Hamas Has Lost Its Mojo in Gaza, by Dexter Van Zile (Algemeiner)
Dec. 29, 2019 Talk about being obtuse. The folks at The Palestine Chronicle, a pro-Hamas propaganda outfit operating as a non-profit organization here in the US, is trying to put the best possible spin on the collapse of the “Great March of Return” protests that have petered out after almost two years of failure. “It’s still […]
Read More →Palestinian man convicted of selling land to Israeli Jews dies in PA custody, by Adam Rasgon (TOI)
Dec. 22, 2019 PA police say man died of an unspecified illness after two-week hospitalization; deceased had been held since 2012 Click here for full article
Read More →What I Did As An IDF Soldier to Palestinians, by Hananya Naftali (Youtube)
Dec. 21, 2019 This is what I did to Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza when I was an IDF soldier. It’s time to tell you the truth and break the silence. Click here for 3 min. video by Hananya Naftali, a Christian Israeli re: 2014 Gaza war
Read More →Palestinian government institution DENOUNCES equal rights for women and abortion (EoZ)
Dec. 20, 2019 The Supreme Fatwa Council, the decision making body of the Palestinian Fatwa House which was created by Yasir Arafat as an official Palestinian institution in 1994, has announced that it does not accept the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Council said that it cannot accept any […]
Read More →Deconstructing the Nakba Myth: The Palestinian Aggressors Became the Victims – Prof. Shmuel Trigano (JCPA via Daily Alert)
Dec. 13, 2019 Deconstructing the Nakba Myth: The Palestinian Aggressors Became the Victims – Prof. Shmuel TriganoNakba Day (lit. “Day of Catastrophe”) has become the most actively performed ritual of the Palestinian myth. Hidden behind the exodus of the Arab population of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 war, which this ritual commemorates, is the war of […]
Read More →Sovereignty over Jordan Valley Is Crucial to Israel’s Survival – Brig.-Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Dec. 9, 2019 Sovereignty over Jordan Valley Is Crucial to Israel’s Survival – Brig.-Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi (Jerusalem Post) The first plan dealing with the Jordan Valley was drafted immediately after the 1967 Six-Day War by former Labor party minister Yigal Allon and is known as the “Allon Plan.” The broad aim of the plan was […]
Read More →FROM ISRAEL: “IT DOESN’T EXIST!!”, by Arlene Kushner (ArlenefromIsrael)
Dec. 8, 2019 On Friday, the US House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution supporting the “two state solution.” This caused considerable consternation among supporters of Israel. But, in fact, it is not terribly surprising: The House is controlled by the Democrats. And they are responding to the very appropriate and long-overdue November 18 […]
Read More →Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’, by Mitchell Bard (Algemeiner)
Dec. 5, 2019 I have written before about the importance of semantics in the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how frustrated many people are about losing various battles over nomenclature, such as references to the disputed territories as “occupied,” and “Judea and Samaria” as the West Bank. An arguably more important semantic battle regarding […]
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