62 years before Kerry, another State Department official blamed Israel for...
JNS has an interesting article detailing ten failed Arab-Israeli peace plans that America was partially or fully behind.I had never heard of the first of them.JTA, April 12, 1954, reports what sounds a...
View Article01/10 Links Pt2: PMW to FIFA Give Jibril Rajoub a Red Card; From Arab...
From Ian:PMW: Incriminating PMW Report calls on FIFA to show Jibril Rajoub the red cardAt the FIFA council meeting in Zurich this week, the world football's governing body is expected to come to a...
View ArticleMust-see video by Ami Horowitz on the West Bank
This is better than I expected, and I expect a lot from Ami.I have not once heard that Palestinians throw rocks at other Palestinians trying to cross into Israel.This is not the kind of oppression...
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Head of "pro-Israel" J-Street strategizes with Israel's antisemitic enemies
Ma'an reports that J-Street's Jeremy Ben Ami met with PLO representative to the US Maen Areikat.The article says they discussed "political developments in the American arena with the imminent...
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Jerusalem embassy threats - media turning fake news into reality
US consulate in JerusalemThe Washington Post reports:Close U.S. allies in the Middle East have warned that moving the embassy might look easy but would be deeply reckless, like painting a big bull’s...
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How Israel defeated the "knife intifada"
Ehud Yaari of Israel's Channel 2 has a long and fascinating account of the strategies Israel used to bring down the level of violence from Palestinians in the territories to the levels of before...
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01/11 Links Pt1: Once again, Palestinians never miss a chance to foster...
From Ian:PMW: PA: Terrorist who killed four in truck ramming attack died for AllahOn Sunday, a Palestinian terrorist drove his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers participating in an education study...
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Roger Waters Announces Concerts In Tel Aviv, Jerusalem (Satire from...
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page.Roger Waters Announces Concerts In Tel Aviv, JerusalemCredit: Alterna2 via Wikimedia CommonsNew York, January...
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Jews Gonna Build (Judean Rose)
How's this for a stunner? According to the latest Peace Index,* a poll of Israeli attitudes put out by the Israel Democracy Institute(IDI) and Tel Aviv University (TAU), the majority of Israelis (57%)...
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01/11 Links Pt2: Al-Jazeera Over-Eggs Israeli Conspiracy Sting
From Ian:Guido Fawkes: Al-Jazeera Over-Eggs Israeli Conspiracy StingGuido thought the Al-Jazeera sting exposing Israeli ‘diplomat’ Shai Masot and Rob Halfon aide Maria Strizzolo discussing their...
View ArticleYemen site: "Protocols" are a myth but Iranians are taking a page from them
This is progress, of sorts.Yemeni news site Tehama Press has an interesting op-ed:Experience has proven that the Iranian regime does not seek to make peace with its Arab neighbors, but its main concern...
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What's the difference between Fatah and Hamas terrorists again?
In 2007, Mahmoud Abbas officially announced that all armed groups outside official PA security forces were illegal and that the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades were dismantled.It's been nearly ten years, and...
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Knesset member calls on Israeli Arabs to prioritize Palestinian cause over...
What other democracy would tolerate a traitor in its own government?From MEMRI:On November 20, 2016, Ayman 'Odeh, chair of the Joint List, an alliance of Arab-dominated parties in the Israeli Knesset,...
View Article19 years of ethnic cleansing, 50 years ago (Zvi)
A guest post from Zvi:In 1948, the Arab Legion ethnically cleansed - illegally - the millennia-old Jewish Quarterof eastern Jerusalem, as well as other parts of the "old city." The Jordanians,...
View Article01/12 Links Pt1: Col Kemp: Call off the Paris conference; The UN Is Beyond...
From Ian:Col Kemp: Call off the Paris conferenceThe planned Paris conference was born out of good will, but it comes at a very bad moment. On the one hand, Resolution 2334, recently adopted by the...
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To whom does the land belong? (Vic Rosenthal)
Vic Rosenthal's Weekly ColumnTo whom does the land belong?All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political...
View ArticleUNHRC accidentally strengthens Israel's legal claim to the territories
The UN Human Rights Council issued a report in 2013, the "Report of the independent international factfinding mission to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political,...
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01/12 Links Pt2: Chloé Valdary: Where Israel Advocacy Fails, and How It Can...
From Ian:Chloé Valdary: Where Israel Advocacy Fails, and How It Can SucceedThis past November, the student newspaper at McGill University in Montreal responded to accusations that it had been providing...
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Fisking the lies behind the Paris "Peace" Conference
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault writes in Haaretz his justifications for why a peace conference must be held now.The Middle East peace process cannot wait, for two main reasons.First and...
View ArticleShocker: Palestinians don't think "terror" section of UNSC 2334 applies to them
One of the main justifications given by the US for why it abstained on UNSC resolution 2334 rather than vote against it was because the language was supposedly not as biased against Israel.Here is the...
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