Tag Archives: Palestine

Setting the stage for the last great struggle between the Obama administration and Israel

COMMENTARY French Set Up Obama-Israel Fight by Jonathan S. Tobin January 31, 2016 At first glance, the announcement on Friday by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius that Paris will recognize Palestine if a new round of peace talks it has … Continue reading

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Washington continues to call for a single Palestinian state – but there are no real prospects for one

NEWSWEEK Ten Years of Hamas Rule: The Palestinians Must Solve Their Divide Before Peace with Israel by Jonathan Schanzer January 25, 2016 …Ten years on, the intra-Palestinian conflict is a glaring blind spot among Western policymakers. The enmity between the … Continue reading

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Defeating the radicals begins with the facts. Commit these to memory and advocate for Israel.  

FRONT PAGE MAG Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Simple Answers to False Claims by Dr Shmuel Katz January 25, 2016 It took the Arab propaganda machine decades of persistent, aggressive effort to convince many oblivious individuals – including some world leaders – of … Continue reading

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David Stoliar, sole survivor of Soviet-torpedoed Struma, has died

NEW YORK TIMES David Stoliar, Survivor of World War II Disaster, Dies at 91 by Robert McFadden January 23, 2016 For more than a half-century, David Stoliar remained a silent witness to the worst civilian maritime disaster of World War … Continue reading

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What part of this do you not understand: Fatah official says he’ll gladly accept state on 1967 borders as a step towards a nation stretching from the Jordan River to the sea

TIMES OF ISRAEL Fatah official: Palestine alongside Israel is just ‘a phase’ by Staff January 22, 2016 A senior member of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party has said a Palestinian state alongside Israel is only “a phase” and … Continue reading

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Bassam Tawil: “Unfortunately, the Israelis already know that so far, at least, Palestinian promises are not worth an old shoe”

GATESTONE Palestinians: Save Us from the Good-Hearted Westerners! by Bassam Tawil January 1, 2016 What can be done with these Americans and Europeans? They always seem pining for a dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians that would end in … Continue reading

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Obama Admin effort to undercut Congress on UNESCO defunding 

FREE BEACON Obama Administration Moves to Restore Funding for Anti-Israel U.N. Organization by Adam Kredo December 14, 2015 The Obama administration is waging a quiet effort on Capitol Hill to restore U.S. taxpayer funding for a United Nations organization that … Continue reading

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The nexus between Identity Politics and anti-Zionism

ARUTZ SHEVA The death knell for Women’s Studies by Professor Phyllis Chesler November 29, 2015 The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) has just voted to support a boycott of…ISIS. No, just joking. The boycott is against Israel – only. The recommendation was developed … Continue reading

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48% of Palestinians believe that the real goal of the “intifada” is to “liberate all of Palestine”. This isn’t about “despair and frustration”

GATESTONE Palestinians: The Real Goal of the Intifada by Bassam Tawil November 29, 2015 As the current Palestinian campaign of terrorism against Israel is about to enter its third month, it is still not clear to many what the Palestinians … Continue reading

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Palestinian polling data: Short term view on resolution is hopeful, long term not so much

MOSAIC MAGAZINE Compromise for Now, the End of Israel for Later by David Pollock November 19, 2015 …Altogether, then,the evidence suggests that today, at least, most Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza want a ceasefire and economic cooperation … Continue reading

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