Aid to Palestinians Used to Build Hamas’ Tunnel Network (Sputnik News-Russia via Daily Alert)
Nov. 16, 2018 Aid to Palestinians Used to Build Hamas’ Tunnel Network Qanta A. Ahmed, a British-American Muslim media commentator, told Radio Sputnik she had visited the Gaza border this autumn “to see the tunnel networks that Hamas has built….[They] seemed to be high-finished concrete with ventilation, electrical wiring, [and] lightning. I went in…to see where the […]
Read More →Cutting Hamas Down to Size – Caroline B. Glick (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Nov. 16, 2018 Cutting Hamas Down to Size – Caroline B. Glick Israel does not seek to overthrow the Hamas regime in Gaza. And for good reason. The price of a war to overthrow Hamas would be exorbitant both in terms of the human and monetary cost of war. One option is that Israel pay the […]
Read More →Israel Withstands Rocket Barrage and the World Barely Noticed – Liat Collins (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Nov. 16, 2018 Israel Withstands Rocket Barrage and the World Barely Noticed – Liat Collins In this week’s two-day Rocket War, with the relative protection afforded by the Iron Dome, Israel withstood a barrage of close to 500 rockets and mortars within 25 hours, fired by a terrorist organization which controls Gaza with an iron fist […]
Read More →Solving the Problem of Gaza – Israel Kasnett (JNS via Daily Alert)
Nov. 16, 2018 Solving the Problem of Gaza – Israel Kasnett Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said, “everything that typically works doesn’t necessarily work in the Gaza Strip….There are always two competing forces when we look at these flare-ups. There is Israel’s desire to maintain calm, thinking […]
Read More →Israel Went to Extraordinary Lengths to Avoid Hurting Gaza Civilians, by Raf Sanchez (Twitter via Daily Alert)
Nov. 16, 2018 Israel Went to Extraordinary Lengths to Avoid Hurting Gaza Civilians (Twitter) Raf Sanchez, the Middle East correspondent of Britain’s Daily Telegraph, noted after returning from Gaza on Thursday: We’ve just come out of Gaza for a quick trip to see how things are after this week’s fighting. Hamas are buoyant. Their leaders are going […]
Read More →“Palestine was the biggest victim of World War I” (EoZ)
Nov. 12, 2018 The first sentence of this article in Al Madenah News, by Dr. Mustafa Yousef Alddawi, to mark the centennial of the end of World War I, is one of the most absurd things I’ve ever read in Arabic media. And that’s saying a lot. “There is no doubt that Palestine was the greatest victim […]
Read More →List of Louis Farrakhan’s antisemitic statements demolish his apologists’ arguments (EoZ)
Nov. 12, 2018 One of the more bizarre attempts to whitewash Louis Farrakhan’s antisemitism comes from Tim Wise, whose article I mentioned in my last post. The Nation’s theology is not steeped in anti-Jewishness. Most of Farrakhan’s speeches, of which there are thousands, make no mention of Jews at all. See? He’s not so bad! He sometimes talks […]
Read More →A Ceasefire in Gaza – Editorial (Weekly Standard via Daily Alert)
Nov. 14, 2018 A Ceasefire in Gaza – Editorial (Weekly Standard) For Israel to rely solely on its Iron Dome to intercept rockets is to normalize the terror coming from Gaza. The missile defense system has an 86% rate of efficacy, but rockets still make it through and kill and wound civilians. In Israeli towns like […]
Read More →The Jews of the North Africa under Muslim Rule by Ruthie Blum (Gatestone Inst.)
Book Review: Exile in the Maghreb Nov. 14, 2018 David Littman, before his untimely death from leukemia in 2012, had intended this book on the Maghreb to be the first in a series that would cover the social condition of the Jews in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Iran and Turkey — an […]
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