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Alan Baker

Amb. Alan Baker is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs.

The accusers ignore the fact that the Israeli public suffer from ongoing and daily acts of terror committed by Palestinian and Islamist fanatics.
BtS’s adoption of extreme political and ideological anti-Israel bias and abandonment of legal or historic substantiation undermine any credibility it or its founders might once have had.
Belgium is encouraging the Palestinian leadership to undermine the Oslo Accords and violate international agreements.
As the tragic realities of years gone by are being replaced by a new Middle East, it is high time for the United Nations to seriously review its annual Israel-bashing parade.
Lebanon’s political leadership has represented the two nations as being in conflict; yet in 1983, they agreed to formally end the state of war between them, holding more than a dozen rounds of talks in 1991-93.
The instruments signed in Washington represent a significant symbolic and substantive breakthrough in the relationships between Israel and the Arab world.
The ultra-radical language of the radical left indicates a thought process based on misconceptions and flawed assumptions.
While the U.N. database has no legal teeth, nevertheless, it is a blatant attempt to harm companies maintaining commercial relations in the territories, and in so doing, to harm Israel.
The Palestinians’ ongoing rejectionism invalidates the Oslo Accords, leaving Israel no option but to act unilaterally to protect its security and historical rights.