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Alan Baker

The author, an Israeli international lawyer, served as legal counsel for the Foreign Ministry and as Israel’s ambassador to Canada. He has participated in several sessions of the General Assembly’s legal committee. He was seconded to the legal office of the UN, and has since then, after returning to Israel, been involved in the negotiation and drafting of the various peace agreements and related documentation. He is presently director of the International Law Program at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
A STATUE of George Washington is tied with a Palestinian flag and keffiyeh at George Washington University in Washington last year. The keffiyeh is consistently employed as a symbol of revolt, incitement, and terror, says the writer.

How the keffiyeh has been co-opted and weaponized - opinion

The keffiyeh is now worn as a symbol of violence, terror, incitement, and antisemitism.

JUNE 19, 2025
Gideon Sa'ar, Foreign Affairs Minister, March 28, 2024.

'Hasbara' has failed: Israel must adopt rights-based diplomacy - opinion

It is high time that Israel’s approach to the international community be one of confidence and assertiveness, not of apology.

MARCH 10, 2025
CANADA’S FOREIGN MINISTER Melanie Joly attends an ASEAN meeting, in Vientiane, Laos, in July. She and her colleagues and supporters from Quebec seem to be imbibed with a caustic hatred of Israel, the writer charges.

Canada’s betrayal of Israel: 'Irresponsible and shameful' - opinion

This betrayal of Israel is embarrassing for any true supporter of Canada as well as of true Canadian values. It should be roundly condemned.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The ICJ parrots political clichés to generate the fiction of Palestinian statehood - opinion

The ICJ is deliberately ignoring Israel’s long-recognized and legitimate historical and legal claims to the areas.

JULY 22, 2024
NAWAF SALAM, president of the International Court of Justice, speaks at in The Hague. The writer notes that the court is deliberately ignoring Israel’s legitimate historical and legal claims to the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

Turkish refusal to refuel El Al flight: An offensive violation of intl. obligations - opinion

Political tensions and hostilities don't allow airport and aviation authorities the right to ignore their international duties.

JULY 7, 2024
AN ISRAIR plane is painted with the Israeli and Turkish flags, at Ben-Gurion Airport, as Israeli commercial flights to Turkey resume, February 2023.

Guterres’s coddling of Iran shows the UN's credibility is dying - opinion

Iravani proudly boasted of his country’s promise to “obliterate Israel if Israel attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon.” 

JULY 2, 2024
IRAN’S AMBASSADOR to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani addresses the General Assembly during a ceremonial tribute to Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi, after the president was killed in a helicopter crash, in May.

Only in our absurd world, terror is rewarded with statehood - opinion

Only in the world of the absurd can the majority of the international community deliberately ignore the openly genocidal intentions of Iran, Hamas, and other Palestinian terror organizations.

MAY 13, 2024
ISRAEL’S UN AMBASSADOR Gilad Erdan uses a paper shredder to tear up a copy of the United Nations Charter as he addresses the General Assembly before a vote on recognizing the Palestinians as qualified to become a full UN member, last Friday.

ICC has been hijacked, politicized, abused - opinion

I shudder at unbelievable abuse of ICC Statute and of noble aims and intentions of its founding fathers, says legal expert.

APRIL 30, 2024
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court in The Hague.

Antisemitism must be criminalized before it's too late - opinion

Since the October 7 brutal and reprehensible massacre of Israeli and foreign civilians and the taking of hostages, the world is witnessing an unprecedented resurgence of pure antisemitism.

FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A PROTEST organized by Palestinian solidarity groups and activists takes place in Copenhagen last month. The genocidal calls of ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ are accompanied by massively financed and marketed Palestinian paraphernalia, scarves, flags, and posters.

Call for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state complete legal misconception - opinion

Any unilaterally imposed recognition of a Palestinian state by the international community would be tantamount to undermining this final clause of the Oslo Accords.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024
US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken takes part in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. One may legitimately ask whether these people really understand what they are talking about, the writer argues.

The two-state solution is not the only road to peace - opinion

Other options exist for resolving the dispute and granting the Palestinians self-rule and governance, including autonomy, federation, confederation, condominium, and co-imperium.

FEBRUARY 7, 2024
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visit Israel in October

South Africa’s genocide charges against Israel: Cynical abuse of the ICJ - opinion

The terms used in South Africa's application to the ICJ are ironic, especially in light of its distorted interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

JANUARY 10, 2024
THE INTERNATIONAL Court of Justice in The Hague: It is ironic that the world’s principal judicial organ is being petitioned by South Africa, at the evident behest and initiative of the Palestinian leadership, to adjudge Israel for the alleged crime of genocide, says the writer.

After the war: A two-state solution? - opinion

The phrase “two-state solution” is constantly being repeated, but is it realistic?

DECEMBER 6, 2023
PALESTINIANS WAVE Hamas flags in the West Bank in solidarity with Gaza. Calls to restore the PA as the governing entity in Gaza are no less naïve than calls for a ‘two-state solution,’ argues the writer.