01/07 Links Pt2: PA Arab: Jordanian army told us to leave in 1948 War, Stones...
From Ian:Judea Pearl: How not to fight an anti-Israel boycottWhat ASA members should be most concerned about is their professional reputation, having let their organization be hijacked by the rhetoric...
View ArticleLebanon treating Palestinian Syrians like dirt, no one cares
From IPS:Over the past year more than 50,000 Palestinian refugees have fled violence, chaos and destitution in Syria to seek sanctuary in Lebanon. The vast majority have found themselves living in dire...
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Israeli rifle wins awards - and also innovates in ammo
From Ammoland:IWI US, Inc. a subsidiary of Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) Ltd., announces the TAVOR SAR has received the 2014 Golden Bullseye Award for American Rifleman Rifle of the Year.The...
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Work accident! But you wouldn't know it from Arab media... (plus - clan clash)
Ma'an "reports:"Man killed by Israeli strike east of Gaza CityA man was killed on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli strike targeted the al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood in Gaza City, medical...
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Guardian writer blames Czech diplomat's death on Israel
This took longer than I thought. But it didn't come from an Arab journalist but from a freelancer who has written for The Guardian and The TelegraphFrom Colin Randall, writing in The National (UAE) on...
View Article01/08 Links Pt1: The Middle East at the Beginning of 2014, When is Incitement...
From Ian:Barry Rubin: The Middle East at the Beginning of 2014The Egypt-Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas conflicts, the Syrian civil war, the conflict between the Shi'a and Sunni blocs (the latter including...
View ArticleThe PLO acknowledges the Jewish "right of return"
When the Palestine Papers were released by The Guardian and Al Jazeera in 2011, only stories that fit the narratives of those papers were published. I went through them at the time and found many...
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Latest Rafah crossing news that "human rights" organizations ignore
The Rafah crossing is open today, after 12 days of being closed.Even during the days that it is open, very few people have been allowed to cross.Human rights organizations are almost completely...
View Article01/08 Links Pt2: This barrier stops fascists, Comparing Islamists and radical...
From Ian:This barrier stops fascists: A response to Bethlehem UnwrappedSome of you may be thinking, well, the Israelis would say the barrier works wouldn’t they? OK, so what do the Palestinian...
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Tunnel closings cause Israeli goods to disappear from Egyptian markets!
The tunnel trade between Egypt and Gaza was two-way.Marketplace in El ArishBut Gazans weren't exporting their own goods to Egypt - they were exporting Israeli products. You know, the ones that were...
View ArticleVideo about Israeli Christians joining the IDF
With English subtitles:(h/t Yoel, Sarit)
View ArticleComplete list of goods that Israel does not export into Gaza
This is the official list of items that Israel does not allow to be exported into Gaza.The second list is of goods that can be exported for specific NGO projects, they require more paperwork.Missile...
View ArticleReport: Israel planning gas pipeline into Jordan
From Bloomberg:Israel, seeking to tap recent natural-gas finds for export, plans to build a pipeline from the Dead Sea to the Jordanian border to supply its neighbor, two people with knowledge of the...
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Palestinian Arabs using negotiations to impose a solution, no desire to end...
JCPA has a very good analysis of how Israelis and Palestinian Arabs are viewing the current negotiations. Here is an excerpt, but the entire thing is a must-read:The question, though, is whether the...
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Peacenik Israelis meet rock-throwing reality in Ramallah (updated)
There has been a bizarre private initiative to have ordinary Arabs and Israelis get together and see if they could agree to a peace plan.From a press release:The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships...
View Article01/09 Links Pt1: Unilateral Palestinian statehood - threat or ‘big bluff’?,...
From Ian:Why do Leftists Attack the Only Liberal Country in the Middle East?What is the most rightist doctrine in the world today? It has to be radical Islam. Islamists don’t allow women to go out of...
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Iran's Khamenei complains about "Satan's" enmity towards Iran
The Supreme Leader comedy show keeps adding new material.Nuclear negotiations with major powers had revealed U.S. “enmity” towards Iran, the Islamic republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
View ArticleTurkey wants to monitor and censor Internet use
From Hurriyet Daily News:A draft bill will permit authorities to limit access to the Internet and monitor all actions by individuals online and keep such records for two years, daily Hürriyet has...
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01/09 Links Pt2: Israel Palestine Who’s Indigenous?, Tamar Gas Field Worth...
From Ian:Israelly Cool: Israel Palestine Who’s Indigenous?Now you might ask, why is this important? It is important to indigenous people because we cannot allow the argument that conquerors can become...
View ArticleIsraeli Arabs really don't want to live in "Palestine" (video)
From Israel's Channel 10; translation by Yoel:
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