRIBUTE
- ARTICLE BY ALON LIEL AND PROF. STEINBERG’S REJECTED RESPONSE
- Articles by Eugene W. Rostow
- AVRAHAM BURG
- B’TSELEM
- B’TSELEM’S FLAWED CASUALTY FIGURES
- B’TSELEM’S FLAWED STATISTICS CONTINUED
- B’Tselem’s response
- BDS and counterproductive boycotts
- Behavior of Israeli Soldiers
- BOTH PAKISTAN AND GAZA CALL FOR AID
- BOYCOTTS, DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS (BDS)
- Briitish foreign policy and Muslim extremism
- British Jews refuse to celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary
- BRITISH JOURNALISTS BOYCOTT ISRAEL
- BRITISH MILITARY EXPERT’S ASSESSMENT OF THE ISRAEL ARMY IN 2009 & HIS JUNE 2011 UPDATE
- Brutal child-killer welcomed as hero
- CAN GEORGE MITCHELL REPLICATE HIS SUCCESS IN N. IRELAND?
- Canadian university president slammed for accepting JNF award
- Cartoons (Dry Bones)
- Chris McGreal’s attack on Israel in the Guardian
- Clinton’s parameters
- CNN’s DOCUMENTARY – GOD’S WARRIORS
- Complete text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the nuclear agreement
- Connecting the dots
- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide - Correcting the new historians about 1948
- Correspondence with Arun Gandhi (Mahatma’s grandson)
- Covenant of the League of Nations
- DEALING WITH IRAN
- DEALING WITH POST-DISENGAGEMENT PRESSURES
- Declaration of Human Rights
- DEIR YASSIN – startling evidence
- Derfner’s reply and a follow-up
- Disputed territories around the world
- Disputed territories around the world
- DO THE PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT OF RETURN?
- DOCUMENTS & ARTICLES
- Dorothy Naor replies re Chief Rabbi Goldstein and Professors Boesak and Esack
- Dorothy Naor responds
- DRAFT Obama says Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel
- Dubai – Security failure
- DURBAN II & THE GENEVA SUMMIT
- Egypt and the Jews
- ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION IN LEBANON IS NOT CALLED APARTHEID. WHY?
- Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits – part 2
- Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits – Part 1
- Evaluation of, and submissions to
The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza war - Extend the boycotts
- Eyeless in Gaza
- FACTOIDS AND THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT OF RETURN
- Facts about Israel and the old apartheid South Africa
- Facts do support Israels’ claims of self-defense
- FACTS DON”T MATTER WHEN BLAMING THE JEWS
- FATAH-HAMAS RECONCILIATION AND GILAD SHALIT
- FLOTILLA ACTIVIST ADMITS IT’S NOT A HUMAMNATARIAN OPERATION
- Follow-up to open letter to NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
- Former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs criticizes the media
- Former Israel Ambassador to South Africa, President Zuma and Gilad Shalit
- FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION
- FP’s writers’ guidelines and Professor Walt’s article on the Israel Lobby
- FUN
- Further correspondence with Judge Goldstone
- Gazans receive medical treatment in Israel
- General Dempsey, the highest ranking US military officer’s opinion on Israel’s 2014 Gaza war
- Geneva Convention re prisoners of war
- Gilo, settlements and the Green Line in perspective
- God’s Warriors – One page Summary
- HAMAS & THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
- Harvesting human organs
- Has Finkelstein justiifid an economic boycott of Israel?
- Honest Reporting on “God’s Warriors”
- How debate audiences make up their minds – a study
- How did the Lebanon conflagration start?
- How the media misreported from Gaza
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- Human Rights Council – Resolution re Gaza Blockade
- Human Rights Watch and the Kenneth Roth Brouhaha
- Incitement – Teaching an infant to hate
- INCITEMENT – The root cause of violence
- INTERNATIONAL LAW
- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT
- INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SETTLEMENTS
- Iranian leaders must be punished in terms of UN resolution 260 (III) A
- Is British foreign policy fueling Muslim extremism?
- Is Israel an apartheid state?
- Is it worth it,Sheik Nasrallah?
- ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
- ISLAMOPHOBIA OR SERIOUS THREAT?
- Israel and the Palestinians
- Israel congratulates South African Ambassador on Freedom Day
- Israel didn’t fire into UNRWA school
- ISRAEL IN CONTEXT
- Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement 1949
- Israeli cooperation with Black leaders during the apartheid era
- It all started when the Israelis hit back
- JEFF HALPER RESPONDS TO “MCCARTHY VS VOLTAIRE” ARTICLE
- Jerusalem Post
- Jews for Peace misquote facts in lambasting Israel
- Jimmy Carter on Palestine Peace and Apartheid
- John Mearsheimer – The lobby falters (March 2009)
- Judge Goldstone and Gilad Shalit
- Judge Goldstone at Stanford University panel on January 20, 2011
- Judge Goldstone defended by his colleagues and a response
- Judge Goldstone encountered no allegations of organ stealing
- Judge Goldstone’s defence of Human Rights Watch
- Judge Goldstone’s defence of Human Rights Watch
- Judge Goldstone’s response to part 1
- Judgment on Goldstone by David Kaplan in the Jerusalem Post
- Kofi Anan accuses Israel of deliberately targeting UN outpost
- LA Times and Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch
- Larry Derfner continued (October 2007)
- LEBANON & HEZBOLLAH
- LETTER ABOUT MAURICE OSTROFF IN JERUSALEM POST
- Letter from a soldier on Gaza border re African refugees
- Letter to International Herald Tribune re misleading photo caption and headline
- Letter to NY Sun re Human Rights Watch
- Letter to NY Times in response to “scientists praise nuclear deal”
- LETTER TO THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
- Machal-Nachal Reunion, October 10, 2006
- Mearsheimer & Walt – unanswered questions – June 2008
- Mearsheimer and Walt
- Mearsheimer and Walt accuse presidential candidates of pandering
- Mearsheimer and Walt’s reply to critics in the London Review of Books (May 5, 2006)
- MEDIA
DISTORTIONS - Media fraud – Bloggers expose evident deliberate media misinformation
- Media Fraud exposed in videos
- Memo to UK Parliamentary Select Committee 2004
- Memo to UK Parliamentary Select Committee 2006
- Memo to UN Fact-finding mission re Gilad Shalit and Incitement
- Memorable quotes
- Memoranda to UK Parliament
- Memorandum number three to the Goldstone Mission
- Memorandum to the Human Rights Council
- MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
- MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE – IN DUBAI
- Niemöller and the spreading of terror
- Obama calls for an undivided Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
- Obama urges Israel to follow Rabin’s footsteps
- OCCUPIED LANDS
- Open letter to academic boycott of Israel advocate, Tanya Reinhart
- Open letter to Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith
- Open letter to Gideon Levy
- Open letter to members of the Association of Democratic Lawyers (S. Africa)
- Open letter to Rt. Hon. David Miliband,
- Open letter to South African Ambassador to Israel, Fumanekile Gqiba
- Open letter to South African Ambassador, H.E. Ismail Coovadia re Gilo
- Open letter to the General Secretary, The International Trade Union Confederation
- PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
- Palestinian refugees, as seen by a woman whose father was assasinated by the Israel army
- PETER BEINART
- Pictures of hate
- PLO’S Ten Point plan
- PM NETANYAHU’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS MAY 24 2011
- President Davenport’s award and his aceptance speech
- Professor Farah’s response
- Professor Mearsheimer responds to Goldberg’s smear
- Professors Mearsheimer and Walt. Follow-up letter of October 8, 2007
- Proof- Hezbollah fires from among civilians
- PUBLISHED ARTICLES
- RABIN ON THE ’67 LINES
- RECENT POSTINGS
- RECOMMENDED LINKS
- Redeem our captive soldiers
- RELEASE OUR CAPTIVES
- REPLY FROM SA MINISTER OF INTELLIGENCE KASRILS and a response
- Reply to Sunday Times re Palestine against the wall
- REQUEST BY UN WATCH THAT PROF. SCHABAS RECUSE HIMSELF
- Resolution 338
- RESOLUTION S/9-1 OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
- Response by Faadiel ibn Suleiman re Palestine against the wall
- Response by Professsor Heap
- Response memo to Methodist Church of Britain
- RESPONSE TO “LICENSE TO KILL”
- Response to a letter by British Jews urging PM Gordon Brown to endorse the Goldstone Report
- Response to a letter by SA Jews to the Minister of Trade and Industry
- Response to Prof.Seaford’s refusal to review Israeli’s book
- Response to Red Cross attack on Australian Foreign Minister Downer
- Response to Scottish Jews who condemmn Israel
- Response to The Guardian on Israel-South Africa nuclear cooperation
- Response to the South African government’s statement on Gilo
- ROME STATUTE
- Ronnie Kasrils on myths
- SA Jewish Report
- Sample Page
- SC Resolution 1515
- Scary education prospects
- Scary education prospects in Britain
- Scottish Jews demand Israel halt actions in Gaza
- SCOTTISH PROFESSOR RESPONDS TO ISRAEL BOYCOTT CALL
- SCOTTISH PROFESSOR RESPONDS TO ISRAEL BOYCOTT CALL
- Secretary of State Rogers, addressing an Adult Education Conference in Washington
- Selected Writings of Stephen M. Schwebel, Judge of International Court of Justice
- Setting the record straight about 1948
- SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT THE GOLDSTONE OPED
- Sheik Jarrah Evictions
- Sitemap
- SOUTH AFRICA TO RE-LABEL PRODUCTS FROM WEST BANK
- SOUTH AFRICA, HAMAS-PLO RECONCILIATION AND GILAD SHALIT
- South African Jews Against Apartheid
- Sowetan
- Status of Jerusalem
- Submision by Colonel Richard Kemp CBE to the 2014 UN Gaza war commission
- Submission by a group of Australian Lawyers to the Goldstone Mission
- Summary of the memorandum to the HRC re the Goldstone Report
- Supplementary memorandum to the Goldstone Mission
- TEST
- The 1948 War of Independence in a nutshell
- The 1948 War of Indepenence in maps
- The Algemeiner
- The Anti-terror Barrier – Where the International Court of Justice went wrong.
