The One Thing No Israeli Wants to Discuss, by Matti Friedman (NYT)
Sept. 9, 2019 The decisive factor in next week’s election — and the reason for Benjamin Netanyahu’s durability — is a repressed memory. JERUSALEM — When trying to understand Israel’s election on Sept. 17, the second in the space of six months, you can easily get lost in the details — corruption charges, coalition wrangling, bickering between left and right. […]
Read More →Israel to Help Nigeria Become a Food Superpower – Chris Ochayi (Vanguard-Nigeria, via Daily Alert)
Sept. 6, 2019 Israel to Help Nigeria Become a Food Superpower – Chris Ochayi Israeli authorities Monday announced that they will partner with the Federal Government of Nigeria to address numerous insecurity challenges currently confronting the country, especially to end the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East zone. Professor Joseph Shevel of the Galilee International […]
Read More →U.S. Ambassador Supports “Extended Autonomy” for Palestinians (CNN via Daily Alert)
July 31, 2019 U.S. Ambassador Supports “Extended Autonomy” for Palestinians U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview on Tuesday: “We believe in Palestinian autonomy. We believe in Palestinian civilian self-governance. We believe that that autonomy should be extended up until the point where it interferes with Israeli security.” “We’ve made the […]
Read More →UK Minister Orders Universities to Crack Down on Anti-Semites – Eleanor Harding (Daily Mail-UK via Daily Alert)
May 24, 2019 UK Minister Orders Universities to Crack Down on Anti-Semites – Eleanor Harding (Daily Mail-UK) UK higher education minister Chris Skidmore said Jewish societies have to pay up to 2,000 pounds for security at events because they are often gate-crashed by thugs. “It is unacceptable to oblige certain groups of students to incur additional […]
Read More →The Duplicitous Double Standard of the United Nations Regarding the Golan Heights, by Sarah N. Stern (EMET – Voice of Truth)
Mar. 29, 2019 There are 194 nations in the world. Out of those, precisely 193 acquired their territory through the use of military force. That is how borders have traditionally been drawn. Most of these campaigns were offensive. I have asked many military experts, historians and scholars about this, and they have, to a person, […]
Read More →The Palestinians Don’t Have “a Veto on Progress” – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman interviewed by Lahav Harkov (Washington Examiner via Daily Alert)
Mar. 14, 2019 The Palestinians Don’t Have “a Veto on Progress” – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman interviewed by Lahav Harkov (Washington Examiner) Referring to the Trump administration’s peace plan, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman explained, “There ought to be a means to get at least closer to a point where the Palestinians have […]
Read More →A Corbyn Government Would Be a Terrorist Threat to the Western World By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld
A Corbyn Government Would Be a Terrorist Threat to the Western World By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, Oct. 19, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The intense public discussion on anti-Semitism in the UK Labour party has almost entirely overshadowed the problem of the huge risk a Corbyn-led government would represent to the Western world. Corbyn, a terrorist sympathizer, […]
Read More →Israel Ties Warming with Central Asian Countries – Ariel Ben Solomon (J. Post via Daily Alert)
Oct. 19, 2018 Israel Ties Warming with Central Asian Countries – Ariel Ben Solomon The friendly relations between Israel and Central Asian countries go back to WWII when the then-Soviet republics including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan hosted an estimated two million refugees from the Nazi German invasion of the USSR – more than half of them Jews. […]
Read More →Jihadism, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the “Frontier States”, By Dr. Spyridon N. Litsas (BESA)
Oct. 8, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The continuing radicalization of Islam, which presents a fundamental security challenge for the western world, gives new dimension to the term ”frontier state.” Greece and Israel have a common strategic role under this label as they are both willing and able to safeguard western interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, a […]
Read More →It isn’t the “occupation,” stupid – it’s the terror (EoZ)
Sept. 21, 2018 Every day, articles are written about the horrors of the “occupation.” Not only popular articles, but scientific and scholarly papers as well. And in nearly all of them, they fundamentally misunderstand the basics of history. A case in point: In 2016 a research article called “Attitudes of Palestinian medical students on the geopolitical barriers […]
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