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Is Egypt Heading toward a Military Regime?
Amb. Alan Baker
Publications by Amb. Alan Baker
Biased, Prejudiced, and Unprofessional: The UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission Report on Israeli Settlements
A UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements showed blatant bias, lack of objectivity and unprofessional conduct. Read More »
Is Jerusalem Really Negotiable?
Why has a resolution of the Jerusalem question defied all past negotiators? This study analyzes the various proposals for solving the issue of Jerusalem.
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The Legal Basis of Israel’s Rights in the Disputed Territories
1. Upon Israel’s taking control of the area in 1967, the 1907 Hague Rules on Land Warfare and the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) were not considered applicable to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) territory, as the Kingdom of Jordan, ... Read More »
The Palestinian UN Upgrade: Setting Things Straight
The UN upgrade resolution has neither created a Palestinian state, nor did it grant any kind of statehood to the Palestinians. Read More »
Changing Forms of Incitement to Terror and Violence:
The Need for a New International Response
Incitement is the medium through which the ideology of terror materializes into the act of terror. Read More »
Sinai, the New Egypt, and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
The challenge posed by the evolving character of Sinai should be handled within the context of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. Read More »
Draft International Convention for the Prevention of Incitement to Terror
Incitement has become one of the major tactical weapons in the arsenal of certain governments terror organizations and societies in advocating terror, violence and hatred. Read More »
Manipulation and Deception: The Anti-Israel “BDS” Campaign (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions)
The BDS movement is composed of a small number of well-financed activists encouraged by senior Palestinian figures. Read More »
Israel’s Rights as a Nation-State in International Diplomacy
This book explains clearly why the Jewish people deserve a state of their own and refutes all the major claims against Israel’s rights. Read More »
Amb. Alan Baker on the Problem of Palestinian Incitement To Violence
One of the major obstacles to peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict is the incitement to violence, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic indoctrination that is so pervasive in all levels of Palestinian society. Officially-sanctioned and encouraged incitement against Israel and against Jews inevitably ... Read More »
A Blast from the Past: The Upcoming Durban III Conference (September 2011)
A further attempt to re-legitimize the 2001 Durban Conference against Racism, which became an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate-fest, will take the form of a ten-year anniversary commemoration of the conference at the UN in New York on 22 September 2011. This event will coincide with the Palestinian attempt to have the UN recognize and accept a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, in violation of the peace negotiation process. This juncture of events confirms the interconnection between the Durban process and the ongoing international campaign to delegitimize Israel. Read More »
The Gaza Flotillas to Come: Some Ground Rules before Setting Out
There is no humanitarian emergency among the civilian population in Gaza, and hence there can be no justification for conveying emergency shipments intended to alleviate an emergency that clearly does not exist. Provoking a confrontation with Israel continues to be the primary aim of flotilla organizers like the Turkish IHH. Read More »
The Palestinian UN Gamble – Irresponsible and Ill-Advised
The Palestinian leadership has announced its intention to abandon the negotiation process and to unilaterally seek a UN resolution that will impose a solution upon Israel. Such a resolution would void the very basis of the peace process, undermine the legal existence of the Palestinian Authority, and render meaningless the signatures of the major powers as witnesses to previous agreements. Read More »
Palestinian Incitement as a Violation of International Legal Norms
Officially-sanctioned incitement against Israel and against Jews has become a central theme in all spheres of Palestinian society. Read More »
The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords
The Fourth Geneva Convention was never intended to refer to situations like Israel’s settlements. Read More »
The Fallacy of the “1967 Borders” – No Such Borders Ever Existed
The “1967 borders” do not exist and have no basis in history, law, or fact. Read More »
Recognition of a Palestinian State – Premature, Legally Invalid, and Undermining any Bona Fide Negotiation Process
The acts of recognition of a Palestinian state in 1967 borders by Brazil, Argentina, and possibly other Latin American states have no significance other than as a political expression of opinion.
The unceasing efforts among states by the leadership of the Palestinian Authority to attain recognition of unilateral statehood within the 1967 borders and thereby bypass the accepted negotiation process, runs counter to their commitments in their agreements with Israel, as witnessed and guaranteed by Read More »
Reasons Not to Join the International Criminal Court in The Hague
There has been talk recently about the possibility of Israel joining the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Unfortunately taking such a step could harm Israel more than benefit it. Read More »
A Paradox of Peacemaking: How Fayyad’s Unilateral Statehood Plan Undermines the Legal Foundations of Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad published a plan in August 2009 to unilaterally declare statehood after a two-year state-building process. However, any unilateral action that undermines the existing Oslo interim framework could jeopardize the peace process and remove the basis for the existence of the Palestinian Authority. Read More »