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Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“Nearly 700 soldiers were killed during Israel’s 18-year occupation of Lebanon; journalist Matti Friedman teamed up with the Kan broadcaster to tell their story”
TIMES OF ISRAEL 20 years after Lebanon pullout, docuseries dives into the ‘War With No Name’ by Judah Ari Gross May 25, 2020 The grave of any soldier killed fighting in the Battle of Ammunition Hill on June 6, 1967, … Continue reading
“In late April, as Israel was busy managing its response to the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s National Water Authority was struck by a large-scale cyberattack”
PUNDICITY The Iranian-Israeli Conflict Goes Online by Ilan Berman May 26, 2020 A different kind of conflict is taking shape in the Middle East. Unlike the long-running Syrian civil war, this one is not a pitched power struggle between an … Continue reading
“How could Mandelblit indict Netanyahu for a nonexistent crime that is unheard of not only in Israel, but on most of the planet?”
JERUSALEM POST What on earth is media bribery, and should it be a crime? by Yonah Jeremy Bob May 25, 2020 …[Netanyahu’s lawyers] were especially irate because they said Netanyahu has faced decades of biased coverage against him, including in … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Avichai Mandelblit, Benjamin Netanyahu
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“Though they are 21 percent of population, Arabs account for only 2 percent of COVID-19 deaths and 6 percent of cases. Even the month of Ramadan ended without any outbreaks”
HAARETZ How Arabs Crushed the Curve and Became Israel’s Coronavirus Success Story by Ronny Linder May 21, 2020 There were two communities that worried the Health Ministry in particular during the coronavirus crisis – Arabs and ultra-Orthodox Jews, two groups … Continue reading
The perfect reality-show set up with 200 people from all walks of life: Israelis, Palestinians, religious and secular, all COVID patients recovering under one roof
NPR ROUGH TRANSLATION Hotel Corona by Gregory Warner and Daniel Estrin May 13, 2020 When the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem was leased by the government to house recovering COVID-19 patients, the new guests gave it the nickname, “Hotel Corona.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged coronavirus, COVID19, Hotel Corona
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“The Jordan Valley has always been considered an area that must be under Israeli control in any permanent establishment of borders, because it is essential to Israel’s defense”
ELDER OF ZIYON The Manufactured Outrage over “Annexation” by Vic Rosenthal May 21, 2020 …A few words about the reality behind the so-called “annexation.” To start with, nothing is being annexed. It is the reasonable position of the Israeli government … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Annexation, Jordan Valley, Judea, Peace to Prosperity, Samaria, West Bank
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#HasHeReallyThoughtThisThrough: “By halting the security crackdown on Hamas, Abbas would be paving the way for terrorists to kill him and his associates in the West Bank”
GATESTONE Abbas’s Precious Gift to Iran: Hamas by Khaled Abu Toameh May 23, 2020 …Khamenei evidently sees Abbas’s decision to renounce all agreements and understandings with Israel and the US as a positive development that would facilitate the mission Iran … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Ali Khamenei, Fatah, Hamas, Iran, Mahmoud Abbas, West Bank
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“Unlike AIPAC, the Conference can’t mobilize tens of thousands of activists to lobby Congress, attend an annual conference, or help direct campaign donations to friends of Israel”
COMMENTARY Who Really Represents America’s Jews? by Jonathan S. Tobin June 2020 …As the memory of the Holocaust faded and Israel grew stronger in its defense of itself, passionate involvement in sympathy for Israel began to wane within the American … Continue reading
GW University dean selection a sign of “the broader state of academia that continues to produce vapid pro-Palestinian polemics under the thin guise of scholarship”
NEWSWEEK Normalizing Palestinian Scholarship and Anti-Semitism in the Nation’s Capital by Asaf Romirowsky May 21, 2020 The recent appointment of Ilana Feldman as the interim dean of George Washington University’s (GWU) Elliott School of International Affairs is extremely concerning on … Continue reading
“Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters calls for ‘taking back the land’ from the river to the sea during online Nakba Day event”
ARUTZ SHEVA Roger Waters: ‘From the River to the Sea, we’ll take the land from Israel’ by David Rosenberg May 20, 2020 Former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters took part in a Nakba Day event last Friday, during which he … Continue reading
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Tagged JVP, Nakba Day, Roger Waters
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