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NPR spins Rawabi story against Israel
From NPR:Palestinian investor Bashar Masri is building an entirely new city in the West Bank. It's a huge investment, with 5,000 new homes for tens of thousands of families. And, in the...
View Article03/17 Links Pt2: Col. Kemp: Protesters disown their university values;...
From Ian:NGO Monitor: University of Southampton’s Symposium on Israel’s Right to Exist: Speaker Profiles and NGO ConnectionsThe University of Southampton will hold a three-day quasi-academic...
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Israeli elections open thread
It's all anyone is talking about anyway....By the way, look how prescient Slate was four days ago!UPDATE: With 90% of the votes counted, the exit polls predicting a tie between Likud and ZU seem to...
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Abbas livid that Qatari ambassador praised Israel, insulted PA on Gaza...
Yesterday I was the first (and still only) to report in English that the president of the Qatari National Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip and their ambassador to Gaza) Mohammed...
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Report: Hamas embroiled in pedophile mosque scandal
According to Al Bawabh News, Hamas is trying to hush up a major sex scandal involving young boys in a Gaza mosque.A prominent Hamas member is accused of engaging in sex acts with young boys after...
View ArticleGangs of haters intimidating Swedish store-owners to drop Israeli products
From Sweden's"Isolate Israel" BDS site:Join Malmö’s Apartheid Inspectors when they visit stores and companies around Malmö to investigate dangerous levels of apartheid-supporting products! Support the...
View Article03/18 Links Pt1: Election Roundup; Dershowitz: Pres. is not Commander in...
From Ian:Netanyahu scores crushing victory in Israeli electionsPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party was the clear winner in Tuesday’s election, a near-final tally showed early Wednesday...
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UN Security Council obsession with "Palestine," 2014
Here are the number of meetings by the UNSC on Middle East/North Africa topics in 2014.To give some context, in 2014 there were some 76,000 killed in Syria, 17,000 in Iraq and 7600 in Afghanistan.(h/t...
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Gaza Wins Bid To Host 2032 Olympics (PreOccupied Territory)
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page.Gaza City, March 18 - The International Olympic Committee announced today (Wednesday) that the winning...
View Article03/18 Links Pt2: Chloe Valdary: Peace, the Grand Delusion of the Jews;...
From Ian:Chloe Valdary: Peace, the Grand Delusion of the JewsIn 2015, the Jewish community is at a crossroads. Jews are being mowed down in the streets of Europe. Students are being intimidated on...
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One of those racist, right wing Bibi voters
Seen on the Arabic FajerTV Facebook page.Some Arabs did vote for right wing, and even religious, parties.While the Arab list received over 92% of the vote in Nazareth, the remainder of the votes went...
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Video: Hebron Arabs ransack an Israeli truck
On Monday, Arabs in Hebron broke into an Israeli delivery truck and destroyed all the packages within, tossing them onto the street to the wild cheers of the crowd.From FajerTV:The products seems to...
View ArticleHow cute: PLO says Israeli elections "destroy chance for peace"
Ma'an's headline says "PLO: Israel election results 'destroy chance for peace'".Let's pay a short visit to Palestinian Media Watch and see how Fatah and PLO officials have been promoting peace...
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The human interest story that isn't interesting enough for the mainstream media
Deebo at Israellycool looks at some interesting statistics from the Israeli elections.One of the facts reported is that the most pro-Likud town in Israel is the village of All Naim, where 77% voted...
View Article03/19 Links Pt1: Dershowitz: The Role of the PA in Israel's Election Results;...
From Ian:Alan Dershowitz: The Role of the Palestinian Authority in Israel's Election ResultsThose around the world who are upset with Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu electoral victory over the...
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The morning after another surprise (Vic Rosenthal)
Vic Rosenthal's weekly column:It’s the Morning After in Israel, and it’s a beautiful day for several reasons.The weather is great. And although pre-election polls showed Yitzhak (Buji) Herzog’s...
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Malaysian state mandates sharia law including amputations and stoning
From Al Arabiya:A Malaysian state governed by an opposition Muslim party passed a law on Thursday mandating tough Islamic criminal punishments, a move that threatens to break up a fractious opposition...
View Article03/19 Links Pt2: Divest from the PA!; White House chief of staff to headline...
From Ian:White House chief of staff to headline J Street conferenceDenis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, will headline the annual J Street conference, at a time of US-Israel tensions over...
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Short review of Melanie Phillips talk
Tonight I went to hear Melanie Phillips speak in Manhattan.I spoke to her briefly beforehand. I was hoping to interview her but she said she doesn't like being interviewed. Oh, well.Her speech topic...
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The truth starts to come out about Gaza incidents. Part 1: Al Bakri family home
Yesterday, Israel's Military Advocate General came out with a new report (part 3) describing the circumstances of several incidents from Operation Protective Edge that had been described as "war...
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