Israeli elections? Jewish Arabs as Israeli Spies? Worldwide media bias?

On Tuesday, September 17 the Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival and Santa Fe Middle East Watch are pleased to bring to Santa Fe one of Israel’s best known journalists and authors, MATTI FRIEDMAN. Freidman joins SFMEW’s chairman, Halley Faust,  for […]

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On Ellen Shabshai Fox in the New Mexican 4-17-19

Chag kasher Sameach to all celebrating Passover starting this Friday night; Happy Easter to those celebrating this Sunday.  We hope you enjoy your seder(s)/services/ celebrations and the reflections they invite. Passover is about freedom.  We at SFMEW are grateful for […]

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Amb. Yoram Ettinger on “The Myth about Palestinian-Israeli Demographics”

On November 1, 2017 SFMEW sponsored Ambassador Yoram Ettinger, consultant on U.S./Israel Relations, and former Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy.  Amb. Ettinger spoke  on “The Myth about Palestinian-Israel Demographics” at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design Auditorium Forum. […]

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Bill Stewart and Gerald Rosen – Birds of a Feather in the New Mexican?

Interesting how the Santa Fe New Mexican is happy to publish articles that highlight negative and struggling aspects of Israel or its politics or leaders (see, for example, the past two weeks including here, here, here, and here), but doesn’t seem to cover positive […]

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The Confusion over Jerusalem in the Media; the role of the Ambassador-Designate, David Friedman

1.  The US Embassy in Jerusalem Should we move the US Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv?  Every presidential candidate since Bill Clinton (except for Hillary Clinton this year) has claimed (s)he would do it unilaterally, unrelated to any particular peace […]

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The History of the Term “Palestine”; Has There Ever Been a Sovereign Arab State in Palestine?

Origins of the Name “Palestine” from:  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/palname.html Though the definite origins of the word “Palestine” have been debated for years and are still not known for sure, the name is believed to be derived from the Egyptian and Hebrew word peleshet. […]

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