- THE ANTI-TERROR CONFERENCE 2007
- THE APARTHEID EPITHET AND BDS
- THE APARTHEID EPITHET AND BDS
- The Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate on Palestine
- The bombing of Beirut in perspective
- The Doha Debates – did Hezbollah have the right to drag Lebanon into a war?
- The facts about 1948 – An open reply to Dr. Paul Hendler
- THE FORWARD IS MISTAKEN ABOUT SOUTH AFRICAN JEWS AND APARTHEID
- THE FULLER PICTURE
- The GAZA OPERATION and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
- The GAZA OPERATION and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
- The Gaza War 2014
- The Gaza wars in context
- THE GOLDSTONE MISSION TO GAZA 2009
- The green line
- The Guardian on Israel and South Africa’s nuclear program
- The Guardian re Goldstone and pollution of argument
- THE HAMAS CONUNDRUM
- The Human Rights Facade
- THE ICC and complementarity
- The ICC and Israel
- THE IMMINENT UN REPORT ON GAZA
- The Incitement is still there – December 2004
- The Iran nuclear deal
- THE ISRAEL ARMY
- The Israel Lobby – London Review of Books – March 2006
- The Israel lobby Brouhaha – An open letter to Professors Mearsheimer and Walt – May 2006
- THE ISRAEL-SOUTH AFRICA NUCLEAR ARMS STORY
- The Legalities in a nutshell
- The main obstacle to a peaceful solution to the Hamas-Israel conflict
- The motivation of Gaza flotilla participants
- THE NATIONHOOD STORM IN A TEACUP
- THE OBSTACLE TO A PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF THE HAMAS-ISRAEL CONFLICT
- THE OCCUPATION
- The occupation in perspective
- The Palestinian application for statehood in a topsy-turvy world
- The power of headlines
- The Power of Political Misinformation
- The puzzling deferral of the UNHRC resolution
- The Road Map
- THE RUSSELL TRIBUNAL
- THE SAN REMO CONFEERENCE IN CONTEXT
- THE SIX-DAY WAR & RESOLUTION 242
- The special matza that saved Kibbutz Sufa
- The stone the builders rejected and the Goldstone report
- The UN fact-finding mission – is it impartial
- The UN report – part 2
What the report should have told us but didn’t - The UN report on the 2014 Gaza war part 4: Comments by a man who knows what he is talking about – Colonel Richard Justin Kemp CBE
- The UN report part 1
Who is more credible in evaluating a military operation? - The UN report Part 3: The blockade of Gaza
- The VW debacle: is it the tip of an iceberg?
- The wars in Gaza 2014
- The West caves in to Iran’s continued refusal
to disclose nuclear information demanded by the IAEA - Times of Israel
- TOPICAL COMMENTS
- Trevor Norwitz analyzes the flaws in the Goldstone report
- Two articles from Australia
- Two shrines
- TWO SHRINES – (IRAN AND ISRAEL)
- UN CHARTER
- Update on Zombietime’s research on the Red Cross Ambulance hoax
- US Congress leaders write to the chairman
of UN inquiry into 2014 Gaza war - Victims can now sue supporters of apartheid – Latest news
- Video memorandum from Maurice Ostroff to the UN Commission on Gaza 2014
- Was the Qana tragedy staged?
- Washington Post re Getting tough on Israel
- What is a “factoid”?
- WHAT THE MEDIA DON’T TELL YOU ABOUT GAZA AND THE BLOCKADE
- What the professors should have told us, but didn’t
- When Jews were forbidden to blow the shofar at their holiest site
- Why bother to check the content and implications
before concluding an agreement? - Why did the UN report on the 2014 Gaza war ignore these military experts?
- Will Kerry’s framework honor Rabin’s legacy?
- WOW! The Guardian apologizes
- Yediot article about Maurice Ostroff
- YNET AND YEDIOT
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Countering bias and Misinformation mainly about the Arab-Israel conflict
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed;
if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." (Mark Twain)
Sadly, Mark Twain's quip is possibly more ...
"God's Warriors" disappoints
First published in THE INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE
"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." (Mark Twain)
This is especially true of the overwhelmingly strident commentaries and "news" reports about the Arab-Israel conflict. On both the left and right, extremism has become the vogue and rational discussion is too often replaced by the loud and the...
"RIGHT OF RETURN" and RESOLUTION 194
Click here for more on the refugees click here to download Myths and Facts about resolution 194 by Eli Hertz
10 things you should know about the Iran nuke deal
By Maurice Ostroff April 7, 2015
1 Alternatives to this deal . War is not the only alternative as some pundits warn. The alternative is a better deal taking into accounts differences in Iranian and US interpretations as well as obvious flaws and...
10 things you should know about Netanyahu's speech to congress
By MAURICE OSTROFF March 11, 2015
It has been interesting to observe how many of the commentators on Netanyahu's speech spend time speculating about his motives while avoiding the substance of the speech they criticize.
As an Israeli I consider ...
10,000 BRITISH PASSPORTS ISSUED FRAUDULENTLY
The almost unanimous finger-pointing at Israel as the only possible culprit in the fraudelent passports used by the Dubai suspects is patently illogical in circumstances, where the British Home office has admitted that thousands of passports have been...
1948 ARAB-ISRAEL WAR
Setting the record straight about 1948 and Smoky Simon's interview
The 1948 Arab-Israel war in a nutshell
Maps of the 1948 Arab-Israel war
Setting the record straight about the 1948 Arab-Israel War Jerusalem Post
Correcting the new...
1967 & ITS CONSEQUENCES
Rabin on the 1967 lines
The six-day war and resolution 242
Dealing with post-disengagement pressures
From Australia - Bren Carlill on "The 40 year war" and "The long and winding war"
More about the occupation
The '67 war in...
24/7 nuclear inspections OR 24 day notice. We can’t have both
Several very disturbing aspects about the Iran nuclear deal have come to light which require clear thinking and firm action by all P5+1 parties to the agreement.
For example it is impossible to reconcile assurances of 24/7 surveillance with the subsequently...
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Capitalisation
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Quotation marks
If you type in the search box, The Doha debate it implies you are seeking the words the OR Doha OR debate...
A JORDANIAN JOURNALIST ON ISRAEL
Published in QUDOSI CHRONICLES
October 6, 2010
A fresh and bold perspective on all things Islam, minus the whiny attitude.
http://qudosi.com/politics/64-mid-east--south-asia/932-israel-the-good-enemy
A love story that survived the Holocaust - Joseph (Yosef) Gelbart
Love Story
David E. Kaplan, THE JERUSALEM POST
Feb. 7, 2007
When Rabbi Herschel Schechter entered Buchenwald he found a frightened eight-year-old boy amongst a pile of corpses. The rabbi burst into tears and then, hoping to reassure the child,...
A response to the Independent re Deir Yassin
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and the BBC video clip
A video glimpse behind the 1947 UN resolution leading to the birth of Israel
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The story behind the 1947 UN partition resolution
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About Maurice Ostroff
Maurice Ostroff is a founder member of the international Coalition of Hasbara Volunteers, better known by its acronym CoHaV, (star in Hebrew), a world-wide umbrella organization of volunteers active in combating anti-Israel media and political bias...
About this Site
As the number of requests I receive for copies of my earlier articles and letters has become unmanageable, I decided to experiment with archiving some of them on the web for easy access.
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Justiified criticism of academics is not Mccarthyism
McCarthy vs Voltaire
Academic freedom and sloppy research
Academic freedom and tenure
Scary education prospects in Britain
Letter to academic boycott advocate, TanyaReinhart
Academic Freedom
An open letter to professor Rachel Giora April 22, 2010
Academic freedom and sloppy research about the Israel Lobby
First published in
Intellectual Conservative
Click here for more on Mearsheimer and Walt
Posted By Maurice Ostroff On September 25, 2007
The much discussed articles and latest book by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt, attacking the Israel Lobby,...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND TENURE
Two misunderstood concepts
Their use and abuse
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By Maurice Ostroff (May 12, 2010)
Because academic freedom and free speech are treasured commodities in a free society, both carry a duty to exercise responsibility...
ACADEMIC FREEDOM VS VOLTAIRE
Should a broadened and often misunderstoon interpretation of "academic freedom", reinforced by tenure, protect academics who promote boycotts and sanctions against their own universities?
And is it legitimate to inform the public and donors to the...
ALLISTER SPARKS - RABBI GOLDSTEIN AND JUDGE GOLDSTONE
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Amendments to strengthen the Iran Nuclear deal
that should be uncontroversial
Note - Click here to view the text of the JCPOA with all annexes.
A Significant development has received scant attention in mainstream media. One Democratic senator opposes the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) while another supports it and...
American thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/maurice_ostroff
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/factoids_and_the_green_line.html
Amnesty International - please help relieve the suffering of families of kidnapped soldiers
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An open letter to Amnesty International’s
Urgent Action Network
From Maurice Ostroff.
July 19. 2006
To the Urgent Actions Network
Amnesty International, International Secretariat, LONDON
FAX +...
An alternative view of the Hamas victory
By Maurice Ostroff
What should have been an unsurprising Hamas election victory has reverberated as a shock throughout the world, with politicians and editors universally expressing pessimism.
Moscow's, RIA Novosti, commented "News of the Thursday...
An appeal to Judge Goldstone to review the report of the mission to Gaza
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From Judge Goldstone to Maurice Ostroff
From:
An Arab view of the refugee tragedy
The writer, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed is the general manager of Al -Arabiya television. Mr. Al Rashed is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in the daily newspapers...
An Arab view of the refugee tragedy
The writer, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed is the general manager of Al -Arabiya television. Mr. Al Rashed is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al- Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine, Al Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in the daily newspapers...
An Israeli Artilleryman's experiences
Steve Linde, THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 8, 2006
Can you imagine how terrible the artillery troops who fired the shells at Beit Hanun yesterday must be feeling now?
After serving in IDF Artillery, I can only say that this is every gunner's nightmare scenario:...
An open letter to
Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg (part 2)
May 29, 2015
Dear Jeffrey Goldberg,
In my letter of May 27 I referred to my belief that much of the President Obama's views about Israel result from misinformed reports about Israel and in particular misquoted reports about what Netanyahu has said.
Consequences...
