Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

If at any point Palestinians expressed a desire to live side-by-side with the Jewish state, they would have been included in talks

ALGEMEINER Washington Post Op-Ed Completely Distorts the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Ken Jacobson August 5, 2018 No matter how often one reads about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and thinks that one had heard it all, someone comes along and shocks us with … Continue reading

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Chomsky “may be intelligent when it comes to linguistics, but his statements regarding Israel, Russia, and the Holocaust are simply counter-factual”

GATESTONE Chomsky Calls Russian Interference a Joke – Blames Guess Who? by Alan M. Dershowitz August 3, 2018 Noam Chomsky has gone off the deep end once again. This time he claims that in “most of the world” the issue … Continue reading

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“Ephraim Talabi, now 55, goes to Jordan to find the former Fatah fighter Mohammed a-Sati, who ‘brought me back to sanity, to my real life’ through simple acts of kindness”

TIMES OF ISRAEL 36 years later, an Israeli POW meets the Palestinian captor who saved him by Staff August 3, 2018 Thirty-six years after he fell prisoner during the first Lebanon war, Ephraim Talabi decided to track down one of … Continue reading

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Contrary to what you’ve been told Tikkun Olam “isn’t the province of man at all; it is instead the work of G-d”

MOSAIC How American Jews Came to Believe That Tikkun Olam Was at the Core of Their Tradition Michael Weingrad August 1, 2018 …Tikkun olam is often translated as “repairing [or healing] the world.” For American Jews it refers more particularly … Continue reading

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Kushner: UNRWA “perpetuates the status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace”

I24NEWS Kushner plans to scrap special Palestinian refugee agency: report August 4, 2018 Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law, has been actively working to end the special refugee status of nearly five million Palestinians through the … Continue reading

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“This article is an open letter to any Liberal American Jew who has ever donated or considered donating to the New Israel Fund”

MIDA How the NIF is Ruining Israel’s Democracy by Ziv Maor August 3, 2018 …Like you, I am a Jew. I am also an Israeli and politically conservative. While we may differ in many things, we share a core identity … Continue reading

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“All this noise about the new nation-state law proves that the Jewish national identity is under attack”

ARUTZ SHEVA No Druze live better and freer than the Druze citizens of Israel by Atta Farhat August 3, 2018 There are no Druze in the world who can claim a better and freer life than the Druze citizens of … Continue reading

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#BDS is “targeting the most politically liberal wing of American Judaism, which already feels slighted over its treatment by Israeli rabbinate and government”

ALGEMEINER BDS Advocates Try to Split the Jewish Community From Israel by Alexander Joffe August 1, 2018 …Despite the recent incidents, Birthright officials have announced that they will not vet applicants. This decision also demonstrates the impossible dilemmas that BDS creates … Continue reading

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“Israel was “caught in the trap” set by the Tamimis”

JERUSALEM POST How did Ahed Tamimi Become a Palestinian National Icon? by Josefin Dolsten August 2, 2018 When Ahed Tamimi left an Israeli prison on Sunday after eight months, she returned home to jubilation from friends and family in her West … Continue reading

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Geraldo Rivera “smears Israel by suggesting that Israel’s defensive actions make Israel like the terrorists”

BREITBART I Read Geraldo‘s Anti-Israel Book So You Don‘t Have To by Morton A. Klein July 30, 2018 …Worse yet, Geraldo reiterates the Al Dura “Pallywood” hoax as if It were real. He treats the fake, staged video, taken by a Palestinian-Arab … Continue reading

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