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BBC portrays Erekat as “a frustrated ‘peacemaker’ by erasing the narrative-conflicting parts of the story”

CAMERA BLOG The BBC News website’s airbrushed portrait of Saeb Erekat by Hadar Sela November 11, 2020 Unsurprisingly, the BBC’s portrait of Saeb Erekat in the wake of the Palestinian official’s death airbrushes him as a “negotiator” committed to the … Continue reading

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“Post-election blowback from moderates against the radicals could complicate the left’s progress in moving the party away from a pro-Israel position”

JNS Can Democrats finally repudiate ‘The Squad’? by Jonathan Tobin November 12, 2020 …Even as they celebrated their apparent victory in the presidential election, some Democrats spent the days after the voting complaining about the role that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez … Continue reading

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“Netanyahu has been lackadaisical about preparing for his trial – changing his main lawyer three times since May “

JERUSALEM POST Little chance Netanyahu will get plea deal to avoid trial by Yonah Jeremy Bob November 11, 2020 There is little chance Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit will give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a plea bargain deal that would allow him … Continue reading

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“Democrats expected Jewish voters to help them flip Georgia and Florida. Instead, Jewish voters flipped them off”

JNS Democrats’ anti-Semitism cost them in Florida and Georgia by Daniel Greenfield November 8, 2020 Before the election, Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute marked Georgia, along with Florida, as one of the states where the Jewish vote could help … Continue reading

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“The message Arabs are sending to the new US administration is: Do not repeat the mistakes of former President Barack Obama”

GATESTONE Why the Muslim Brotherhood Came Out of Its Hole by Khaled Abu Toameh November 11, 2020 Will a new US administration possibly under Joe Biden help revive the Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered a terrorist organization by Egypt, Saudi … Continue reading

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#TheyWillPayForTheirCrimes: “The idea of punishing people who have supported Trump also surfaced among media types including Jake Tapper of CNN and Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post”

THE FEDERALIST Totalitarian Left Promises Purges And Punishment For All Trump Voters by Carina Benton November 10, 2020 If 2020 didn’t already feel enough of a Kafkaesque nightmare, the latest bit of depravity from the “hate has no home here” … Continue reading

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Biden-Harris will restore economic aid to Palestinians, meaning US taxpayers will once again fund their pay-for-slay program, “contributing directly to the murder of Israel civilians: men, women, children, and rabbis”

PJ MEDIA How Joe Biden Will Turn the Clock Back and Fan the Flames of Conflict in the Middle East by Philip Carl Salzman November 10, 2020 …For seventy years American foreign policy has focused on satisfying the Palestinians as … Continue reading

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Biden and Israel: “there are good reasons to worry about the chances for greater tension, but as Netanyahu showed Obama, the Jewish state knows how to say “no”

JNS What a Biden presidency could mean for Israel by Jonathan Tobin November 5, 2020 …The alliances with the Arab states that have been forged with Trump’s help will become stronger, not weaker if Biden were to choose policies that … Continue reading

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“The US Congress, which oversees weapons sales abroad, appears to grasp Israel’s predicament. But Israel does not have a veto”

NEWSWEEK How To Maintain Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge by Jacob Nagel and Jonathan Schanzer November 4, 2020 The Arab-Israel conflict appears to be waning. Three Arab countries—the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Sudan—recently announced normalization agreements with Israel. More … Continue reading

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“Unlike this chamber which is detached from reality, a growing number of nations are acknowledging Jerusalem,” said Gilad Erdan”

JERUSALEM POST UN speaks of Temple Mount as solely Muslim site, ignores Jewish ties by Tovah Lazaroff November 5, 2020 Some 138 United Nations countries approved a draft resolution that spoke of the Temple Mount solely as an Islamic holy … Continue reading

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