Public HealthPromoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peacebuilding through health initiatives Published online January 25, 2005 http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04art3217web.pdf Harvey Skinner, Ziad Abdeen, Hani Abdeen, Phil Aber, Mohammad Al-Masri, Joseph Attias, Karen B Avraham, Rivka Carmi, Catherine Chalin, Ziad El Nasser, Manaf Hijazi,…
read moreComment Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors The efforts noted by Harvey Skinner and colleagues in today’s Lancet would not have been possible 10 years ago, and the subject was taboo 15 years ago. The…
read moreMany new mutations of American anti-Semitism, and in particular its anti-Israeli forms, originate on the University campus. Much pro-Israel advocacy is carried out by new grassroots faculty groups such as Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). SPME’s preferred…
read morehttp://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/17/opinion/edavenstrup.html One of the most meaningful gauges of the integrity of a peace process and its likelihood for success is the degree to which the “peace partners” educate toward peace. It is for this reason that the entire education apparatus…
read moreTo the Editor: Roger Avenstrup (“Where is all that incitement?” IHT, December 18-19, 2004) blithely writes that the 2003 report of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) contends that the overall orientation of the Palestinian curriculum is “peaceful”.…
read moreIrwin J. Mansdorf, Ph.D., is a Diplomate of the American Board of Forensic Examiners, a licensed psychologist in Israel and the U.S.A., and coordinator of the Israel Citizens Information Council in Raanana, Israel. His previous Jerusalem Viewpoints was “The Psychological…
read more. • The main goal of modern Jihadism -a cataclysmic apocalyptic movement -is Islam’s dominance over the world. It makes millennial claims, promising that once Islam rules everywhere, there will be world peace. . • Jihad, as the millennial war,…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp519.htm . • Watershed events such as the Palestinian uprising in 2000 created major new challenges to the American Jewish leadership. Other mega-events such as September 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq also heavily influenced their environment. . •…
read moreThe disastrous outcome of the Oslo process – seven years of false peace negotiations that Yasser Arafat exploited to prepare a terror campaign – can be blamed on many factors. It was driven by the personal ambitions and naive optimism…
read moreDear Prof. Bloom,In the first paragraph of your response to my inquiry, you wrote “I have examined the issues, namely: the relation of IHLRI to the mission of the Program, the procedures and scope of input into IHLRI content, and…
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