Gaza to run out of free fuel again, expect Israel to be blamed
Ma'an reported yesterday:The last shipment of Qatar-donated diesel -- used to fuel the Gaza Strip's sole power plant -- is expected to run out within four or five days, a Palestinian official said...
View Article03/11 Links Pt1: Why Abbas Will (Again) Say No; 66% of Israeli Jews don't...
From Ian:Khaled Abu Toameh: Why Abbas Will (Again) Say NoNow Abbas is going to mislead Obama into thinking that he is coming to meet with him not only as the "rightful" leader of the Palestinians but...
View ArticleIntroducing the Open Muslim Students Association
Since Purim is coming up....As a result of the Open Hillel initiative, where the Jewish student groups throughout North America will invite anti-Israel speakers to offer talks in the name of open...
View ArticleBig work accident!
From Ma'an:Four People were killed and six others suffered injuries after an explosion in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, a medical official said. Ashraf al-Qidra said that Mohammad Tayseer...
View Article03/11 Links Pt2: 3rd Anniversary of the Fogel Family Massacre; More criticism...
From Ian:Three Years Later: Fogel Family Massacre Commemorated in ItamarThe three-year Hebrew anniversary of the infamous Fogel family massacre, which took place in the West Bank town of Itamar, was...
View ArticleMajor Sephardic rabbi permits Jews ascending to Temple Mount
Rabbi Meir Mazuz, a major Sephardic leader, has issued a ruling that under certain circumstance Jews would be allowed to visit the Temple Mount.He is the first major rabbi from outside the...
View ArticleNortheastern U suspends anti-Israel group
From Max Blumenthal, writing in one of the few media outlets that still bother to publish him, Mondoweiss:On March 7, members of Northeastern University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) were...
View ArticleGaza rockets still being shot, but most are landing in Gaza
JPost reports:A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip exploded in an open area in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council on Tuesday night.The projectile triggered a Color Red rocket alert across the area,...
View ArticleAbbas stuns Arab and Jewish audiences
(Another Purim post.)PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas stunned the Fatah Revolutionary Council on Wednesday, telling the group that he is against armed resistance and has no intention to enforce the "right of...
View Article03/12 Links Pt1: The Apartheid Canard; Iran ‘Our hands are on the trigger’ to...
From Ian:Obama, Tibi and the Apartheid CanardThen there are all the other Arabs in prominent positions – college presidents, hospital directors, ambassadors, army officers, Supreme Court justices and...
View ArticleThe shortlist of candidates to become Abbas' vice president
Al Quds al Arabi (via PalToday) reports that the Fatah Revolutionary Committee will decide on a vice president for Mahmoud Abbas by the end of its current session.According to the article, here is the...
View ArticleIslamic Jihad pretends Manhattan explosion is from their rockets
Islamic Jihad's Palestine Today website is covering the rocket barrage being sent by that group to Israel. Of course, they are monitoring Israeli TV and websites to grab photos of any damage their...
View ArticleMan shot dead at Gaza wedding
From PCHR:At approximately 14:00 on Thursday, 06 March 2014, Mos’aad Mousa Abu Samrah (22) from Deir al-Balah was shot in the neck when an armed person fired in celebration of one of his relatives’...
View Article03/12 Links Pt2: The Perils of Parachute journalism in the Middle East;...
From Ian:Why Shouldn’t We Defund the Boycotters?Defunding those who aid boycotts is both legal and morally correct.Both the federal government and states routinely put all sorts of conditions on any...
View ArticleTranscript of David Cameron's speech in the Knesset
Here is the transcript for the speech that David Cameron, UK Prime Minister, gave in the Knesset on Wednesday. So far I haven't been able to locate a full video, but here is a small part:Shalom...
View ArticleTerror rocket update: Iran's fingerprints, Hamas' ambivalence, Fatah's...
Where is Islamic Jihad's leader while his group is shooting scores of rockets to Israel?Iran.Ramadan Shallah was already in Iran discussing ways to strengthen Islamic Jihad's ties with the regime....
View ArticleVideo of Arafat accepting Israel as a Jewish state
Last month I mentioned Haaretz had an interview of Arafat where he accepted Israel as a Jewish state.It turns out that Arafat said it on video as well. In English.)Unfortunately I don't know when or...
View ArticleInvasion of the Zionist persimmons
From Saudi Gazette:The Qurayyat Municipality is on alert after its team confiscated from the local fruit market 140 kg of kakis (the Japanese persimmons) that had Israeli stickers, a section of the...
View Article03/13 Links Pt1: The Palestinians' Real Enemies; Gaza Missiles are...
From Ian:Efraim Karsh: The Palestinians' Real EnemiesHad Israel lost the war, its territory would have been divided among the invading Arab forces. The name Palestine would have vanished into the...
View ArticleHamas starts to blame Egypt for dead babies (UPDATE)
The Hamas-oriented Felesteen news site reports on Ahmed Amar Abu Nahale, a three year old boy with an enlarged liver and heart who was supposed to be treated in Turkey, but who died waiting for the...
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