Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

NBC News is aware they receive “more views promoting stories that bash Israel than those that focus on actually significant human rights stories”

JEWISH JOURNAL Media’s Hyper-Focus on Israel Shields World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers by Micha Danzig March 19, 2021 On March 10, 2021, five Palestinian Arab children between ages 8 and 13 allegedly tried to steal some expensive parrots or vegetables … Continue reading

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Common denominator in Iran’s opposition groups “appears to be a profound rejection of the country’s current, clerical system of government—and of the unaccountable ayatollahs who administer it”

NEWSWEEK Iran’s Opposition Is Sending Washington A Message by Ilan Berman March 15, 2021 Something profound is taking shape inside Iran. Mere months from the country’s next presidential election, and in the midst of a U.S. push for reengagement with … Continue reading

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In 2017, Iraqi President Fuad Masum approved a law that stripped Palestinian refugees living in Iraq of their rights and classified them as foreigners

GATESTONE How Arabs Discriminate Against Palestinians by Khaled Abu Toameh March 19, 2021 The Palestinian Authority (PA) has invited Iraq to send observers to monitor the Palestinian parliamentary elections, if and when they are held on May 22. The invitation … Continue reading

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Tom Friedman “misses the most important aspect of the accords, which is the end of the Palestinian veto over peace between Israel and the Muslim world”

JNS The two Tom Friedmans by Mitchell Bard March 17, 2021 …Analyst Friedman correctly observes that the establishment of relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan “could be game-changing.” He even gives credit to former President Donald … Continue reading

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“The economic and strategic ties between Israel and its Abraham Accord partners, as well as Saudi Arabia, are expanding faster than anyone could have imagined”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Abdullah the Irrelevant of Jordan by Caroline Glick March 19, 2021 …The Hashemite royal house in Jordan is an artifact of Britain’s colonial regime in the region a century ago. The Hashemites are a … Continue reading

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Abu Dhabi to put money into Israel’s strategic sectors including energy manufacturing, water, space, healthcare and agri-tech

TIMES OF ISRAEL UAE announces $10 billion fund for investments in Israel by AFP March 12, 2021 The United Arab Emirates on Thursday announced it was setting up a $10 billion investment fund aimed at strategic sectors in Israel, with … Continue reading

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Buenos Aires: “We remember with pain the 29 victims of the attack and the dozens of injured, victims of a criminal act of terrorism”

ALGEMEINER Officials, Jewish Groups Mark Anniversary of 1992 Israeli Embassy Bombing That Killed 29 by Staff March 17, 2021 Israeli, Jewish, and Argentine leaders and institutions commemorated on Wednesday the anniversary of the March 17, 1992 bombing of the Israeli … Continue reading

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ZOA documents errors and misinformation in Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land”

Zionist Organization of America ZOA Letter to Publisher of Obama’s “A Promised Land” – Citing Numerous Anti-Israel Errors March 3, 2021 We write on behalf of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest and one of the largest pro-Israel … Continue reading

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“Empowering Iran will come at the expense of not only Saudi Arabia – but at the expense of Iraqis, Lebanese, Syrians and Yemenis”

THE INDEPENDENT The whole of the Middle East will pay the price for Biden’s Iran appeasement policy by Mohammed Khalid Alyahya March 13, 2021 Since the Biden administration’s decision to reverse the designation of Yemen’s Houthi militia as a foreign … Continue reading

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Parts of books of Nahum and Zechariah, world’s oldest woven basket, 6,000-year-old mummified child, Bar Kochba Revolt coins among stunning finds from daring Judean Desert rescue op

TIMES OF ISRAEL Bible scroll fragments among dazzling artifacts found in Dead Sea Cave of Horror by Amanda Borschel-Dan March 16, 2021 In a stunningly rare discovery, dozens of 2,000-year-old biblical scroll fragments have been excavated from Judean Desert caves … Continue reading

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