Epstein Secrets

e Web site is in Hebrew). Israel built 2,534 housing units last year in the West Bank. Of these, about a quarter (694) were in two major blocs near Jerusalem, Giv'at Ze'ev and Betar Illit, and 537 were in two other major blocs, Modiin Illit and Ma'ale Adumim, also near Jerusalem. These four, which will r

the Pakistani economy. Last month in Tokyo, the crown prince celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the first Japanese Muslim to make the hajj to Mecca, and more importantly, signed a number of bilateral agreements on investment, trade and security cooperation. Japan imports more than a million bar

ring, of this latest flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence. Changing Power Structures The current conflict recalls the war of 2008- 2009, when Jerusalem chose to retaliate with a military strike against continued rocket and mortar fire from Gaza shortly after a US election and just months ahead of

aughter of a Protestant mother of Northern European ancestry and a father whose name, Abu El-Haj, tells us that a forebear made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Nadia Abu El-Haj's avowed purpose is to make clear "the ways in which `the past' is understood to be a constitutive element of the self." The ke

e, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall? My mother’s answer: “Practice, practice, practice law, like my son.” My next encounter with Havel took place in Jerusalem during the celebration of Israel’s 60 birthday. Havel, Sharansky and I were on a panel together discussing human rights. When it was over we got onto

dily agreed, despite my disagreement with many of Malcolm X’s views, particularly with regard to the Middle East. He had just returned from a trip to Mecca and Medina, where he embraced Islam and began to say some pretty awful things about Israel, Zionists and Jews. But believing as I do in free speech,

ng an Oxford companion to the Arab-Israeli conflict was first presented to me in 2005 by Markus Bouillon, who served for me both in my UN capacity in Jerusalem and at the International Peace Institute (IPI) in New York. Nur Laiq laboriously and faithfully collected most of the relevant documents and contrib-

9 November 1947 14 May 1948 15 May 1948 29 May 1948 First World War. Letter from British High Commissioner McMahon to Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. Sykes—Picot Agreement. Balfour Declaration. 4 days of violent rioting against Jews in Jerusalem. Opening of the San Remo Conference. Treaty of