Palestinian Authority lying statistics
I had missed this from last month:The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday it has recorded a population of 12.1 million people, of whom 4.6 million live in the occupied territories and...
View Article06/05 Links Pt1: New government’s war on BDS; EU-Funded NGOs Behind the...
From Ian:Caroline Glick: The new government’s war on BDS Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government is less than a month old, but it’s already apparent that it is different from its...
View ArticleTurns out parts of Gaza's Shujaiyeh ARE being rebuilt - underground
From AFP:A member of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas died Friday when a smuggling tunnel collapsed in the Gaza Strip near the Israeli border, Hamas and medical sources...
View ArticleThis week's Shujaiyeh rubble photos
I wrote earlier this week that Gaza's Shujaiyeh neighborhood is being kept filled with rubble - and its residents kept homeless - because of the propaganda value of having foreign dignitaries and...
View Article06/05 Links Pt2: When will the free world realize Churchill was right?; Rabbi...
From Ian:Mordechai Kedar: It's not about Soccer, Stupid. It's about Israel's SurvivalLet's tell the truth: the Palestine Liberation Organizaion established in June 2, 1964, three years before the...
View Article06/06 Links: Attorneys at War; Saban calls Orange liars, joins with Adelson...
From Ian:Attorneys at War Israel’s fight with Hamas is not just an example of classic asymmetric warfare, it’s also just plain nasty. Why? Hamas may be a nonstate actor but its militants have access to...
View ArticleIran says that they can "snap back" on nuke deal as well
From AFP:A top Iranian official, in an unusual declaration Saturday, said there remains no trust between Tehran and world powers and either side could yet abandon a nuclear deal after signing.In...
View ArticleLaws don't matter for the UN: vehicles park in handicap spaces, sidewalks in...
NRG reports that the UNDOF (United Nations Disengagement Observer Force) is irritating the people of Katzrin because of its blatant disregard for local laws.UNDOF has relocated from Damascus, Syria to...
View Article"Rabbi Obama" Threatens Israel (Mike Lumish)
Let's get something straight, shall we? Barack Obama, whatever else anyone might wish to say about the man, is not Jewish.Obama is not Jewish, nor is he Muslim, nor is he Rosicrucian, nor Buddhist,...
View Article06/07 Links: Netanyahu chides world over silence after Gaza rockets; UNRWA’s...
From Ian:JCPA: Anti-Semitism is the Motivation for the BDS Campaign Whose Goal is to Delegitimize IsraelIsrael is rightly alarmed at the escalating scale of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS)...
View ArticleTime's 1967 essay way too pro-Israel to be written today
Here is the entire essay by Time magazine written in the aftermath of the Six Day War. While I disagree with some points, what is remarkable is that practically everything they wrote then applies...
View ArticleJ-Street pretends to care about Israel advocacy on campus
I received this email from J-Street's Jeremy Ben Ami:Sheldon Adelson, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Christians United For Israel -- hardly a group representative of the American Jewish community -- spent...
View ArticleEgyptian actress worried Jewish role might make people think she is pro-Israel
I've mentioned that a new Egyptian Ramadan TV series about Egyptian Jews in the 1950s, called "Jewish Quarter," is quite sympathetic to Egypt's vanished Jewish community.The Times of Israel had a more...
View ArticleEveryone hates Palestinian Arabs when there are no Jews around
An eye-opening report from the UN's IRIN news site, May 25:Until November, it is alleged that Jordan routinely deported Syrian refugees who had broken the law back to Syria... Most Syrians are now...
View ArticleUAE to pay terrorist families in Gaza - thanks to Abbas' rival
Mohammed Dahlan, former Fatah strongman in Gaza and bitter rival of Mahmoud Abbas who is living in exile in Abu Dhabi, has announced that the UAE will pay the families of "martyrs" of Gaza from last...
View Article06/08 Links Pt1: The case for Israel is rooted in more than security; '67 The...
From Ian:The case for Israel is rooted in more than securityNoses went out of joint and knickers got in a twist when Israel’s new deputy foreign minister delivered her inaugural speech to the Jewish...
View ArticleHamas busts black market cement ring. Hmmm.
Hamas' Felesteen reports that the Hamas government in Gaza has busted an illegal black-market cement operation. They pretended that they did this for the most civic of reasons, to stop price...
View ArticleZivotofsky case reveals bizarre US policy towards Jerusalem
From JPost:In a major blow to a 13-year-old effort to bolster Jerusalem's status under American law as an undisputed part of Israel, the US Supreme Court on Monday struck down as unconstitutional a...
View Article06/08 Links Pt2: Anti-Semites Using Guise of 'Human Rights'; BBC Cut Jews...
From Ian:Rabbi Sacks: Anti-Semites Using Guise of 'Human Rights'Former UK Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spoke on Monday about anti-Semitism, and warned that not only is the volatile trend which is...
View ArticleEgypt kidnapped and paraded Jews as "POWs" during Six Day War
A maddening article at Point of No Return:During the first three days of the Six Day War, the Egyptian media claimed victory, and Egyptians did not know their army was crushed. Everyone was certain...
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