Category Archives: Politics

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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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Israel has “annulled” the Oslo Accords, says P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas

JNS Abbas: PA no longer bound by agreements with Israel, US by Daniel Siryoti, Shahar Klaiman and Dean Shmuel Elmas May 20, 2020 Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that he was terminating all agreements with Israel and … Continue reading

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US plan to remove troops from Sinai “has been met with opposition by both the State Department and the Israeli government”

JEWISH INSIDER Congress warns Trump about withdrawing U.S. troops from Sinai by Jacob Kornbluh May 18, 2020 A bipartisan group of members of Congress — led by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) and ranking member Bob Menendez … Continue reading

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Saudi Arabia: “Our Relations with Israel Are Warm, Have Gone Beyond Normalization”

MEMRI Saudi Writer Abdulhameed Al-Ghobain: Saudis Care about National Interests, Not about the Palestinian Cause from BBC Arabic May 10, 2020 …Abdulhameed Al-Ghobain: “I am talking about public opinion. Today, the public is informed. There is a deluge [of opinions] … Continue reading

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“In a region rife with adversaries, Israel considers Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group, to be its toughest and most immediate threat”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) 20 years after withdrawal, Israel, Hezbollah brace for war by AP and ILH staff May 20, 2020 Twenty years after Israel withdrew from the security zone in southern Lebanon, the IDF and the Iranian-backed … Continue reading

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