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The Palestinian Refugee Issue: Rhetoric vs. Reality

April 28, 2008 | Sidney Zabludoff

The sixty-year-old Palestinian refugee issue has little connection with reality. It has become solely a bargaining chip used by Arabs and Palestinians in peace talks with Israel and, as such, is a distraction from the real issues of terrorism and boundaries. The same pattern evolved for Jews who fled Middle Eastern and North African countries, even though their number was some 50 percent larger than Palestinian refugees and the difference in individual assets lost was even greater.

The Big Lie and the Media War Against Israel: From Inversion of the Truth to Inversion of Reality

March 1, 2007 | Joel Fishman

From the 1960s, inversion of truth and reality has been one the most favored propaganda methods of Israel’s adversaries. One of its most frequent expressions has been the accusation that the Jewish people, victims of the Nazis, have now become the new Nazis, aggressors and oppressors of the Palestinian Arabs. Contemporary observers have identified this method and described it as an “inversion of reality,” an “intellectual confidence trick,” “reversing moral responsibility,” or “twisted logic.” B

Nelly Sayagh on La Guerre d’Oslo

March 1, 2006 | Nelly Sayagh

The Oslo War La Guerre d’Oslo, by Joel Fishman and Efraim Karsh, Editions de Passy, 257 pp. (French) Reviewed by Nelly Sayagh

Virtual Reality Comes to Canadian Jewry: The Case of the Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary

February 11, 1999 | Prof. Ira Robinson

The Israeli Constitution Today: Reform and Reality

December 15, 1989 | Daniel J. Elazar