AN OPEN LETTER TO AP REPORTERS
An open letter from Maurice Ostroff
To AP reporters, Alexander G. Higgins, Frank Jordans and Steve Weizman
.
May 21, 2009
Dear Messrs. Higgins, Jordans and Weizman
Your May 20 article, distributed worldwide
"Prosecutor: Gaza probe goes on without...
An open letter to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
An open letter to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Copies to members of The Elders
From Maurice Ostroff
September 8, 2009
Sir,
I am deeply saddened by your recent outright condemnation of Israel. As an admirer of yours, I recall how during...
An open letter to B'Tselem
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An open letter to BBC’s Tim Sebastian
November 13, 2015
Dear Mr. Sebastian,
I enjoy your programs on Hardtalk and the Doha debates and I also enjoyed your recent bout with Naftali Bennet although I found it to be disappointing. You have been headlined by the BBC as “The man wit...
An open letter to Benjamin Pogrund re allegations Israel supplied nuclear weapons to apartheid SA
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An open letter to Cosatu President, Willie Madisha
Click here for more on boycotts and divestment
From Maurice Ostroff
An open letter to Dar Al-Hayat-LBC political editor, Zaki Chehab
From Maurice Ostroff
August 9, 2006
As an Israeli, I am writing to you in your capacity as political editor of Al Hayat-LBC TV and consequently as a man of great influence in the present tragic conflagration overwhelming both our countries....
An open letter to Gideon Levy of Haaretz and Larry Derfner of the Jerusalem Post
An open letter to Gideon Levy and Larry Derfner
From Maurice Ostroff
October 17, 2009
Gideon Levy, when you were was asked by Robert Hirschfield in an interview on September 9 whether you agree that your articles are proof that Israel, for...
An open letter to Human Rights Watch's Fred Abrahams
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From Maurice Ostroff August 6, 2006
Dear Mr.Abrahams,
While you deserve kudos for your unceasing work documenting human rights violations around the world, your appearance...
AN OPEN LETTER TO JUDGE ALBIE SACHS
re the Goldstone barmitzvah debacle
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An open letter to Judge Goldstone re Cast Lead statistics
From Maurice Ostroff
Click here for Judge Goldstone's response
Click here for more on the Goldstone Report
January 16, 2011
Dear Judge Goldstone,
It has been a considerable time since I last wrote an open letter to you, but I believe...
AN OPEN LETTER TO JUSTICE CHASKALSON
From Maurice Ostroff
in response to the letter in the right hand column below
February 4, 2009
Dear Justice Chaskalson,
“What’s happening to the right to a fair hearing”
I refer to the document “Chaskalson and others speak out on inhu...
An open letter to Larry Derfner
Click here for follow-up correspondence
An open letter to Mary Robinson
former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
and leader of the recent Elders Delegation to the Middle East
From Maurice Ostroff
(in cooperation with Australian author on international law, Ian Lacey - see http://www.maurice-ostroff.org/?page_id=134...
AN OPEN LETTER TO MEMBERS OF THE GOLDSTONE MISSION WHO DISGREE WITH HIS RE-EVALUATION
A follow-on from Judge Goldstone's oped in the Washington Post and the response in The Guardian by his fellow members of the Mission.
Click here for more on the Goldstone Report
An open letter from Maurice Ostroff
To members of the UN Fact-finding...
An open letter to NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
Click here for Roger Cohen's response and a follow-up
AN OPEN LETTER TO NY TIMES COLUMNIST, TOM FRIEDMAN
Click here for comments on the cioncepts of nationhood and statehood
An open letter to Professor Gideon Shimoni
From Maurice Ostroff
In response to the article in the right hand column
An open letter to Professor Rachel Giora of Tel Aviv University
An open letter to professor Rachel Giora
From Maurice Ostroff
April 22, 2010
Dear Professor Giora
Re. Open letter by "BOYCOTT!" to CRH plc management
I refer to the open letter to which you subscribed, addressed by BOYCOTT! (Supporting...
An open letter to S. African Minister of Trade and Industry re labelling of West Bank products
An open letter to South African Trade and Industry Minister, Dr Rob Davies
June 30, 2012
Dear Minister Davies
I am writing to support your intention to enhance South Africa's exemplary consumer Protection Act, by adding a requirement for truth...
An open letter to South African Minister Ronnie Kasrils
Some facts about Israel and apartheid
May 21, 2006
Dear Minister Ronnie Kasrils
Your article “Israel should face sanctions” (The Guardian, May 19, 2006)
I heartily agree with your statement, “There is no excuse for n...
An open letter to South African Minister Ronnie Kasrils
Some facts about Israel and apartheid
May 21, 2006
Dear Minister Ronnie Kasrils
Your article “Israel should face sanctions” (The Guardian, May 19, 2006)
I heartily agree with your statement, “There is no excuse for not knowing the truth...
An Open Letter to the Arab World by Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 15:27, Perry Ashley, Media Advisor to
Foreign Minister's Office, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote
"Today, 15th December, Asharq Alawsat, one of the largest pan-Arab daily newspapers printed an op-ed in Arabic by...
An open letter to the authors of the Chatham House Report on the Goldstone Report
The original Chatham House report may be viewed here http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files/15572_il271109summary.pdf
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An open letter to the authors of the Chatham House Report on the Goldstone Report
Ms...
An Open letter to the oped editor of the EU Observer
Click here for Alon Liel's article in the euobserver.com and the responese by Professor Steinberg that the editor accepted but changed his mind
An Open letter to the oped editor of the EU Observer
From Maurice Ostroff January...
An open letter to the president of CUPE
To the President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario
From Maurice Ostroff June 14, 2006
Dear Mr. Ryan,
Your article, “Protesting against Israeli apartheid” (To...
An open letter to the president of NATFHE
The AUT boycott of Israel - 2005
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Opposing the motion to boycott Israeli academics
Memorandum to the President of NATFHE
From Maurice Ostroff
May 25, 2006
Sir,
NATFHE annual national...
An open reply to Martin Chulov re bombing of Red Cross ambulances
An open reply to Martin Chulov From Maurice Ostroff September 1, 2006
Note. Mr. Chulov's article of August 31, is a response to a speech by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. Click here for an extract
Referring to your reports of August...
AN OPEN REPLY TO PROFESSORS BOESAK AND ESACK
from Maurice Ostroff, in response to their strong criticism of chief Rabbi Goldstein's letter to Archbishop Tutu and their allegation that Israel is an apartheid state
Click here for follow-up correspondence with Dorothy Naor
AN OPEN RESONSE TO JUDGE GOLDSTONE
Extracts from the near verbatim report (below right)
Questioner. On the same issue, because your answer is not quite clear. I was wondering whether the scope of the mission had been widened in terms of the scope of the resolution, because both you...
An open response to Atlantic columnist
Jeffrey Goldberg (part 1)
This letter is a response to Jeffrey Golberg's article in the Atlantic of May 21, 2915,
of which selected portions have been widely quoted and which may be viewed in full here
From Maurice Ostroff May 27, 2015
Dear Jeffrey Goldberg,
I gre...
An open response to Judge Goldstone re the UN Mission's report on Gaza - Part 1
Click here for more on the UN Fact-finding mission
Click here for Part 2 of the reply to the report
Read the complete report here http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/specialsession/9/docs/UNFFMGC_Report.pdf
From Maurice Ostroff...
An open response to Judge Goldstone re the UN Mission's report on Gaza - Part 2
Click here for part 1
Click here for more on the Gaza fact-finding mission
Part 2 of an open response to Judge Goldstone and Mission Members
re the Report of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
from Maurice Ostroff
September...
An open response to Judge Goldstone's interview with Bill Moyers on PBS
October 23, 2009
An open response from Maurice Ostroff to Judge Goldstone's interview with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
Dear Judge Goldstone,
I refer to your October 23, interview with Bill Moyers and in particular...
AN UNSEEMLY RUSH TO JUDGMENT
First published in the Intellectual Conservative
by Maurice Ostroff | February 11, 2009
Critics of Israel seem to focus only on damaging media reports, while ignoring the wealth of credible evidence of the great lengths to which the Israeli...
APARTHEID, ISRAEL & SOUTH AFRICA
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South African Black Member of Parliament on Israel and apartheid
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Little known facts about how Israel covertly trained potential Black leaders in defiance of the South African...
ARAB COMMENTATORS
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Israel as seen by a Jordanian journalist
Some surprising views
Arab views of Hamas It seems that at every step that Hamas takes only sinks it further in the Palestinian mire, and in the process has...
Arab intellectuals on the Palestinian refugee question
Kuwaiti daily
On the Impossible Idea of the Right of Return.
March 5, 2007
Saudi columnist Yousef Nasser Al-Sweidan wrote in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, March 5, 2007, under the title "On the Impossible...
Arab intellectuals on the Palestinian refugee question
Kuwaiti daily
On the Impossible Idea of the Right of Return.
March 5, 2007
Saudi columnist Yousef Nasser Al-Sweidan wrote in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, March 5, 2007, under the title "On the Impossible [Idea] of the Right of Return."
. . . Clearly,...
Arab students speak about apartheid in Israel
An open letter from a student at LSE
Open letter from a student at LSE, written in 2005 against the AUT boycott
Dear Friend,
My name is Amir Kneifiss and I am an Israeli Druze currently studying towards an MSc. in Governance at...
Arafat's strategy long before 1967
A remider that current Palestinian violence is just a continuation of Arafat's strategy since long before 1967.
The American Spectatot quotes Ostroff
Symbolic Savage
By Ilana Mercer
Published 11/15/2004 12:06:11 AM
Absolute and entire ugliness...
Archbishop Tutu appeals to Jewish journalist who turned her back on her religion
The letter below in the LH column is a response to an article by journalist Moira Levy as summarized in the right hand column below.
Her article drew an appeal by Archbishop Desmond Tutu not to blame her faith as described below her letter
Click...
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The Goldstone Mission to Gaza 2009
HE NATION HOOD STORM IN A TEACUP (GINGRICH ON PALESTINIAN NATIONHOOD)
THE RUSSELL TRIBUNAL
MEARSHEINMER AND W...
