Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt Looks Back on U.S. Peace Efforts – Omri Nahmias (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Sept. 16, 2019 Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt Looks Back on U.S. Peace Efforts – Omri Nahmias (Jerusalem Post) In his first interview since announcing his resignation, Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt said he wouldn’t change any of the significant U.S. decisions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “The decisions we made were appropriate for what we are trying […]
Read More →Palestinians Are Tired of Being the Only Refugees Denied the Right to Resettlement – Evelyn Gordon (JNS via Daily Alert)
Sept. 12, 2019 Palestinians Are Tired of Being the Only Refugees Denied the Right to Resettlement – Evelyn Gordon Hundreds of Palestinian refugees demonstrated outside the Canadian Embassy in Beirut on Sept. 5 to request asylum in Canada or the EU, the second such protest in the last month. After more than 70 years, Palestinians are […]
Read More →The Bahrain Conference Represents a Great Opportunity for Peace – Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch (JNS via Daily Alert)
Jun. 11, 2019 The Bahrain Conference Represents a Great Opportunity for Peace – Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch (JNS) The “Arab refugees” of 1948/1950, now renamed the “Palestinian refugees,” are ostensibly represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization/Palestinian Authority. UN documentation claims that in 1948/1950 there were 711,000 refugees. According to UNRWA, in January 2018 there were over […]
Read More →Must Read: DEAR JEWISH-AMERICAN LEFTISTS: IT’S TIME FOR A TALK, by Valerie Sobel (FPM)
Mar. 13, 2019 You have the power to determine how history will judge us. From one Jew to another. From one parent/grandparent to another. From one who utters “Never Again!” to another. From one witnessing the vile anti-Semitic floats in Belgian parades to another. From one in horror watching the U.K. descend into 100 monthly […]
Read More →Swiss Minister: UNRWA Is Part of the Problem in the Middle East (Swiss Info via Daily Alert)
May 31, 2019 United Nations aid work for Palestinian refugees is a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East, hindering the integration of Palestinians who have lived in Jordan and Lebanon for years, according to Swiss Foreign Affairs Minister Ignazio Cassis. So long as Palestinians live in refugee camps, they can dream of returning […]
Read More →UNRWA: A Palestinian “Refugee” Speaks out (Halawa Initiative via Youtube)
Sept. 19, 2016 Click here for 5 min. video or, click here for same video, with brief article by Avi Abelow, from Israel Unwired
Read More →Why, exactly, does @UNRWA exist in Jordan again? No one seems to know. (EoZ)
Apr. 15, 2019 There are over 2.2 million Palestinians getting services from UNRWA in Jordan, about 45% of the total number of people that get UNRWA aid. The vast majority of “refugees” in UNRWA are not refugees by any definition, but in Jordan the disconnect is worse – since nearly all of them are citizens […]
Read More →Palestinians Share Responsibility for Jewish Refugees, Too, by Lyn Julius (JNS via Algemeiner)
Mar. 25, 2019 Not long ago, I heard emeritus professor of Tel Aviv University Asher Susser give a talk on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He came to the following conclusion: The conflict is insoluble because the Palestinians and Israelis have two irreconcilable narratives. And the Palestinians will never give up their so-called ”right of return.” Yet […]
Read More →The Failure of Palestinian Nationalism – Dr. Alex Joffe (BESA via Daily Alert)
Mar. 13, 2019 The Failure of Palestinian Nationalism – Dr. Alex Joffe (BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) The February 2019 Warsaw Summit, which saw the Israeli PM take his seat beside Arab leaders, was a turning point that signaled the ebbing fortunes of the Palestinian cause. The continuing inability of the Palestinian Authority to build […]
Read More →US Refuses to Expose Anti-Israel Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks, by David Bedein (Center for Near East Policy Research)
Jan. 5, 2019 Why won’t the U.S. government release the whole truth about Palestinian textbooks’ rampant incitement, martyr worship, and refusal to accept Israel’s existence? The think tank that I run, the Center for Near East Policy Research, has completed a four-year research activity, in which all 364 school books for grades 1-12 that were […]
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