Friday, July 21, 2017

The three separate but intertwined Jewish-Arab conflicts - by Vic Rosenthal

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...Sometimes what appears to be human progress is actually the opposite. Contemporary diplomacy can only solve political conflicts, not ones...

Who is Khulood Badawi and Why is Human Rights Watch Posting Articles from a Palestinian Propagandist? - NGO Monitor

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... apparently on the sidelines, she also writes propaganda for Human Rights Watch. Which isn’t surprising for HRW, which has an apparent po...
Thursday, July 20, 2017

Temple Mount and the apparent need for malarkey detectors as well - by Michael Freund

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...Installing metal detectors may restore some quiet in the short term, but as long as the Jewish state neglects its responsibility towards ...

The Al-Aqsa factor: Rats, snakes and chickens - by Arnold Roth

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...You might imagine that at least some of those deeply-concerned public personages who in the past decried Israel’s “indiscriminate,” “heav...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Thoughts about (another) "Day of Rage" and honor/shame - by Elder of Ziyon

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...Palestinians are completely defined by honor and shame. They cannot communicate except in those terms. Arabic media is filled with words ...

The More Apt Headline? “Israel’s War Against George Soros” or “The NY Times’ War Against Israel.”? - by Ira Stoll

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...Why is the Times so eager to side with Soros against Netanyahu? Because Soros — publicly avowed as neither a Zionist nor a “practicing J...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Why the BBC’s failure to cover faux outrage in Jerusalem matters in the UK - by Hadar Sela

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...The absence of any sober, factual BBC reporting on this latest example of anti-Israel delegitimisation and dangerous incitement dressed u...

Erdogan's Obsession to Take Jerusalem - by Burak Bekdil

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...As an American friend delicately asked: "Isn't Turkey supposed to be investing millions to help rebuild Gaza?" Not, it seem...

Observations on a murder and metal detectors - by Vic Rosenthal

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...Is this the start of yet another period of increased violence and terrorism? That will depend, I think, on our ability to avoid confusion...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Surprise? Haaretz Editor: I’m Anti-Zionist and Yes, Israel=Apartheid - by Daniel Pomerantz

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...In short, if Haaretz truly cannot bring itself to start behaving like an actual newspaper, then it should stop calling itself one. Perha...

Two images: Do the things that offend people say something about them? - by Arnold Roth

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...The deaths by shooting of the two men whose self-endangering presence was meant to protect the Al-Aqsa precinct and its worshipers from t...

Yet another example of how terror apologists avoid acknowledging the reality of Palestinian violence - by Ariel Behar

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...For a group that is supposedly inspired by its faith to work for justice and equality for both Israelis and Palestinians, Jewish Voice fo...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

The Friday killings: Jordan condemns but pay attention to whom - by Arnold Roth

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...Obviously it's orders of magnitude easier for Jordan to blame Israel than to bite the bullet of Palestinian Arab and Jordanian (essen...

Mahmoud Abbas Will Never Walk the Walk of Peace - by Prof. Hillel Frisch

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Thanks to his struggle against Israel, Mahmoud Abbas is a political superstar. Many heads of NATO states can only dream of his access to gre...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Ma'an's Temple Mount Terror Attack Report: Druze Are Palestinians? - by Sheri Oz

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...The one thing Ma’an got right is when they reported that the terrorists opened the attack against the Israeli security officers. Their r...
Friday, July 14, 2017

'Their Land'? The LA Times and the Bedouin of Khan Al Ahmar - by Tamar Sternthal

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...Were the European Union to abandon its policy of constructing illegal shelters lacking basic infrastructure, and to instead assist the Be...

Fourteen Flaws in Thomas Friedman’s ‘Israel to American Jews’ NY Times Column - by Ira Stoll

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...Friedman’s column was headlined “Israel to American Jews: You Just Don’t Matter.” For 14 reasons, a more accurate headline would have bee...

BBC Middle East correspondent: Jewish history in Hebron is a ‘view’ - by Hadar Sela

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...Like the rest of the BBC’s coverage of this story, Bateman’s equivocal ‘he said-she said’ account and his refusal to even provide histori...
Thursday, July 13, 2017

For some reason, the U.S. consulate is determined to wipe out Jewish history in the Holy Land - by Stephen M. Flatow

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...For some reason, the U.S. consulate is determined to wipe out Jewish history in the Holy Land. I suppose one could say that’s consistent ...

Car ramming headlines? We should be grateful for small tidbits: the headline refers to Judea as "Israel." - by Judean Rose

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...Note that the terrorist becomes an "assailant," and soldiers becomes "soldier." There's no mention of any injury ...