ARTHUR GOLDREICH - A TRIBUTE
Arthur Goldreich (L.) with the writer at a restuarant in Herzliya Pituach
Appreciation: Arthur Goldreich
By MAURICE OSTROFF
05/29/2011 23:38
Anti-apartheid icon, Machal volunteer, and abstract painter.
Prof. Arthur Goldreich,...
ARTICLE BY ALON LIEL AND PROF. STEINBERG'S REJECTED RESPONSE
Click here for an open letter by Maurice Ostroff to the oped editor of the euobserver.com and the editor's reply.
Articles by Eugene W. Rostow
The Late Eugene W. Rostow was US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs between 1966 and 1969. He played a leading role in producing the famous Resolution 242.
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AVRAHAM BURG
French citizen Avraham Burg castigates Israel
B'TSELEM
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B’Tselem’s response
An open letter to B’Tselem
B'TSELEM'S FLAWED STATISTICS
B'TSELEM'S FLAWED STATISTICS CONTINUED
B'TSELEM'S FLAWED CASUALTY FIGURES
This correspondence arose from a letter by B'Tselem objecting to criticism of their statistics expressed by Maurice Ostroff during an interview with the Yediot Aharonot Hebrew newspaper
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B'TSELEM'S FLAWED STATISTICS CONTINUED
This correspondence arose from a letter by B'Tselem objecting to criticism of their statistics expressed by Maurice Ostroff during an interview with the Yediot Aharonot Hebrew newspaper
Click here for the earlier correspondence
BDS and counterproductive boycotts
August 22, 2012
Israeli technology helps grow lettuce in Senegal
The Oxford English dictionary defines counterproductive behavior as having the opposite of the desired effect. Political activists would surely avoid the counterproductive behavior...
Behavior of Israeli Soldiers
Setting the record straight about 1948 and interview with Smoky Simon
The highest ranking US military officer’s opinion on Israel’s 2014 Gaza war
Letter from a soldier on Gaza border re African refugees
Revelations by soldiers who fou...
BOTH PAKISTAN AND GAZA CALL FOR AID
Getting our priorities straight
By Maurice Ostroff
August 20, 2010
Where should SINCERE humanitarians direct their aid efforts?
To Pakistan where 20 million desperate human beings have been rendered homeless in a tragedy that UN Secretary...
BOYCOTTS, DIVESTMENT & SANCTIONS (BDS)
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Boycotts and counterproductive politics
BDS opposes a peaceful solution (Click on the video below)
Response to the Methodist Church of Great Britain
The apartheid epithet and ...
Briitish foreign policy and Muslim extremism
With acknowledgement to snopes.com for the pictures of a march through London.
Click here for more pictures of hatred
Significantly, the anger shown here, has nothing to do with British foreign policy nor Israel. It was expressed world wide...
British Jews refuse to celebrate Israel's 60th anniversary
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You Tube - BBC interview about Deir Yassin
Re incitement
BRITISH MILITARY EXPERT'S ASSESSMENT OF THE ISRAEL ARMY IN 2009 & HIS JUNE 2011 UPDATE
This audio file is an excerpt from a BBC interview on January 9, 2009, with Colonel Richard Kemp CBE, a former Commander of British forces in Afghanistan, and a senior adviser on army issues to the British government.
The assessment by an...
CAN GEORGE MITCHELL REPLICATE HIS SUCCESS IN N. IRELAND?
By Maurice Ostroff
First published in The Intellectual Conservative
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2009/01/28/can-george-mitchell-replicate-his-success-in-northern-ireland/#comments
See also incitement
It is evident...
Canadian university president slammed for accepting JNF award
Faculty members at University of Western Ontario, attack the university president for accepting an award from the JNF. They claim that his "Speech obscures Palestinian suffering"
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Response by Professor Farah...
Cartoons (Dry Bones)
Reproduced with the kind permission of Yaacov Kirschen
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Chris McGreal's attack on Israel in the Guardian
What the Guardian refused to publish.
A reply to Chis McGreal's lengthy, two-part, "explosive" report on Israel
The Editor
The Guardian February 12, 2006
I refer to Chris McGreal’s “...
Clinton's parameters
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http://clinton6.nara.gov/2001/01/2001-01-07-remarks-by-the-president-at-israel-policy-dinner.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 7, 2001
...
CNN's DOCUMENTARY - GOD'S WARRIORS
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CNN's "God's Warriors" disappoints (The Intellectual Conservative)
An open letter to Christiane Amanpour
Honest Reporting on God's Warriors
An open letter to Jerusalm Post columnist...
Complete text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - the nuclear agreement
For convenience of the reader each annex is shown separately rather than as part of one comprehensive document
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J O I N T S T A...
Connecting the dots
Events that led to 9/11
Behind each terror attack is an elaborate infrastructure that must be tackled, starting with the incitement propagated under the very noses of host cities in Britain, Europe and the U.S., as well as in madrassas in...
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of the Crime of Genocide
Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948
Entry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII
The Contracting Parties ,
Having considered...
Correcting the new historians about 1948
Two of the founders of the Israel Air Force, Smoky Simon, deputy Chief of Air Operations on the left and the late Sid Cohen who commanded 101 Squadron on the right. Maurice Ostroff, commander of radar station Gefen in the center.
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Correspondence with Arun Gandhi (Mahatma's grandson)
An Open Letter to Mr. Arun Gandhi
from Maurice Ostroff
August 28, 2004
Dear Mr. Gandhi,
In Hebrew we have an expression “kol hakavod” which literally means all honor to you. It is used when one wishes to encourage someone for doing something adm...
Covenant of the League of Nations
Enter subhead content here
THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,
In order to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security
by the...
DEALING WITH IRAN
International experts demand that Ahmadinejad be indicted for violating the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide
View and hear them addressing the
International symposium:
“Bring Ahmadinejad to Justice For Incitement to G...
DEALING WITH POST-DISENGAGEMENT PRESSURES
See also occupation
and
1967 and its consequences
A call for intellectual honesty
Maurice Ostroff June 5, 2005
In the aftermath of the disengagement from Gaza, intense pressure from all quarters is building...
Declaration of Human Rights
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(other language versions)
Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948
On December 10,...
DEIR YASSIN - startling evidence
Hazem Nusseibeh, editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service's in 1948, tells the BBC how a press report was compiled, falsely claiming that atrocities had occurred at Deir Yassin.
Click here for a response to an article in the Independent...
Derfner's reply and a follow-up
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Disputed territories around the world
Click here for "The occupation in perspective"
Disputed territories around the world
Maurice Ostroff 10, 2011
Even in this post World War II era there are many situations, similar to those in Israel, where territories...
Disputed territories around the world
Maurice Ostroff 10, 2011
Even in this post World War II era there are many situations, similar to those in Israel, where territories are subject to dispute and the rights of a foreign presence are opposed. In practically all these...
DO THE PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT OF RETURN?
First published in THE INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATIVE
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DOCUMENTS & ARTICLES
Convention on the prevention and punishment for the crime of genocide
Fourth Geneva Convention The Rome Statute The UN Charter
President Clinton's parameters
Articles by the late Eugene W. Rostow
Resolution 242
Resolution 338
Resolution...
Dorothy Naor replies re Chief Rabbi Goldstein and Professors Boesak and Esack
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Click here for later correspondence
Dorothy Naor responds
Dorothy Naor's take on the Haifa fire disaster fund
"if you are inclined to donate, make it conditional to Israel restoring land that it stole from Palestinians in both Israel and the OPT and also planting olive groves that it uprooted in the OPT....
DRAFT Obama says Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel
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‘&rel=0‘
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Dubai - Security failure
The above CCTV shot of "Gail" in the corridor, proves that the cameras covered the doors to the hotel rooms, leading to the critical question why they didn't photograph the culprits entering and leaving the victim's room.
Click h...
DURBAN II & THE GENEVA SUMMIT
Gaining a better perspective on Durban II
Maurice Ostroff
Friday April, 17, 2009
For a better perspective and broader understanding of the forthcoming Durban II conference, be sure to log in to the web site of the Geneva Summit for Human Rights,...
Egypt and the Jews
EDITORIAL: Arab-Israeli dispute percolates
Published: November 07, 2007
For some 60 odd years the Arab-Israeli conflict has been percolating, periodically exploding into open conflict then returning to a simmering position on the back-burner...
ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION IN LEBANON IS NOT CALLED APARTHEID. WHY?
In Lebanon, there are about 400,000 Palestinian refugees living in camps in poverty and crowded conditions, with fences separating them from the rest of Lebanese society.According to a December 2008 BBC report Palestinians are barred from 73 professions...
Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits - part 2
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) affects the entire free world and we can’t afford to be side tracked by prejudice or political or commercial interests or blaming Israel for the widespread objections to obvious flaws.
The random observations, q...
Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits – Part 1
It would be irresponsible and indeed reckless to ignore the measured, carefully considered observations of this prestigious body on the merits of the JCPOA .
While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached with Iran may well be a beneficial...
Evaluation of, and submissions to
The UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza war
TIP
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EVALUATION OF THE REPORT AFTER PUBLICATION ON JUNE 22, 2015
Comments by a military expert who knows what he is talking about
Why did the report ...
Extend the boycotts
Britain, be consistent and extend the boycotts
Maurice Ostroff
Charles Boycott would feel at home in the current "Boycott Israel" season.
British academics, journalists and trade unionists demanding boycotts of Israeli universities and products,...
Eyeless in Gaza
There are none so blind as those who will not see
June 14, 2006
By Maurice Ostroff
The time has come to strip off the blindfold and see things as they are. No matter who was responsible, the deaths of the seven Palestinian civilians...
FACTOIDS AND THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT OF RETURN
Maurice Ostroff
In his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer coined the word "factoid" by adding the suffix "oid" to the word "fact". Tagged on to the end of a word, "oid" conveys the idea of resemblance to that word, for example asteroid...
Facts about Israel and the old apartheid South Africa
(See also " Is Israel an apartheid state? and Jews against apartheid ")
By Maurice Ostroff
Trade and Armaments
If a truly objective and unbiased investigation were to be conducted of countries, which supported and cooperated with the apartheid...
