The Difference between “Retaining” and “Annexing” Territory – Herb Keinon (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Jun. 12, 2019 The Difference between “Retaining” and “Annexing” Territory – Herb Keinon In his interview on Saturday with the New York Times, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was quoted as saying, “Under certain circumstances, I think Israel has the right to retain some, but unlikely all, of the West Bank.” Friedman never uttered the word “annex,” […]
Read More →No Arab Demographic Time Bomb – Amb. Yoram Ettinger (Jewish Political Studies Review/JCPA via Daily Alert)
Jun. 7, 2019 No Arab Demographic Time Bomb – Amb. Yoram Ettinger (Jewish Political Studies Review) Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Jewish state is not facing an Arab demographic time bomb. In 2018 there were 1.85 million Arabs in the West Bank (not 3 million as claimed by the Palestinians), 1.6 million Israeli Muslim Arabs, 130,000 […]
Read More →Palestinian Businessman Launches New Party – Khaled Abu Toameh (J. Post via Daily Alert)
May 10, 2019 Palestinian Businessman Launches New Party – Khaled Abu Toameh Ashraf Jabari, 45, a Palestinian businessman from Hebron, announced over the weekend the establishment of the Reform and Development Party. Jabari, who belongs to a prominent clan in Hebron and previously worked for the PA security forces, said, “We just want to focus on […]
Read More →So Why Can’t the Palestinians Vote? BY PESACH BENSON (HonestReporting)
JANUARY 1, 2019, “It’s Israel’s fault the Palestinians can’t vote.” That’s an accusation we often hear, especially when Israel pivots to election campaign mode. Unfortunately, the Palestinians are disenfranchised. But not by Israel. The Palestinians have been disenfranchised by their own feuding leaders in Fatah and Hamas. A look at the history shows Egypt and Jordan bear […]
Read More →The Invention of ‘Palestinians’ by Jerold Auerbach
Feb. 14, 2019 Millennia before Palestinians appeared on the world stage following the Six-Day War, the “West Bank” was already known as Judea and Samaria. “Palestine” dates from the League of Nations Mandate (1923) that granted England governing power over the land, including Trans-Jordan, that was previously controlled by the defeated Ottoman Empire. The Mandate […]
Read More →The Palestinian Civil War By Dr. Mordechai Kedar (INN via BreakingIsraelNews)
Jan. 25, 2019 The tension between the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas Organization in Gaza is approaching the boiling point, as a result of several factors: The dire economic situation in Gaza, the unbridgeable chasm between Hamas and Fatah’s outlook, a stalemate in Israel-PLO negotiations, the postponement of any attempts at progress between Israel and […]
Read More →Framing the Narrative: Matti Friedman on the Israel Story, by Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose via EoZ)
Nov. 27, 2018 You have to admire Matti Friedman. He bucked the entrenched wisdom to expose the unfairness (here and here) of the media’s excessive focus on Israel by, for instance, the Associated Press. And he did so as a liberal when being liberal, for the most part, means being down on Israel. In other words, Friedman […]
Read More →Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara, Tibet — The ‘Occupied Territories’ Still Available on Airbnb, by Ben Cohen
Nov. 20, 2018 Travelers looking for a vacation on the wrong side of an internationally-recognized “Green Line” needn’t fret now that global rentals agency Airbnb is boycotting properties in Israeli communities in the West Bank — they can use Airbnb’s services in the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” instead. A Tuesday morning search of Airbnb’s listings for […]
Read More →Israel Lashes Out at Airbnb after Company Pulls Listings of West Bank Home Rentals, by Glenn Fleishman (Fortune via Daily Alert) & a second related article by NGO Monitor (via Daily Alert)
Nov. 20, 2018 Israel Lashes Out at Airbnb after Company Pulls Listings of West Bank Home Rentals – Glenn Fleishman Airbnb announced on Monday it will remove all listings by Jews in the West Bank, an Israeli-controlled disputed territory. In response, Israel said it would act to restrict Airbnb in the country, and encouraged affected Airbnb […]
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