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 […]
Read More →Bethlehem after Oslo: Terror Spiked in Israel’s Absence – Nadav Shragai (JCPA via Daily Alert)
Oct. 24, 2018 Bethlehem after Oslo: Terror Spiked in Israel’s Absence – Nadav Shragai Bethlehem is only several hundred meters from southern Jerusalem. On Dec. 21, 1995, after the Oslo Peace Accords, Israel officially handed Bethlehem over to Palestinian rule. When the Palestinians had exclusive responsibility for security in Bethlehem, Palestinian snipers sat on the rooftops […]
Read More →Hamas-Israel Ceasefire Talks Show Peace Impossible, by Caroline Glick (Breitbart)
Aug. 20, 2018 The ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Hamas terror group’s regime in Gaza point to a central truth about the nature of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Before anyone speaks any more about a possible “deal of the century,” or a “two-state solution,” it is imperative that the implications of those talks […]
Read More →Geography Now! ISRAEL (Youtube)
Geography Now! ISRAEL Sept. 20, 2017 Well. This is it. North Korea is going to be a breeze after this. I talked to a lot of Israeli and Palestinian Geograpeeps for help with this video and I tried my best to cover it in a well-rounded format that addresses the controversy head on from […]
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