Facts do support Israels' claims of self-defense
A reply to an article in the Kansas City Star
FACTS DON"T MATTER WHEN BLAMING THE JEWS
Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6876280
Looking for a scapegoat, world again turns to Jews
By Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Article Last Updated: 09/12/2007 11:46:04 PM MDT
Who recently...
FATAH-HAMAS RECONCILIATION AND GILAD SHALIT
Letter from Maurice Ostroff to the editor of the Christian Science Monitor
FLOTILLA ACTIVIST ADMITS IT'S NOT A HUMAMNATARIAN OPERATION
First published in the Intellectual Conservative
Setting the record straight about the flotilla
FLOTILLA ACTIVIST ADMITS IT'S NOT A HUMANITARIAN EFFORT. IT'S A POLITICAL PROVOCATION
By Maurice Ostroff
Prominent flotilla activist Joe Catron...
Follow-up to open letter to NY Times columnist Roger Cohen
Click here for the open letter to which Roger Cohen responds below
Former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs criticizes the media
During his speech to the National Newspaper Publishers' Conference on August 28, 2006, The Hon. Alexander Downer, MP, former, Australia said he was disappointed with some of the recent reporting out of the Middle East, which he believed believe has brought...
Former Israel Ambassador to South Africa, President Zuma and Gilad Shalit
Published in the SA Jewish Report
FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION
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FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Preamble
The undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Governments represented...
FP's writers' guidelines and Professor Walt's article on the Israel Lobby
From Maurice Ostroff
To the editor
Foreign Policy January 28, 2012
Sir
With great respect I suggest that Professor Walt's January 20 article, "The Israel lobby's role in American politics" departs substantially from the following excerpt from...
Further correspondence with Judge Goldstone
"it is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance, that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done"?
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Click here for the full text of HRC resolution...
Gazans receive medical treatment in Israel
Israel-OPT: Gazan hearts saved in Israel as conflict rages on
Source United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated Regional Information Networks
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-7B2R9Z?OpenDocument...
General Dempsey, the highest ranking US military officer's opinion on Israel's 2014 Gaza war
.
Click here for submission by Colonel Kemp
Israel has been criticized for civilian deaths during the conflict, including by the White House. According to a Reuters report of November 6, 2014 Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs ...
Geneva Convention re prisoners of war
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Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of
International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, held...
Gilo, settlements and the Green Line in perspective
Click here for a response to the South African govrnment's condemmnation of building houses in Gilo
November 22, 2009
The map shows the location of Gilo in the south west of Jerusalem not far from the Knesset and very close to the 1949 armistice...
Harvesting human organs
SELECTIVE OUTRAGE
A subject for an objective academic study
China's Grisly Practices
With the launching last month of David Matas and David Kilgour 's book "Bloody Harvest" every fair minded person must wonder why there has been no public outrage...
Has Finkelstein justiifid an economic boycott of Israel?
The AUT boycott of Israel - 2005
By Maurice Ostroff
Originally written to the Norwegian newspaper, Aftenoposten , in response to an article by Norman Finkelstein that appeared in the January 14, 2005 issue
It is disappointing that Norway's...
How debate audiences make up their minds - a study
The BBC Doha Debate
"This House believes the Palestinians should give up their full right of return,"
broadcast on April 14, 2007, provided a fascinating lesson in how public rhetoric and emotion often override logic.
First published in “intellectual C...
How did the Lebanon conflagration start?
By Maurice Ostroff
Click here for more about Lebanon and Hezbollah
Background to the War in Lebanon 2006
The following authentic information extracted from an official UNIFIL document[i] indicates clearly that the recent kidnapping of two IDF...
How the media misreported from Gaza
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” (Mark Twain)
Sadly, Mark Twain’s quip could have been written about media reporting on the recent conflict in Gaza.
While UN Secretary General...
HUMAN RIGHTS
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ABOUT KENNETH ROTH"S VIEWS ON ISRAEL AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The Brouhhaha surrounding allegations by HumanRights Watch Executive Director, Kenneth Roth
Judge Richard Goldstone's attack on...
Human Rights Watch and the Kenneth Roth Brouhaha
Click here for responses by Professor Steinberg and Judge Goldstone
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Incitement - Teaching an infant to hate
With acknowledgement to MEMRI http://memritv.org
5/7/2002 Clip No. 924
3½-Year-old Basmallah: "Jews Are Apes and Pigs"
How can we expect this indoctrinated child to react with Jews when she grows up?
Below are excerpts from an interview ...
INCITEMENT - The root cause of violence
Pastor Niemoller and the spread of Extreme Islamic terror
Incitement- teaching a 3 year old child to hate
The incitement is still there - 2004
Washington Post re getting tough on Israel
The main obstacle to a peaceful solution of...
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Iranian leaders must be punished in terms of UN resolution 260 (III) A
The occupation, settlements and the Arab-Israel conflict
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT by Ian Lacey, B.A., LL.B
Extracts from “Israel and Palestine – ...
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT
Extracts from "Israel and Palestine - Assault on the Law of Nations"
by Professor Julius Stone
Editor: Ian Lacey, AM, BA, LLB.
The late Professor Julius Stone was recognised as one of the twentieth century's leading authorities on the Law...
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE SETTLEMENTS
By Maurice Ostroff September 2011
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This article is intended neither as an argument for, nor against, Israel retaining some or all of the West bank settlements . Rather it urges that any discussion of the...
Iranian leaders must be punished in terms of UN resolution 260 (III) A
Article 3(c) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, that was established by the above resolution, states unambiguously that punishable acts include
“Direct and public incitement to commit genocide”
And it is ...
Is British foreign policy fueling Muslim extremism?
Article submitted to Times on line in response to an article by Inayat Bunglawala, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2309097,00.html )
Is British foreign policy fueling Muslim extremism?...
Is Israel an apartheid state?
By Maurice Ostroff
February 2007
(Click here for "Jews against apartheid" and "The Israel - South Africa Connection )
Israel, apartheid and South Africa
Is it worth it,Sheik Nasrallah?
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Are you counting the cost in human misery?
Hundreds of people have been killed and more are dying hourly. I use the word "people" deliberately, not Israelis nor Lebanese, because human misery is human...
ISLAMIC EXTREMISM
Islamophobia or a serious threat?
Letter to the Timesonline
Is Briitish foreign policy fueling Muslim extremism?
Muslims threaten violence
Incitement- the root cause of violence
ISLAMOPHOBIA OR SERIOUS THREAT?
March 6, 2010
To the Editor
The Independent
Sir,
While Chris Green's article "Islamophobia on tour: Wilders comes to Britain" (March 6) told us about Geert Wilder's resemblance to Mozart it offered no explanation for labeling his message as...
Israel and the Palestinians
Israel and the Palestinians :
International Herald Tribune
Friday, December 27, 2002
Mauric Ostroff
Israel congratulates South African Ambassador on Freedom Day
Address by Avi Granot, Head of the Africa Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
during Freedom Day celebrations at the SA Ambassador’s residence in May 2015
.
Your Excellency Ambassador Sisa Ngombane and Mrs. Ngombane,
Distinguished m...
Israel didn't fire into UNRWA school
Read more on media distortions
Account of Israeli attack doesn't hold up to scrutiny
PATRICK MARTIN
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
January 29, 2009 at 4:00 AM EST
JABALYA, GAZA STRIP — Most people remember the headlines: Massacre O...
ISRAEL IN CONTEXT
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has...
Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement 1949
Jordanian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement, April 3, 1949
Preamble
The Parties to the present Agreement,
Responding to the Security Council resolution of 16 November 1948,( calling upon them, as a further provisional measure under Article 40...
Israeli cooperation with Black leaders during the apartheid era
Coming out from the cold
By David Kaplan
This article, written in 1997, tells the fascinating story of covert Israeli cooperation with anti-apartheid Black leaders in South Africa during the darkest apartheid period.
If you chance to stroll along...
It all started when the Israelis hit back
THE JERUSALEM POST
Letters to the editor,
June 13, 2006
From Maurice Ostroff
Sir, - Our countermeasures against rockets fired from Gaza would be better understood internationally if the Foreign Ministry were to flood the UN...
Jerusalem Post
See http://www.jpost.com/Search?search=maurice%20ostroff
And http://www.jpost.com/Blogger/Maurice-Ostroff
Jimmy Carter on Palestine Peace and Apartheid
An open letter to former President Jimmy Carter
From Maurice Ostroff
“…how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? “ Luke 6:42 ...
John Mearsheimer - The lobby falters (March 2009)
London Review of Books
Vol. 31 No. 6 · 26 March 2009
page 22 | 1487 words
The Lobby Falters
John Mearsheimer
Many people in Washington were surprised when the Obama administration tapped Charles Freeman to chair the National Intelligence ...
Judge Goldstone and Gilad Shalit
Click here for More articles on the Goldstone UN Fact-finding mission
Judge Goldstone at Stanford University panel on January 20, 2011
An open response to Judge Richard Goldstone's views on international law in relation to civilians in war zones, with particular reference to the UN Report on Israel's Cast lead operation in 2008-9
Click here for more on the Goldstone Report
Please...
Judge Goldstone defended by his colleagues and a response
Read the public defence in the left hand column below
and a response in the right hand column
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Judge Goldstone encountered no allegations of organ stealing
By Maurice Ostroff
Click here for more on the Goldstone Report
Click here for more on organ stealing
If there had been any substance at all to the ghoulish allegations in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Israeli soldiers stole organs...
Judge Goldstone's defence of Human Rights Watch
Click here for Kenneth Roth's original article which caused the furor
Judge Goldstone's response to part 1
Click here for part 1
Click here for more on the Goldstone Mission
Judgment on Goldstone by David Kaplan in the Jerusalem Post
Click here for more on the Goldstone Mission to Gaza
JUDGEMENT OF GOLDSTONE
By David E. Kaplan
An abridged version of this article appeared in the Metro supplement of the Jerusalem Post on October 16, 2009 under the headline OUTCAST
Over...
LA Times and Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch
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Honest Criticism of Israel is welcomed
An open letter to Rosa Brooks
Larry Derfner continued (October 2007)
October 14, 2007
Hi Larry,
I'm disappointed. In an earlier email you wrote that you enjoyed our exchanges of views, but now you refuse to answer some of my points. Am I unjustified in assuming that the reason is that it is inconvenient to actually...
