Efraim Karsh
ARTICLES BY: Efraim Karsh
Hamas’ Mission: Relentless Jihad
While many in the West were quick to condemn Israel for its response to Hamas’ attacks on its population centers, they must face up to...
The San Remo Conference — 100 Years On
There is probably no more understated event in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict than the San Remo Conference of April 1920. Convened for a mere...
Revisionist ‘Scholars’ Seek to Distort and Disparage David Ben-Gurion
By ignoring millions of declassified documents from the period of the British Mandate (1920-48) and Israel’s early days that show the claim of premeditated dispossession...
The Depths to Which the Oslo Process Has Driven Israel
In the 25 years since the signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993, just one of the 10 reigning Israeli governments has completed its...
The Oslo Disaster Revisited: How It Happened
Precisely two decades after the failure by the Golda Meir government to identify a willing Arab peace partner triggered the devastating 1973 Yom Kippur War,...
In Gaza, It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
It is not the economic malaise in the Gaza Strip that has precipitated Palestinian violence. It is the other way around -- the endemic violence has caused...
The Palestinians Don’t Want a Two-State Solution
I never thought that I would concur with anything written by veteran Israeli “peace” activist Uri Avnery, but I find myself in full agreement with his...
Israeli Attitudes Toward Egypt, 40 Years After Sadat’s Visit
Forty years ago this month, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat landed at Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport for a two-day visit to Jerusalem, at the official invitation of...
Arabs and Turks Welcomed the Balfour Declaration
"One hundred years have passed since the notorious Balfour Declaration, by which Britain gave, without any right, authority or consent from anyone, the land of...
Why Abbas Should Endorse Balfour Declaration
“The Balfour Declaration promised Palestine -- over which Britain had no legal right -- to a people who had no claim whatsoever to the country, nor did...
The War Against the Jews
The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since...
The Middle East’s Real Apartheid
In light of Israel Apartheid Week, which hit cities and campuses throughout the world recently, supporters of the Jewish state find it difficult to agree...
Betraying Ben-Gurion
It is ironic that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel's only university bearing the name of the Jewish state's founding father, and established in...
Haaretz: The Paper for Thinking People?
Of the countless threats of Arab violence in the run-up to the November 29, 1947 Partition Resolution and in its wake, none has resonated more...