Category Archives: Islam

A recent essay touting a “one-state” approach to Israel-Palestinian issues is more about eliminating the world’s only Jewish state than offering real solutions to complex regional problems

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE The No-State Solution Robert Satloff May 31, 2023 Foreign Affairs should be congratulated for publishing this breathtakingly tendentious essay by Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami because it exposes the authors’ pseudo-academic argument as little … Continue reading

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“The Kingdom’s China-brokered renewal of ties with Iran has strained its relations with Israel and may have weakened Riyadh’s appetite for normalization”

ARAB NEWS High time for a ‘Hajj Express’ for Israeli Muslims Mark Dubowitz and Tzvi Kahn May 24, 2023 With the Hajj being only a month away, Saudi Arabia has a chance to take the high road with Israeli Muslims … Continue reading

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Military court in Gaza sentences four who were convicted of providing information to Israel to be executed by hanging and by firing squad

ARUTZ SHEVA Gaza: Four sentenced to death over providing information to Israel Dalit Halevi May 25, 2023 A military court in the Gaza Strip has sentenced several Palestinian Arabs who were convicted of providing information to Israel to be executed … Continue reading

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Mark Twain affirmed the unbreakable Jewish connection to the Land, and that it was desolate under then Ottoman control

TOWN HALL Mahmoud Abbas’ Foolishness on Center Stage at the UN Jonathan Feldstein May 18, 2023 …As much as these are historic facts that the world has overlooked in a knee-jerk response for supporting the Palestinian Arabs’ narrative, Abbas repeated … Continue reading

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Last month, during the final days of Ramadan, Israel had to contend with near-simultaneous attacks from Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and Gaza. The scale of the attacks was limited, but they underscored that Iran and its proxies can press Israel on four different fronts at once

THE NATIONAL INTEREST Gaza Rockets Pierce White House Optimism on Middle East David Adesnik May 18, 2023 …Israel’s adversary in the latest round of fighting was not Hamas, but the lesser-known and smaller Islamic Jihad. The latter is also a … Continue reading

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In response to communication from CAMERA’s Israel office, AP corrects their misleading reporting

CAMERA BLOG AP Improves Coverage on Palestinian Fatalities in Gaza, Balata May 22, 2023 CAMERA’s Israel office today prompted improved Associated Press coverage on Palestinian fighters killed earlier this month in the Gaza Strip, along with three more combatants killed … Continue reading

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For Washington, joint planning might work as a guarantee that there would be no surprises from Jerusalem

I24NEWS U.S. proposes joint military planning with Israel on Iran Jonathan Regev May 18, 2023 America offered joint military planning to Israel, in regards to Iran. But some officials in Jerusalem are hesitant to accept, according to some Israeli media. … Continue reading

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Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount raised Israeli flags and sang “Hatikva” at the site

JERUSALEM POST WATCH: 50,000 join Jerusalem Day flag march, scuffles erupt in Old City Tzvi Joffre May 18, 2023 About 50,000 Israelis gathered in Jerusalem for the Jerusalem Day flag march on Thursday, with police working throughout the day to break … Continue reading

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While Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in response, Hamas – with a rocket arsenal estimated at four times the size – stayed on the sidelines, apparently unwilling to see a repeat of the fierce 10-day conflict it fought in May 2021

REUTERS Why Hamas was not Israel’s target in Gaza airstrikes – this time Nidal Al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie May 18, 2023 Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left familiar images of towering spirals of smoke and wailing sirens but none … Continue reading

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The contemporary Nakba narrative is a masterpiece of ahistorical distortion and antisemitic propaganda. It casts the events of 75 years ago as a monstrous crime successfully committed by Jews against Palestinians

BOSTON GLOBE The real origin of the Palestinians’ catastrophe Jeff Jacoby May 14, 2023 MAY 15 IS the anniversary of Israel’s birth in 1948. It is also the date on which Palestinians in recent years have commemorated their Nakba, or … Continue reading

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