LEBANON & HEZBOLLAH
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Apartheid in Lebanon by legislation
Hezbollah fires from behind civilians - evidence
The Lebanon conflagration. How it began
Was it worth it, Sheik Nasrallah?
The Doha debate. Did Hezbollah...
LETTER ABOUT MAURICE OSTROFF IN JERUSALEM POST
Letter in the Jerusalem Post April 5, 2011
Sir, A large part of the credit for Judge Goldstone's retraction must go to Maurice Ostroff, an ex-South African who fought as a volunteer in the War of Independence and who now resides in Herzliya.
Ostroff...
Letter from a soldier on Gaza border re African refugees
Aron Adler writing from the Israel/Gaza/Egyptian border.
Click here for more on the behavior of Israeli soldiers
My name is Aron Adler. I am 25 years old, was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Efrat Israel. Though very busy, I don't view...
Letter to International Herald Tribune re misleading photo caption and headline
A response to the article in the right hand column below
Letter to NY Times in response to "scientists praise nuclear deal"
August 10, 2015
To the Letters Editor,
NY Times
Re Scientists praise nuclear deal (Aug. 8)
Informed debate about the merits of the nuclear agreement would be greatly enhanced if the eminent scientists would express their opinions on the following...
Machal-Nachal Reunion, October 10, 2006
Machal-Nachal Reunion October 10, 2006
For more on the 1948 War of Independence click here
Emotional greetings and warm embraces were the order of the day on October 10, 2006 as former members of 1948 Machal and 1956 Machal-Nachal renewed acquaintanceships...
Mearsheimer & Walt - unanswered questions - June 2008
June 12, 2008
Professors Walt and Mearsheimer, famous for their book on The Israel Lobby, are presently in Israel at the invitation of Gush Shalom, They are delivering a lecture at a Gush Shalom forum tonight, Thursday, at 8 p.m. at Beit Sokolow in Tel...
Mearsheimer and Walt
articles and letters
The Israel Lobby in London Review of Books March 2006
Reply to crtics by Mearsheimer and Walt in in London Review of books - May 2006
The Israel Lobby Brouhaha - May 2006 - An open letter to Professors Mearsheimer and...
Mearsheimer and Walt accuse presidential candidates of pandering
Pander. To cater to the lower tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses. (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Mearsheimer and Walt's reply to critics in the London Review of Books (May 5, 2006)
The storm over "the Israel lobby"
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n09/letters
By John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Harvard University.
5 May 2006
We wrote 'The Israel Lobby' in order to begin a discussion of a subject...
MEDIA
DISTORTIONS
THE POWER OF POLITICAL MISINFORMATION
An open letter to BBC's Tim Sebastian
Open letter to Jeffrey Goldberg (Part 1)
Open letter to Jeffrey Goldberg (Part 2)
About Deir Yassin - startling admission to the BBC by the man who issued the ...
Media fraud - Bloggers expose evident deliberate media misinformation
Scandalous photo frauds revealed by bloggers
By Maurice Ostroff
Click here for video clips of misleading journalism
The word "blog" has become a familiar part of our vocabulary. It is an abbreviated form of weblog, an evolving type of website...
Memo to UK Parliamentary Select Committee 2004
Memorandum submitted by Maurice Ostroff
SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION
This memorandum presupposes that any serious study of the effectiveness of Development Assistance requires an analytical approach, carefully distinguishing between the facts and...
Memo to UK Parliamentary Select Committee 2006
Memorandum submitted by Maurice Ostroff
"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." (Winston Churchill)
In planning for the future, the key is to avoid repeating past mistakes. As the declared main purpose of the inquiry...
Memo to UN Fact-finding mission re Gilad Shalit and Incitement
Is the UN fact-finding mission impartial? (Click here)
Memorandum to the UN fact-finding mission
into the recent conflict in Gaza
From: Maurice Ostroff June 21, 2009
A missed opportunity to...
Memorable quotes
Politicians like diapers should be changed often
and for the same reason 🙂
Four reasons to vote for nobody
Nobody can fix the economy.
Nobody can be trusted with their finger on the button.
Nobody's perfect.
Vote for him/her. (Unknown)
...
Memoranda to UK Parliament
Published reports submitted by Maurice Ostroff to UK Parliamentary Select Committees
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2004 memorandum
2006 memorandum
Memorandum number three to the Goldstone Mission
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Fom Maurice Ostroff
To the UN Fact-finding mission into Israel's
Cast-lead operation in Gaza
August 26, 2009
I feel compelled to write to you again, firstly...
Memorandum to the Human Rights Council
re the Goldstone Report
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Click here for a summary of this document
Memorandum
To the President, Ambassador Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi
and Members of The Human Rights Council
Re:...
MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
RECENT ARTICLES
President Obama calls for an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital and his early comments on Iran
OLDER ARTICLES
TWO SHRINES
PETER BEINART ARCHIVE B'TSELEM RESPONSE TO A LETTER BY SA JEWS TO T...
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE - IN DUBAI
By Maurice Ostroff
February 24, 2010
Security failure in Dubai
Click here for open letter to British Foreign Minister David Miliband
about forged passports
Click here for open letter to Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith about forged...
Niemöller and the spreading of terror
In all the years Israel has been facing Iranian sponsored Hamas and Hezbolla terror, few recognized that this tiny country has been, and is, in the front line against spreading extremist Islamic violence.
The increasing persecution and slaughter of ...
Obama calls for an undivided Jerusalem as Israel's capital
As president of the USA, Mr. Obama confirmed the views he had expressed about Jerusalem when he was still a senator addressing Aipac in 2008
In 2012, on the insistence of President Obama, the sentence "Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” w...
Obama urges Israel to follow Rabin's footsteps
EXTRACTS FROM YITZCHAK RABIN'S LAST SPEECH October 5, 1995
See the complete text in the right hand column below
We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was...
Open letter to academic boycott of Israel advocate, Tanya Reinhart
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May 11, 2005
An Open letter to Professor Tanya Reinhart
From Maurice Ostroff
Dear Professor Tanya Reinhart,
I was saddened but not surprised to...
Open letter to Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith
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STRANGE BUT TRUE!
The article below, published by Ma'an, the Palestine News Agency on the day Mabhou died, reported that he died of cancer.
The official announcement of his death did not take place...
Open letter to Gideon Levy
From Maurice Ostroff
November 11, 2006
Dear Gideon Levy,
In the spirit of the constructive constructive correspondence we have exchanged in the past, I now refer to your article "No one is guilty in Israel" (Haaretz Nov. 11). While you deserve...
Open letter to members of the Association of Democratic Lawyers (S. Africa)
Click here for more on boycotts and divestment
From Maurice Ostroff
I refer to your recent call for South Africa to end diplomatic relations with Israel because of what you termed Israel’s flagrant breaches of international humanitarian law (The C...
Open letter to Rt. Hon. David Miliband,
British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Click here for more on the Dubai affair
Open letter to South African Ambassador to Israel, Fumanekile Gqiba
in response to his interview with Haaretz
Open letter to South African Ambassador, H.E. Ismail Coovadia re Gilo
Click here for a reponse to the South African government re condemmnation of buiding houses in Gilo
Click here for Gilo, settlements and the Green Line in perspective
November 27, 2009
To His Excellency, Ambassador Ismail Coovadia,
Sir,
In...
PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
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"RIGHT OF RETURN" and RESOLUTION 194
Palestinian refugees,as seen by a woman whose father was assasinated by the Israel army What the leading Arab international daily newspaper has to say about...
Palestinian refugees, as seen by a woman whose father was assasinated by the Israel army
Nonie Darwish's father, who commanded Egyptian Army Intelligence in Gaza in the1950's, was assassinated by the Israeli army in 1956. Now, having studied the Arab Israel conflict intensely Nonie Darwish blames the assassination on the Middle Eastern Islamic...
PETER BEINART
Earlier correspondence published on Times of Israel web site
Open letter from Maurice Ostroff of April 9 2012 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-peter-beinart/
Beinart's response and Ostroff's reply April 15, 2012 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/beinart-responds-to-my-open-letter/...
Pictures of hate
With acknowledgement to http://www.zombietime.com
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PLO'S Ten Point plan
Adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestine National Council (June 8, 1974)
Cairo, 8 June 1974
The Palestine National Council,
On the basis of the Palestine National Charter and the Political Program drawn up at the eleventh session,...
PM NETANYAHU'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS MAY 24 2011
May 24, 2011
Speech by PM Netanyahu to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress
I am deeply moved by your warm welcome. And I am deeply honored that you have given me the opportunity to address Congress a second time.
Mr. Vice President,...
President Davenport's award and his aceptance speech
For more info. click on the relevant link below
Protest letter by faculty members
Responses by
Professor Heap
Professor Farah
Professor Farah's response
For more info click on the relevant link below
Dr Davenprrt's aeptance speech
Protest by faculty members
Open letter to the protesters
Professor Heap's response
[one_half_last"]Maurice Ostroff's current response
June 27, 2008
Dear...
Professor Mearsheimer responds to Goldberg's smear
The professors and the Israel
Lobby
By Maurice Ostroff
In view of the great deal of space FP recently devoted to articles by Professors Mearsheimer and Walt defending their controversial views on the Israel Lobby, I would appreciate adequate space...
Professors Mearsheimer and Walt. Follow-up letter of October 8, 2007
An open follow-up to correspondence
with Professors Mearsheimer and Walt
From Maurice Ostroff
October 8, 2007
Dear Professors Mearsheimer and Walt,
In response to my letter of May 6, 2006, you replied that you were preparing a lengthy "response...
Proof- Hezbollah fires from among civilians
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The pictures show clearly how Hezbolla operates from civilian areas and that it is impossible to distinguish between Hezbolla fighters and civilians.
This has been confirmed, for example, by...
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President Obama, Rabin's Legacy and the words we use
President Obama's video message to the November 8, 2009 Rabin Rally in Tel Aviv was truly inspiring. One cannot help but be moved by...
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Open letter to Jeffrey Goldberg (Part 1)
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Reply to Sunday Times re Palestine against the wall
by Maurice Ostroff
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Resolution 338
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 338
October 22, 1973
The Security Council
1. Calls upon all parties to the present fighting to cease all firing and terminate all military activity immediately,...
