Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Foreign Ministry denies report that United Hatzalah team sent to provide disaster relief to Turkey left early following a verified security threat

JERUSALEM POST IDF to conclude Operation Olive Branch after saving 19 lives in Turkey Staff February 12, 2023 Israel’s Operation Olive Branch delegation will conclude its rescue operations in Turkey and return to Israel in the coming days, according to a … Continue reading

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Biden nominee “questioned labeling of Hamas as a terrorist organization”

ALGEMEINER US Withdraws Nomination of Activist Who Accused Politician of Being ‘Purchased’ by Pro-Israel Groups Andrew Bernard February 14, 2023 The United States has withdrawn its support for a human rights activist who accused US House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries … Continue reading

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Mazzig: “There is nothing more inconvenient to the political mobilization against Israel than the discovery that the Jewish state actually is made up of a majority of Jews of color who were refugees from murderous Arab regimes”

JEWISH CHICAGO ‘Wrong Kind of Jew,’ right kind of book Aaron B. Cohen January/February 2023 Many who oppose Jewish self-determination distort and seek to delegitimize Jewish memory, history, and identity by calling Israel a white, European, colonial, settler state. The … Continue reading

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If a Chinese spy balloon flew over Israel

CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY If a Chinese spy balloon flew over Israel Stephen Bryen February 6, 2023 Consider this: if China sent one of its high-tech surveillance balloons over Israel, what would happen? The answer: Israel would have sounded air … Continue reading

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“These materials reflect BLM’s long affiliation with the anti-Zionist and antisemitic BDS movement”

NEW YORK POST How Black Lives Matter is indoctrinating your kids — and what you can do about it Ricki Hollander February 7, 2023 …But though the coalition says its goal is to transform US classrooms into “incubators for inclusivity, equity, … Continue reading

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Saudi news site quotes unnamed Israeli military official saying any move by Tehran to ‘take advantage of tragic situation’ will be met with military response ‘without hesitation’

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel warns Iran against sending arms to Syria under guise of quake aid Emanuel Fabian February 9, 2023 The Saudi-owned Elaph news site on Thursday cited an Israeli military official as saying if Iran ships weapons to … Continue reading

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Colonel (Res.) Zeev Raz wrote that if the Prime Minister acts undemocratically, he should be killed, citing a traditional Jewish law

ARUTZ SHEVA Former senior Air Force officer hints at murdering Prime Minister February 4, 2023 Colonel (Res.) Zeev Raz, one of the leaders of the anti-Netanyahu protest movement and a former fighter pilot, is seemingly calling to murder the Prime … Continue reading

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We need a way out of the judicial clash, not more angry rhetoric — a rejoinder to Gordis, Friedman and Klein-Halevi

TIMES OF ISRAEL We need a way out of the judicial clash, not more angry rhetoric Gerald M Steinberg February 3, 2023 I have a great deal of respect for Daniel Gordis, Matti Friedman and Yossi Klein-Halevi. Their contributions as … Continue reading

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Why is Israel under threat from a terrorist group for allowing Jews to pray at Judaism’s holiest site? Why is it okay for everyone else to pray there and not for Jews? And why do these Palestinian groups get away with making such threats?

COMMENTARY Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder Meir Y. Soloveichik February 2023 …The current contretemps, like all others concerning the Temple Mount, reveals that [Moshe] Dayan’s original decision was a terrible mistake, the worst in Israel’s history. Rather than pacifying Jewish–Muslim relations, … Continue reading

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Gallup’s 2022 World Happiness Report proves that while Israel is thriving, its enemies are among the world’s most miserable

JNS Amid the noise and hate, Israel is happy Charles O. Kaufman February 8, 2023 Israel, home to 53% of world Jewry, is a happy place. Yet you wouldn’t know it if you believed the headlines about Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading

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