Trump is keeping the promise made at San Remo in 1920. Why?, by Eugene Kontorovich (J. Post)
Jan. 4, 2020 Why the conclusions of a 1978 US State Department memorandum have been repudiated. A full century after the international community met in Paris and San Remo to establish a post-imperial world order founded on independent nation states, the international community has, under the leadership of US President Donald Trump, begun to fully […]
Read More →THE EU BATTLES ISRAEL IN AREA C, by Hillel Frisch (J. Post)
Aug. 16, 2019 Like many offensives in history, the EU’s decision to battle Israel over control of Area C in Judea and Samaria was done clandestinely. Click here for full article
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 →10 toxic terms that pro-Israel advocates must fight, by LEE BENDER AND JEROME R. VERLIN (JNS)
Jan. 23, 2019 The phrases, descriptions and definitions that need to be explained, and the truth that needs to be repeated (over and over again). Mainstream Western media coverage of Israel is laced with expressions intentionally crafted to delegitimize the Jewish state. By forfeiting this language, we forfeit our history. The good news is that […]
Read More →Debunking 25 left-wing and Arab myths from a left-wing Arab perspective, by Fred Maroun (TOI)
Apr. 24. 2018 Left-wing and Arab enemies of Israel make a number of accusations that they repeat as if they were facts. Here I take apart those myths from a left-wing Arab perspective. I summarize the facts, but I include many links to other articles that provide further background. Some of the articles referenced are […]
Read More →From Israel: It’s in the Air! by Arlene Kushner
Jan. 1, 2018 I don’t celebrate the secular new year, but I imagine that many, if not most, of my readers do. And so, I am delighted to wish one and all a good year. ~~~~~~~~~~ What I sense in the air is not a fireworks display, but a sense of progress: A movement in […]
Read More →REFLECTING ON THE ‘O’ WORD: THE MANY SIDES OF THE ‘OCCUPATION’, by Ron Csillag (CJN)
Sept. 25, 2017 …”As for the word occupation, “it’s not intended to indicate who’s entitled to sovereignty subsequently. Occupied is an interim status until there’s a final determination.” Gauthier sees “a notion today that has been marketed and sold convincingly by the Palestinians and their Arab friends and others at the UN that occupied territory […]
Read More →Settlers/settlements in Judea & Samaria (HonestReporting)
Sept. 19, 2017 The Washington Institute is compiling a web site tracking every Israeli settlement in the West Bank, including satellite imagery and population statistics. While the information is not yet completely posted, some interesting details have already come to light: Of the some 600,000 settlers who live outside Israel’s internationally recognized borders (including in parts of Jerusalem), just […]
Read More →‘Jewish communities will never be uprooted again,’ PM vows, by Efrat Forsher (Israel Hayom)
Aug. 29, 2017 “Samaria is a strategic asset of the State of Israel, and the key to our future,” PM Benjamin Netanyahu says at an event marking 50 years to area’s resettlement • No government has done more to promote the settlement enterprise, Netanyahu says. Click here for full article
Read More →Huge Own Goal As Israel Haters Release Video of “Palestine” Maps (Quds News Network via EoZ)
Aug. 16, 2017 Huge Own Goal As Israel Haters Release Video of “Palestine” Maps Quds News Network has come out with the following video, to prove that “Palestine” existed. I have to thank them for this. (h/t NormanF) Click here for 3 min. video
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