Emet News Service

Summary ... Israeli policy-makers and opinion-makers — and those who organize international conferences in Jerusalem involving Islam — should be wary of relying too much on the views of Messrs. Lewis and Pipes. Anyone who has read Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America knows of his   read more ...

Upon the death of Yasir Arafat, [U.S.] President George W. Bush declared, "We express our condolences to the Palestinian people." Why condolences? Would it be appropriate to offer condolences to the German people upon the death of Adolph Hitler? Must not the German people be held responsible for   read more ...

Summary ... Even today, while the Bush administration boycotts Yasir Arafat, it holds talks with PA/PLO officials who answer directly to him. The PA/PLO and PLO still have diplomatic legations in Washington, even though a major terrorist group, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, is openly affiliated with   read more ...

Summary ... There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem: the myth that this was Arab land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine [sic] from the Arabs; they took it from the British, who exercised   read more ...

Some 30 years ago Abba Eban, Israel's foreign minister, commenting on the heavy bias the Arabs enjoy in the UN General Assembly, declared that if the Arabs were to propose to the UN a resolution that the earth was flat, it would be passed by an overwhelming majority. Nothing has changed since then   read more ...

Summary ... This is a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the Arab-Israeli conflict. For the many readers who have requested a brief synopsis of the moral arguments in the Arab-Israeli conflict, I offer the following list of numerical data. Number of times Jerusalem is mentioned in the Old   read more ...

There are many Christians, Muslims and, yes, even Jews wishing to escape their obligations under God and the hostility this responsibility brought to them. There is not enough paper to detail the numerous gods, demons, underworld deities that man has conjured up to overwhelm the One God of the   read more ...

Summary ... Once again the otherwise fractured "international community" has come together in one of those rare moments of unity, made possible only by the time-honored ritual of condemning whatever policy Israel is currently pursuing to protect its citizens from terrorism. Last Wednesday, the   read more ...

Summary ... There are 59 UNRWA refugee camps for Arabs. Of this total, 28 camps are in Judea, Samaria, the Gaza Strip, and eastern Jerusalem. The rest are in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. The population of the camps, since 1949, has gone from 500,000 Arabs mushrooming to 4 million, doubling about   read more ...

There is no such thing as a Palestinian Arab nation . . . Palestine is a name the Romans gave to Eretz Yisrael with the express purpose of infuriating the Jews .... Why should we use the spiteful name meant to humiliate us? The British chose to call the land they mandated Palestine, and the Arabs   read more ...