RESOLUTION S/9-1 OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
The resolution enabling the Fact-finding Mission into war crimes in Gaza
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Response by Faadiel ibn Suleiman re Palestine against the wall
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Response by Professsor Heap
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Dr. Davenport's acceptance speech
The protest letter and the open letter to the protesters
Responseby Professor Farah
Response by Professor Heap
Response memo to Methodist Church of Britain
Memorandum from Maurice Ostroff
To members of the Methodist Church of Britain
October 23, 2013
Consultation on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions BDS)
Congratulations on your decision to consult with the public on your support for BDS
I refer...
RESPONSE TO "LICENSE TO KILL"
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Response to a letter by British Jews urging PM Gordon Brown to endorse the Goldstone Report
See original advert in the Times and list of signatories below
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An open response to the December 1, letter in the London Times
urging PM Gordon Brown to endorse the Goldstone Report
December 9, 2009
From...
Response to a letter by SA Jews to the Minister of Trade and Industry
On July 13, the Cape Times published a letter under the title "SA Jews are divided on Israel" addressed to the South African Minister of Trade and Industry and supporting "proposed legislation that products made on the West Bank by Israeli companies must...
Response to Prof.Seaford's refusal to review Israeli's book
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An open letter to Professor Seaford from Maurice Ostroff
May 21, 2006
Dear Professor Richard Seaford,
Having viewed your impressive web site, I share your interest in uncovering the relationship...
Response to Red Cross attack on Australian Foreign Minister Downer
An open reply to Martin Chulov From Maurice Ostroff September 1, 2006 Note. Mr. Chulov's article of August 31, is a response to a speech by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer (See extract below)
An open letter to Mr. Balthasar Staehelin,
ICRC...
Response to Scottish Jews who condemmn Israel
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March 5, 2008
From Maurice Ostroff
To the Editor
The Herald
Israel must halt attacks on Gaza and begin talks
While respecting the humanitarian motivation of the writers, it is illogical and...
Response to The Guardian on Israel-South Africa nuclear cooperation
See response below to Guardian article in the right hand column
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Main Sources of information
"Chronology of SA's Nuclear Program" by Zondi Masiza published in The Nonproliferation...
Response to the South African government's statement on Gilo
that appears below the following memorandum
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Memorandum to South African Ambassador, His Excellency Ismail Coovadia...
ROME STATUTE
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Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998
[as corrected by the procès-verbaux of 10 November 1998, 12 July 1999, 30 November 1999, 8 May 2000, 17 January 2001 ...
Ronnie Kasrils on myths
Over the past few weeks the Cape Times has published a series of letters by South African Minister of Intelligence, Ronnie Kasrils, castigating Israel as well as his several respondents.
Kasrils letter under reply is copied in the right hand column...
SA Jewish Report
The Cape Times contradicts its chairman's claim that newspapers in his group are unbiased.
Dr Iqbal Survé, chairman of the group that controls The Star, Cape Times, and other publications told the SA Jewish report that editors have been given clear d...
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SC Resolution 1515
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Scary education prospects
The AUT boycott of Israel - 2005
(First published Fri May 06, 2005 11:39 am on http://www.zionismontheweb.org/boards/viewtopic.php?p=22&sid=4a09aa06fe9437604f75615233e55001)
By Maurice Ostroff
The AUT's decision...
Scary education prospects in Britain
By Maurice Ostroff
The AUT 's decision to boycott Israeli universities gives cause for despair to any British mother hoping to provide her children with a meaningful education. It is not the decision to boycott that disturbs, but...
Scottish Jews demand Israel halt actions in Gaza
Continuation of correspondence on the web site of The Herald, Scotland - following a letter by Scottish Jews calling on Israel to quit actions in Gaza
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SCOTTISH PROFESSOR RESPONDS TO ISRAEL BOYCOTT CALL
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A Scottish professor responds to The Edinburgh Student's Association motion to boycott Israel.
Dr.Denis MacEoin, an expert in Persian, Arabic and Islamic History and a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly...
SCOTTISH PROFESSOR RESPONDS TO ISRAEL BOYCOTT CALL
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A Scottish professor responds to The Edinburgh Student's Association motion to boycott Israel.
Dr.Denis MacEoin, an expert in Persian, Arabic and Islamic History and a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly who earned...
Secretary of State Rogers, addressing an Adult Education Conference in Washington
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December 9, 1969
Following the third Arab-Israeli war in twenty years, there was an upsurge of hope that a lasting peace could be achieved. That hope has unfortunately not been realized. There...
Selected Writings of Stephen M. Schwebel, Judge of International Court of Justice
(not written in any of his former official capacities)
Justice In International Law
See http://middleeastfacts.org/content/schwebel/what-weight-to-conquest.htm
and http://tinyurl.com/ylpahbn
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...
Setting the record straight about 1948
Feb. 16, 2004 20:59 Updated Feb. 16, 2004 23:08
Remembering 1948 the way it was
By MAURICE OSTROFF
Congratulations to Prof. Benny Morris for having the courage to publicly reconsider some of his earlier conclusions and for acknowledging that...
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT THE GOLDSTONE OPED
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Setting the record straight on Goldstone
First published in the Jerusalem Post April 8, 2011
By MAURICE OSTROFF 04/08/2011 06:25
Contrary to the widely held speculation that his op-ed represents a...
Sheik Jarrah Evictions
Facts are unimportant when they contradict our preconceived opinions
A Google search for Israel evictions yields 195,000 results, almost all condemning Israel because two families were evicted from homes in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on...
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SOUTH AFRICA, HAMAS-PLO RECONCILIATION AND GILAD SHALIT
Email letter from Maurice Ostroff to the South African Ambassador to Israel, H.E. Mr. Ismail Coovadia
South African Jews Against Apartheid
(See also 'Is Israel an apartheid state?" and The Israel-SA Connection )
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THE FACTS ABOUT SOUTH AFRICAN JEWS IN THE APARTHEID ERA
Maurice Ostroff
Considering that Jews comprised...
Sowetan
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Status of Jerusalem
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Submision by Colonel Richard Kemp CBE to the 2014 UN Gaza war commission
SUBMISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON THE 2014 GAZA CONFLICT
21ST FEBRUARY 2015
BY COLONEL RICHARD KEMP CBE
GENEVA, 20 FEBRUARY 2015
( See also comment by General Dempsey )
I was a Colonel in the British Infantry. ...
Submission by a group of Australian Lawyers to the Goldstone Mission
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Covering email from Adv. Wertheim, to Judge Richard Goldstone, head of the UN Hunan Rights Committee, Fact-finding Mission nto events...
Summary of the memorandum to the HRC re the Goldstone Report
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Summary of a Memorandum of September 27, 2009
to The President of The UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador Martin Ihoeghian...
Supplementary memorandum to the Goldstone Mission
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Supplementary Memorandum
From Maurice Ostroff July 17, 2009
To the members of the UN Human...
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The 1948 War of Independence in a nutshell
By Maurice Ostroff
Edited by Zipporah Porath and Smoky Simon
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Click here for more about the 1948 war
On November 29, 1947, the UN voted to partition western Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab States (GA Resolution...
The 1948 War of Indepenence in maps
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The 1947 UN Partition Plan (Resolution 181)
The borders of the proposed Jewish State would have been indefensible. Overall, it was to comprise...
The Algemeiner
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The Anti-terror Barrier - Where the International Court of Justice went wrong.
A Dangerous And Faulty Ruling Re Self-Defense
By Maurice Ostroff ...
THE ANTI-TERROR CONFERENCE 2007
Confronting the terror threat
David E. Kaplan , THE JERUSALEM POST
Sep. 25, 2007
It began with Imagine, John Lennon's immortal song. The audience loved it. Some joined in singing quietly, others hummed. If some had forgotten the lyrics, most recalled...
THE APARTHEID EPITHET AND BDS
By Maurice Ostroff
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THE APARTHEID EPITHET and BDS
The word “apartheid” is widely used as a pejorative propaganda epithet in the full knowledge that the description is unjustified. As with every cou...
THE APARTHEID EPITHET AND BDS
By Maurice Ostroff
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THE APARTHEID EPITHET and BDS
The word “apartheid” is widely used as a pejorative propaganda epithet in the full knowledge that the description is unjustified. As with every country in ...
The Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate on Palestine
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The Balfour Declaration
November 2nd, 1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with...
The bombing of Beirut in perspective
See also "How it began"
By Maurice Ostroff
Contrary to the impression created by the media, Israeli bombing of Beirut has been confined to only 1% of the city. The targets have been confined to Hizbollah terrorist command centers in the south.
In...
The Doha Debates - did Hezbollah have the right to drag Lebanon into a war?
Qatar audience believes Hezbollah was justified in fighting a war on Lebanon's behalf
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The Doha Debates, a monthly public forum takes place in Qatar and hosted by BBc's Tim Sebastian are broadcast...
THE FORWARD IS MISTAKEN ABOUT SOUTH AFRICAN JEWS AND APARTHEID
Below is a letter the Forward didn't acknowledge
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THE FULLER PICTURE
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The GAZA OPERATION and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
The letter below is in response to the Haaretz article copied in the right hand column, which in turn relates to Melanie Phillips' article copied below
The GAZA OPERATION and JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY
The letter below is in response to the Haaretz article copied in the right hand column, which in turn relates to Melanie Phillips' article copied below
The Gaza War 2014
Click here for a methodically researched and documented paper on the 2014 Gaza War. It provides the factual material essential to evaluating the conflict by anyone who purports to judge impartially, including the UN commission, politicians, journalists...
The Gaza wars in context
GAZA AND ISRAEL HOSTILITIES WEINER AND BELL
Protective edge - the 2014 war in Gaza
THE GOLDSTONE MISSION TO GAZA 2009
For two video memoranda to the mission go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx-CW3UKoIg&feature=related
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLFAJK5LtwY
Click on the relevant link
Setting the record straight on Goldstone's Washington Post...
The Guardian on Israel and South Africa's nuclear program
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as well as Israel and Souh Africa's apartheid regime
The Guardian re Goldstone and pollution of argument
Below is a submission sent to the Guardian in response to the article reproduced in the right hand column below.
