Administrivia: Mailing list is back
After a couple of weeks of looking for a way to restore my daily email digest, I finally found a solution that seems to work. (The first solution had severe limitations on number of emails per...
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Small children performing Talmudic rituals at the Temple Mount!
The Aqsa Heritage Foundation scours Jewish websites to find photos of evil Jews "desecrating" the "Al Aqsa Mosque" this week. They came up with this:What they missed is that these children were...
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Arab Knesset member says Jews don't have any rights to Western Wall
He wears a tie so he's a moderateTaleb Abu Arar, a Knesset member under the United Arab List, has said that Jews have no claim on the Kotel or the Temple Mount.He issued a statement saying "no matter...
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Amnesty researcher admits that Palestinian "eyewitnesses" often lie
Donatella Rovera, an Amnesty field investigator, wrote an interesting article about the challenges of fact finding in war situations. One of her main points is that eyewitnesses are often unreliable....
View Article05/08 Links Pt1: Palestinian Magical Thinking; Jordan is Eastern Palestine
From Ian:Palestinian Magical ThinkingThe Palestinian elite and their children live comfortable and privileged lives in Ramallah and elsewhere in the region and beyond it. Combining this with diplomatic...
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Fatah's terror wing says it won't give up its weapons
Is there any real difference between Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party and Hamas?Once again, the answer is no.Just like Hamas said that its Al Qassam Brigades will not give up its weapons in any "unity"...
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Priest who encourages Christians to enlist in IDF stripped of his role
Father Gabriel Naddaf is the leader of the movement to encourage Christians to join the IDF. As Fox News reported last December:Some Arabic-speaking Christians in Israel are well aware that they live...
View Article05/08 Links Pt2: Khaled Abu Toameh wins Daniel Pearl prize; One Synagogue, 20...
From Ian:Abu Toameh wins 2014 Pearl prize for journalistic courageKhaled Abu Toameh, a reporter for The Jerusalem Post who has covered Palestinian and Arab affairs for the past three decades, is the...
View ArticleIsraeli paramedic receives Presidents Award - for saving Syrians
Meet Noga Erez, a paramedic in the IDF who works in the field hospital on the Syrian border.On Yom Ha'Atzmaut, Nioga received The President's Award for Excellence for her outstanding service.As the IDF...
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One more "Apartheid?" poster
I saw this photo tweeted by Avi Mayer, so how could I resist?
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Of course Israel should teach about the Nakba
Last week, Haaretz wrote an editorial saying the Nakba should be taught in Israeli schools:The dispute over the degree of Israel’s responsibility for the emigration, expulsion and displacement of...
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MK complained about Martin Indyk's manipulation of Israel in 2000
The Washington Free Beacon reports:Senior Obama administration officials have escalated a secret media war to discredit Israel in the press, providing highly critical anonymous quotes and negative...
View Article05/09 Links Pt1: Blaming Israel for the Failure of Talks; Zero Tolerance for...
From Ian:Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas' "Gift" To Israel on Independence DayThe new video released by Hamas should also be seen as a response to Abbas's recent claim that the unity government with Hamas...
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Saudi cleric says Islamic medicine cures MERS, AIDS, leukemia
From Al Arabiya:As Riyadh declared four new deaths from the MERS coronavirus and 18 new infections on Thursday, a Saudi cleric has claimed that he has found a cure for the deadly virus, prompting...
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Jordanian paper publishes antisemitic conspiracy theory - in English
From Jordan's Ammon News:Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? ...Some...
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The Second Temple's mysterious smooth stone
Israel Hayom has a nice survey on the state of archaeology along the Western Wall, and it adds this new information:The recent discovery is fascinating at the very least: a single stone that is...
View Article05/09 Links Pt2: BDS Movement: Barbarians Inside the Gates; J Street's false...
From Ian:Caroline Glick: A sad IndependenceIsrael is the most extraordinary collective achievement of the Jewish people in thousands of years. It is the embodiment of the dreams, faith, blood, sweat...
View Article05/10 Links: Chloe Valdary: Dear J Street, Time to End the Hypocrisy; Indyk’s...
From Ian:Chloe Valdary: Dear J Street: Time to End the HypocrisySo J Street will not tolerate “harassment” from a student who disagrees with its viewpoints but it will indulge a soft tyrant who has...
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PETA compares slaughtered pigs to Holocaust victims
A new PETA poster from Germany:"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal" - MLKOn their Facebook page, they write:In the past, many events were considered legal, which are cruel and...
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Obama's remarks on antisemitism ring hollow
The Tower reports:President Barack Obama was honored Wednesday by the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation. Filmmaker Stephen Spielberg, who created the foundation, presented the...
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