Most Clicked This Week
- I rarely post Al Jazeera, but this is worth a read: “Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded”
- Ted Cruz: "I would not make fighting same-sex marriage a top priority"
- Memo to #UNRWA: Lebanon census says 174,422 Palestinians live among them, but you say 449,987. Which is it?
- "Bernie is that Jew who has taken his people’s suffering and offered it entirely outward, in the service of other causes"
- "Some 75% of the Baltimore area’s Jews - around 100,000 people - live in 21215 and four other contiguous ZIP Codes"
- Kurds edge towards statehood, with Turkish, Israeli help
- Justin Trudeau just created a caste of economic untouchables. Can we stop this dystopian policy from taking hold in America?
- Countering the radical assault on Western history
Tag Archives: Palestinians
“If leaders on both the Israeli and Palestinian side are brave, there is another way of solving the problem that would give the Palestinians a state five times larger than Israel”
HAARETZ A Realistic Alternative to the Two-state Formula by Israel Harel April 7, 2017 …One path, which is also desirable for Israel, is the joining of territories under current Palestinian Authority rule to Jordan, in a political amalgamation. The kingdom … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Jordan, Palestinians, Two State Solution
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“A JCPA-commissioned poll published earlier this week found that only 26% of Israelis would support a unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank, while 61% oppose such a scenario” [VIDEO]
ALGEMEINER Unilateral West Bank Withdrawal Would Expose Tel Aviv Area to Same Rocket Threats Faced in Southern Israel by Barney Breen-Portnoy March 30, 2017 A unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank would harm Israel’s security, according to a new video … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged JCPA, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Palestinians, Tel Aviv, West Bank
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“Many things have happened in the past 24 years, both in the US and especially in the Middle East, but for these (mostly Democratic) lawmakers, nothing has changed’
ABU YEHUDA A discussion at the seder table by Vic Rosenthal March 31. 2017 So we are sitting around the seder table with our American Uncle Max and he says, “I remain convinced that a two-state solution is the only … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged AIPAC, Democrats, Palestinians, Two State Solution
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Yair Lapid, perhaps Israel’s next PM, on Palestinian peace process timing: “15-20 years, the main element of which is security arrangements” [VIDEO]
JNS Stop denying the Israeli consensus on the Palestinians by Jonathan S. Tobin March 30, 2017 Yair Lapid is the current favorite to become prime minister the next time the Israeli people go to the polls to elect a new … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinians, Peace Process, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid
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Baehr: “A meeting between #Trump and #Abbas, with talk of peace and solutions to long-standing conflicts will for a few minutes warm the hearts of all the conventional foreign policy establishment thinkers in Washington”
ISRAEL HAYOM Trump the peace processor by Richard Baehr March 14, 2017 …Trump could be looking beyond Abbas, who is now serving a second term beyond the one to which he was elected, and instead could be raising the profiles … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Donald Trump, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians, Richard Baehr
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“Referring to Abbas’s obsession with Arab Idol, other Palestinians launched a hashtag on Twitter: #AbbasFollowUsToo. The goal of the campaign is to express Palestinians’ disappointment with their leaders’ carelessness and disdain”
GATESTONE Palestinians: Arab Idol or Arab Apartheid? by Khaled Abu Toameh March 6, 2017 …It was not Abbas’s meeting with the Arab Idol contestants that sparked a wave of denunciations from Palestinians. Rather, it was his failure to set foot … Continue reading
A year working as a journalist in Israel and the Palestinian Territories made Hunter Stuart rethink his positions on the conflict
JERUSALEM POST How a Pro-Palestinian American Reporter Changed His Views on Israel and the Conflict by Hunter Stuart February 15, 2017 In the summer of 2015, just three days after I moved to Israel for a one-and-a-half year stint freelance reporting … Continue reading
“The explicit goal of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is the elimination of the Jewish state, not the building-up of a Palestinian counterpart”
BOSTON GLOBE Unlike Obama, Trump isn’t obsessed with where Israel’s Jews live by Jeff Jacoby February 7, 2017 …It takes a curious derangement to conclude from this that all would be well in the Middle East if only Israel would … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, Palestinians, Two State Solution
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Judea and Samaria Settlement Regulation Law “makes it harder for Israel to stick to its longstanding policy of permanent indecision in the West Bank”
TIMES OF ISRAEL The true significance of Israel’s settlement legalization law by Haviv Rettig Gur February 7, 2017 Criticism of the Regulation Law that passed Monday in the Knesset has been visceral and widespread. It comes from Israeli politicians on … Continue reading
“By placing all the blame on the Israelis for the death of the child, he is encouraging his readers to believe that the Palestinians are powerless to change the circumstances under which they live”
GATESTONE The Choices Palestinians Make by Dexter Van Zile February 6, 2017 …Instead of patting Palestinians on the head and telling them that everything is Israel’s fault, perhaps it is time to bring them up short and tell them, “Maybe … Continue reading
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