Most Clicked This Week
- Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of Leonardo da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind
- Harvard has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.
- What six years of ‘reset’ have wrought
- Dore Gold resigns: "The role of director-general of the foreign ministry was a professional and personal peak in all the years that I served on the diplomatic front"
- "On its face, Trump’s announcement that he is pulling US forces out of Syria seems like an unfriendly act toward Israel. But it isn’t"
- "Health Ministry to file police complaint against passenger who flew United from Newark to Israel knowing he’d tested positive, didn’t notify crew"
- Hamas holds conference to plan for which Jews they will murder once Israel is destroyed; entrapping others to prevent a “brain-drain”
- Could Obama be ready to stop blaming Israel ?
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
AIPAC and the Taylor Force Act, A nasty hit piece on AIPAC in the Washington Post, videos from 2018 policy conference
ALGEMEINER Why Isn’t AIPAC Lobbying for Taylor Force Act? by Shmuley Boteach March 6, 20188 Eighteen thousand people are here in the nation’s capitol to advocate for Israel. On Tuesday, they will fill the halls of Congress to lobby for important pro-Israel … Continue reading
Yishai Fleisher NYT op-ed raised issues “that shouldn’t even be debated”
ALGEMEINER Article by Israeli Prompted ‘Big Argument’ Inside New York Times, Editor Says by Ira Stoll February 28, 2018 A New York Times op-ed piece by a spokesman for the Jewish community of Hebron [Yishai Fleisher] was published over the objections of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Links
Tagged Hebron, Iran, Javad Zarif, New York Times, Yishai Fleisher
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Forthwith Virgin Atlantic shall refer to this course as “Couscous salad” not “Palestinian couscous salad”
ELDER OF ZIYON In search of “Palestinian couscous” March 2, 2018 “Palestine’s diplomatic corps and the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign have intervened in the row over Virgin Atlantic’s decision to remove the word “Palestinian” from a dish on … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Palestine, Palestinian, Virgin Atlantic
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“There’s no doubt that Donald Trump’s election initiated a major disruption at the State Department”
MODERN DIPLOMACY A New Era at the State Department? by A.J. Caschetta February 25, 2018 …Ever since the partition of UN Mandate Palestine and the creation of Israel, the State Department has promoted a grievance-based approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, Palestine, Palestinian, US State Department
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California Democrats at annual convention: We don’t oppose #BDS [VIDEO]
MIDDLE EAST MONITOR California Democrats reject anti-BDS legislation March 1, 2018 California Democrats have rejected proposed legislation targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a further sign of a growing partisan divide in the US over Israel. The developments were … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, California, Democratic Party, Democrats
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If Saudi Arabia grants El Al airspace this would be huge
REUTERS Israel’s El Al seeks international help to access Saudi airspace by Tova Cohen and Ari Rabinovitch March 1, 2018 Israel’s flag carrier El Al has asked an airline industry lobby group to help it access Saudi Arabian airspace, so … Continue reading
“Sunni eyes are opening to the fact that Israel poses no threat, but that Shi’a Iran…aspires to dominate far beyond its borders”
JNS Syria is now ‘a Shi’a colony of Iran,’ Damascus-born professor tells Israeli conference by Yaakov Lappin February 28, 2018 After years of bloody warfare, Syria has become a “Shi’a colony of Iran,” a Syrian professor who lives in Germany … Continue reading
Reversing flow of that Egypt-Israel pipeline “to import gas into Egypt instead of having the country export gas to Israel”
MADA MASR Companions to the Israeli gas deal: Noble and Delek in talks to acquire East Mediterranean Gas pipeline by Asmahan Soliman, Translated by Salma Khalifa February 28, 2018 Sources close to the gas deal signed between Dolphinus Holdings, which … Continue reading
#BDSFail #PayPal assist on fighting #BDS
JERUSALEM POST PayPal closes second illegal French BDS account by Benjamin Weinthal February 26, 2018 For the second time in 30 days, the US-based online payment service giant PayPal shut down the account of a French organization advocating for the … Continue reading
Bibi’s long run as PM is the consequence of Palestinian terror
NEW YORK TIMES Don’t Count Bibi Out — Yet by Bret Stephens February 23, 2018 …It should go without saying that a Palestinian state is a terrific idea in principle — assuming, that is, that it resembles the United Arab … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinians
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 