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P. David Hornik
P. David Hornik is a freelance writer and translator in Beersheva, Israel. His memoir, Israel Odyssey: A Journey of Coming of Age and Finding Peace in the Middle East, is forthcoming later this year from Liberty Island.
by | Nov 29, 2010

The Financial Times reported last week on a “sharp rise” in torture cases in the West Bank, which is governed by the Fatah-affiliated Palestinian Authority and thought to be a good deal more moderate than Hamas-ruled Gaza, as well as a…

by | Oct 13, 2010

In May 2009 the Obama administration called on Israel to stop all settlement activity in the West Bank, including “natural growth.” President Obama assumed that this settlement activity was the basic obstacle to peace with the Palestinians — even though…

by | Sep 30, 2010

Not surprisingly, Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s speech to the UN General Assembly this week drew condemnations, with Palestinian delegates walking out on the speech. Israel’s left-wing daily Haaretz ran an article claiming U.S. Jews were “outraged.” It quotes extreme-dovish…

by | Sep 24, 2010

A meeting in New York this week of the UN’s Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee ended on a dissonant note. The committee’s purpose is to coordinate financial aid for the Palestinian Authority. At this meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon was in…

by | Sep 15, 2010

An AP story now going around the web is called “Young Israelis are moving to Berlin in droves.” It says: Nobody knows exactly how many Israelis have moved [to Berlin] in recent years; unofficial estimates suggest 9,000 to 15,000…. The…

by | Nov 5, 2009

“The scale and extremism of the [anti-Semitic] literature and commentary available in Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, films, and educational materials, is comparable only to…

by | May 12, 2009

In his meeting with Vice President Joe Biden last week, Israeli President Shimon Peres is reported to have said that “ending natural growth in settlements was a non-starter” and, in his own words, that “Israel cannot instruct settlers in existing…

by | Mar 30, 2009

United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror By Jamie Glazov
(WND Books, 264 pages, $25.95) What drives an intelligent, successful Western person — a professor, a movie star, a novelist — to venerate totalitarian movements and even make…

by | Aug 13, 2008

In August in Tel Aviv there are at last days when the heat and humidity slightly relent, a breeze blows in from the sea, and you can walk to the supermarket and back — at least in the morning —…

by | Apr 24, 2008

This Passover week, supposed to be a time of celebration of freedom in the Land of Israel, it’s hard to be cheerful in light of Israel’s grim security situation. Hamas, from its Gaza enclave created by Israel’s boorish “disengagement” in…

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