Question. Will the Guardian respect the right of reply?
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THE ICC and complementarity
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The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute was established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community.
The ICC is an...
The ICC and Israel
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Letters from the The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ)
a) January 8, 2015 re jurisdiction, Hamas and Palestine
To The Honorable Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor
The Honorable ...
THE IMMINENT UN REPORT ON GAZA
Better late than never - Recent authoritative submissions
Although the Israel government refused to cooperate with the UN commission of inquiry on the 2014 Gaza War, a number of concerned citizens and NGO's presented cogent well researched submissions...
The Incitement is still there - December 2004
Jerusalem Post
By Maurice Ostroff December 21, 2004
Palestinian textbooks and incitement have became topical subjects recently. Hanan Ashrawi lightly brushed off a question about Palestinian incitement put to her by Ruthie Blum in an interview pub...
The Iran nuclear deal
The VW debacle and superficial IAEA inspection of Iranian sites
Amendments to the nuclear that should be uncontroversial;
The complete JCPOA with annexes
Evaluating the nuclear deal on its merits - Part 1
Evaluating the nuclear deal on...
THE ISRAEL ARMY
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The Israel Lobby - London Review of Books - March 2006
By Ptofessors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
The Israel Lobby
For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering...
The Israel lobby Brouhaha - An open letter to Professors Mearsheimer and Walt - May 2006
as well as a reply by Professor Walt and a letter to the presidents of the universities
Click here for the article in London Review of Books to which this letter responds
From Maurice Ostroff May 7, 2006
To Professors Mearsheimer...
THE ISRAEL-SOUTH AFRICA NUCLEAR ARMS STORY
The Guardian refused to publish the letter below, which refutes misleading claims in the Guarduan article that is reproduced below this letter
To the editorThe GuardianFrom Maurice Ostroff May 29, 2010Response to the Guardian's sensational...
The Legalities in a nutshell
Extracts from "INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT" by Ian Lacey, B.A., LL.B.
The complete text is available at
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ARAB-ISRAEL CONFLICT
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The main obstacle to a peaceful solution to the Hamas-Israel conflict
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The motivation of Gaza flotilla participants
Freda Keet responds to a letter in the Jerusalem Post
THE NATIONHOOD STORM IN A TEACUP
Click here for a letter to NY Times columnist Tom Friedman on Palestinian nationhood
By MAURICE OSTROFF
December 29, 2011
Validity of Palestinian claims to statehood are not affected one iota by external definitions.
The international...
THE OBSTACLE TO A PEACEFUL SOLUTION OF THE HAMAS-ISRAEL CONFLICT
First published in the Intellectual Conservative
See also incitement
See also IDF behavior in Gaza battle
By Maurice Ostroff
January 4, 2009
President Sarkozy and other intermediaries should focus on the insidious role of incitement in the...
THE OCCUPATION
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Yitzchak Rabin on Israel's future borders. Remarks in his last speech
President Obama, Rabin's Legacy and the words we use
International law relating to occupation and settlements
The o...
The occupation in perspective
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A call for a contextual understanding
By Maurice...
The Palestinian application for statehood in a topsy-turvy world
By Maurice Ostroff October 14, 2011
It is strange that no query was raised at the UN when Mr. Abbas who has been prevented from visiting Gaza since the Hamas takeover, claimed that he was speaking on behalf of the...
The power of headlines
The power of headlines
By Maurice Ostroff
Op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2006
Headlines are .tightly written because of space limitations. They should, nevertheless, conform to minimum standards of joumalistic integrity. The...
The Power of Political Misinformation
By Shankar Vedantam
Monday, September 15, 2008; A06
Have you seen the photo of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin brandishing a rifle while wearing a U.S. flag bikini? Have you read the e-mail saying Democratic presidential nominee...
The puzzling deferral of the UNHRC resolution
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The puzzling deferral of the UNHRC decision
Oct. 11, 2009
Maurice Ostroff
Despite the controversy it has aroused, the decision by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to defer a recommendation...
The Road Map
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/A+Performance-Based+Roadmap+to+a+Permanent+Two-Sta.htm
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A Performance-Based Roadmap to a Permanent Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict...
THE RUSSELL TRIBUNAL
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THE SAN REMO CONFEERENCE IN CONTEXT
It is impossible to understand the complex legal implications of the Arab-Israel conflict without an acquaintance with the basics of following context.
THE SAN REMO CONFERENCE
in relation to
McMAHON, SYKES-PICOT, THE BALFOUR DECLARATION, AND...
THE SIX-DAY WAR & RESOLUTION 242
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The special matza that saved Kibbutz Sufa
Guest blogger Dan Gordon, an IDF reservist from Arizona, sent this post from Jerusalem to JN Blog. He wrote?
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The following article was posted by Jewish Mom on July 30, 2014 in Current Events, Inspiration, Israel
The ...
The stone the builders rejected and the Goldstone report
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First published in the Intellectual Conservative
The Stone the Builders Rejected
and the Goldstone Report
by Richard Landes and Maurice Ostroff | November 9th, 2009
The UN Fact Finding Mission...
The UN fact-finding mission - is it impartial
This article was first published in the Global Politician
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25693-israel-united-nations
Memorandum to the fact-finding mission re Gilad Shalit and incitement (click here)
Is the UN Fact-finding mission into Gaza impartial?
By...
The UN report - part 2
What the report should have told us but didn’t
Human shields and casualty figures
The report avoids mentioning the following verifiable reasons for the evidently high civilian casualty rate
a) Gazan citizens were not allowed to take refuge in the vast number of tunnels controlled by Hamas.
b)...
The UN report on the 2014 Gaza war part 4: Comments by a man who knows what he is talking about - Colonel Richard Justin Kemp CBE
Unlike the Commisioners who have no military experience, Colonel Kemp was commander of an infantry battalion of British Forces in Afghanistan. He served in the the Gulf War, the Bosnian War, the War in Afghanistan and the Iraq War. He is a Commander of...
The UN report part 1
Who is more credible in evaluating a military operation?
A judge and a politician in their armchairs in Geneva and Amman who obtain much of their information by telephone and Skype interviews as unambiguously admitted in the latest UNHRC report on the 2014 Gaza War and who lack the essential military background...
The UN report Part 3: The blockade of Gaza
The Commission's recommendation that Israel "lift, immediately and unconditionally , the blockade on Gaza" is highly irresponsible and reflects a dangerous lack of understanding of the Arab-Israel conflict
The report refers persistently but incorrectly...
The VW debacle: is it the tip of an iceberg?
Who is supervising the IAEA, the EU, the World Bank,
the world’s stock exchanges and the big banks?
Roman poet Juvenal asked:
And in 1887 Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, wrote:
The system of checks and balances i...
The wars in Gaza 2014
International Law and the Fighting in Gaza by WEINER AND BELL © 2008 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
The West caves in to Iran's continued refusal
to disclose nuclear information demanded by the IAEA
According to AP on June 12, 2015
Western diplomats reportedly back off requiring Iran to promptly disclose pre-2003 nuclear weapons work
According to AP. much of Iran's alleged work on warheads, delivery systems and detonators predates 2003, when Iran's...
Times of Israel
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/maurice-ostroff/
Trevor Norwitz analyzes the flaws in the Goldstone report
A personal letter from NY attorney Trevor Norwitz to Judge Goldstone
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In a letter to friends, Norwitz apologizes for the length of the following letter he sent to Richard Goldstone, explaining...
Two articles from Australia
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Two shrines
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NOTE
Among the very many enthusiastic...
TWO SHRINES - (IRAN AND ISRAEL)
2_Shrines_Xian ex Rufus
UN CHARTER
Charter of the United Nations; June 26, 1945
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought...
US Congress leaders write to the chairman
of UN inquiry into 2014 Gaza war
Senior leaders of both parties encourage the UN inquiry
to rely on independent, expert analysis of the conflict.
The Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee sent a ...
Victims can now sue supporters of apartheid - Latest news
The Johannesburg Mail & Guardian reported today, October 13, that a US appellate court has at last allowed claims by victims of apartheid including South Africa's non-profit Khulumani Support Group, against dozens of major companies to go forward.
Ignoring...
Video memorandum from Maurice Ostroff to the UN Commission on Gaza 2014
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Was the Qana tragedy staged?
Bloggers take Center Stage
Maurice Ostroff
The word “blog” has become a familiar part of our vocabulary. It is an abbreviated form of weblog, an evolving type of website on which “bloggers” express their views on everything from fo...
Washington Post re Getting tough on Israel
Letter from Maurice Ostroff in response to editorial in the Washington Post
What is a "factoid"?
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What is a factoidWhat is a factoid
Answers.com describes a factoid as a piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part...
What the professors should have told us, but didn't
The Jewish and Arab Lobbies
By Maurice Ostroff
When Jews were forbidden to blow the shofar at their holiest site
Did you know that during the British mandate over Palestine, the British government prohibited Jews from blowing the shofar at their holiest site, the Western Wall?
Echoes of a Shofar" is the premiere episode in the "Eyewitness 1948" short film series...
Why bother to check the content and implications
before concluding an agreement?
https://youtu.be/95BNlWr1do4
The revelation by US Senator Tom Cotton and Rep. Mike Pompeo, that two secret side agreements were concluded by the IAEA with Iran requires the most serious examination of the agreement on its merits only, putting...
Why did the UN report on the 2014 Gaza war ignore these military experts?
High ranking experts who contradict the UN Gaza report
Left to right
Top row
General Klaus Naumann, Former Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr and Chairman of the NATO Military Committe
Admiral Jose Maria Teran Former Chief of the Joint Staff...
Will Kerry’s framework honor Rabin’s legacy?
Published in Feb. 2014 but still highly relevant now in April 2015
Opinion Columnists
COLUMNISTS By MAURICE OSTROFF February 9, 2014
As Israel and the Palestinians await US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework proposals, it is highly r...
WOW! The Guardian apologizes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1227171,00.html
Open door
A dangerous kind of ambiguity
The readers' editor on ... a justified complaint about an indefensible headline
Ian Mayes
Saturday May 29, 2004
Guardian
Among...
Yediot article about Maurice Ostroff
April 5, 2011
YNET AND YEDIOT
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3112791,00.html
YOUTUBE
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