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Frieda R. F. Horwitz

Jul 5, 2024, 11:54 AM

Different style of negotiation in the Middle East

The Israeli government has been negotiating with Hamas over the release of hostages and for a possible ceasefire, aided by the Biden proposal currently on the table -- which the Hamas leadership has rejected. In the Western style of...

Mar 29, 2023, 1:22 PM

A shameful stain on Menachem Begin’s legacy

Every lawyer knows that the presentation of a court case is as vitally important to the judicial outcome as are the facts delineated in the case. That is equally valid for positions argued in the court of public opinion,...

Jul 29, 2021, 2:23 PM

Evolutionary Status Quo on the Temple Mount

To the Editor: On July 19 2021, headlines stated the protest of King Abdullah about Jewish visits and prayer on the temple Mount. Once again, Israeli media has repeated the untrue assertion about the so-called status quo of the sanctity on...

Feb 23, 2017, 5:11 PM

Are Palestinian Moslem Arabs Given Unique International Status?

Security Council Resolution 2334 has singled out Israeli communities built post 1967 in the disputed territories as “the settlement enterprise”, and referred to it as the central obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Not the disintegration of Tunisia...

Jun 15, 2014, 10:27 PM

The Obscene and the Absurd on the Temple Mount in 2014

There has not been a steady continuous status quo on the Mount since the Israeli victory in June 1967. Rather, there been a continuous erosion of Jewish presence and rights of the said status quo, aided and mistakenly abetted...

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A native of Milaukee, WIsconsin, made aliya in 1983. BA from Barnard College, MA in Contemporary Jewish Studies from Brandeis and Phd studies in International Relations and Middle East Studies from Columbia University and Hebrew University. National Associate Director of Union of Councils for Soviet Jews in USA, Executive Director of Program for Innovative Teaching and Assistant Director of Moetzet Yachad. Created and directed the experimental Coalition Project in Kiryat Menachem Jerusalem.