January 26, 2006 Hamas, the militant Palestinian opposition group, wins 76 of the 132 seats in the Palestinian Authority’s legislature, a groundbreaking power shift. Because Hamas rejects Israel’s existence, the election results present a new…
While the Palestinian official leading the technocratic Gaza administration promises to open the Rafah Crossing and the Bulgarian high commissioner for Gaza urges the world to focus on the big picture, U.S. envoy Jared Kushner lays out a vision for Gaza as a rapid, phased real estate redevelopment.
7 de diciembre de 2025 Fuente: https://www.gov.il/en/pages/event-germany071225 En su primera visita de Estado a Israel desde que asumió el cargo en mayo de 2025, el canciller alemán Friedrich Merz se reunió con el primer ministro…
17 de noviembre de 2025 Fuente: https://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/pdf/SCRes3.pdf El 17 de noviembre de 2025, el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU votó por 13 votos a favor y 0 en contra a favor de una resolución…
13 octubre de 2025 Fuente: https://www.youtube.com/live/Jh-NE0hQyk4?si=9g9lILAubHN66Icj&t=9192 Tras la bienvenida del presidente de la Knéset, Amir Ohana, y los discursos del primer ministro, Benjamin Netanyahu , y del líder de la oposición, Yair Lapid , el…
29 de julio de 2025 Fuente: https://onu.delegfrance.org/new-york-declaration Conmocionada por la gravedad de la guerra de Gaza y la inmovilidad en el proceso de negociación palestino-israelí, la ONU ofrece una hoja de ruta diplomática para poner…
A Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference makes an effective, largely successful case for the League of Nations to incorporate a future Jewish national home into the British Mandate for Palestine.
The Trump administration’s proposed charter for the Board of Peace, the body the United Nations has charged with overseeing the Gaza ceasefire, does not mention Gaza or any other specific location of operation but does grant its chairman, Donald Trump, extensive control over its mission and operations.
Efforts through a judicial overhaul to increase political control over Israel’s judiciary and civil service are simmering. In March 2025, the Knesset passed a controversial law to change the composition of the Judicial Selection Committee….
December 4, 2025 Source (Hebrew): Conference of the Association for Public Law, https://www.maariv.co.il/news/law/article-1259010 Introduction Aharon Barak argues in a speech to the Israeli Association for Public Law’s conference in Haifa that Israeli democracy is being…
Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit warns about the danger to the Israeli public and democracy of sustained political attacks on the judiciary and individual judges.
Updated January 5, 2026; originally posted October 2023. By Ken Stein Hamas’ Origins The 1988 Hamas Charter and remarks by its leaders and other publications express hatred of Zionism, Israel and Jews. It is thus unmistakable that Hamas…
January 2, 2026 A week of unrest in Iran does not guarantee a revolution even if 85-plus million Iranians are angry at the country’s autocratic, theological rulers. Iran is a security-clerical oligarchy where kleptocracy, cronyism…
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, December 31, 2025 Yousef Algoos, “MBS in Washington: A new era of strategic tech-alliance,” Al-Arabiya, December 14, 2025. Thomas Albery, “A Crisis of crises: What is going on in Iran?”…
In their fifth U.S. meeting of 2025, President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu show unity on Gaza, Hamas, Iran and their mutual appreciation for each other but offer glimpses of differences on Turkey, Syria and the West Bank.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III brings a realistic and prescient vision of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations and U.S. mediation to AIPAC early in the George H.W. Bush presidency.
The fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act shifts U.S. military cooperation with Israel to a postwar focus, including support for neighbors facing Iranian proxies and a response to military embargoes of Israel.
1946 — “Los árabes [palestinos] están divididos políticamente debido, principalmente, a las disputas personales entre sus líderes. Estos conflictos se centran en las diferencias entre la familia Husseini y sus rivales. A nivel social, se…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio explains the urgent need to establish the Board of Peace and the International Stabilization Force for Gaza to move from Phase 1 to Phase 2 in the ceasefire, but he also warns that the work likely will last longer than the Trump administration.
Failing to account for the effects on his re-election hopes, President Jimmy Carter for the second of three times in 1980 lets the U.N. Security Council enact a resolution criticizing Israeli behavior beyond the Green Line.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat issues a declaration with five American Jewish leaders in an effort to meet U.S. conditions for dialogue and thus strengthen his position as the leader of the Palestinian national movement.
In an unprecedented presidential political gamble, President Carter meets Prime Minister Begin and then President Sadat to tie up loose ends for an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, signed two weeks later. During the trip, he delivers the first Knesset address by a U.S. president.
Chancellor Merz’s visit coincides with Germany signing the largest Israeli military arms export agreement, covering the Arrow 3, and his support of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Netanyahu recalls centuries of efforts to annihilate Jews, including those in Germany and by Hamas, and says Israel will not give up military control of West Bank land.
These 14 Zionist posters about the festival of Hanukkah work with CIE’s “Israel: A Curriculum for Grades 2-7.” Download the posters at the following links:
