Tag Archives: West Bank

The Left’s Bigotry of Low Expectations — which makes them racists.

TIMES OF ISRAEL You are the racist, actually, not me by Rachel Moore December 30, 2016 I am an Orthodox Jewish settler raising seven children in the West Bank. I’m also an American citizen and I voted for Donald Trump. … Continue reading

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Your fact-of-the-day: “Not ALL of Judea and Samaria are currently disputed territories, as Israel ceded parts of these areas to the #Palestinians in the context of the Oslo process”

JEWISH PRESS U.S. Policy on Israel and the Obama-Trump Transition by Dr Ken Levin December 15, 2016 In a speech to the UN General Assembly on September 20, President Obama declared that Israel should recognize “it cannot permanently occupy and … Continue reading

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Way to go #France: “There are 200 territorial disputes in the world today, and France has singled out one of them—Israel’s with the Palestinians—for special treatment”

NEWSWEEK France Should be Ashamed of Labeling Products Made by Jews by Michael Oren November 30, 2016 To its credit, France is one of the first countries in Europe to ban economic boycotts of Israel. To its shame, France is … Continue reading

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“Why J Street’s push to revoke tax exemptions for groups supporting Jewish communities in the West Bank is unconstitutional”

TABLET MAG The Problem With Using the Tax Code to Punish Israeli Settlements by Eugene Kontorovich October 6, 2016 J Street and like-minded progressives are campaigning to eliminate U.S. tax exemptions for charitable groups that provide support to Jewish communities in … Continue reading

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New York Times takes a pass on the important Israel stories, focuses instead on those provocative peace-threatening West Bank settlements

ALGEMEINER The New York Times’ Obsession With Settlements Means It Misses Other News by Ira Stoll October 6, 2016 One of the ways the New York Times shows its bias against Israel is with decisions on the placement of stories. The … Continue reading

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Ettinger: “Anyone claiming that Israel must concede geography in order to secure demography is either dramatically mistaken or outrageously misleading” [VIDEO]

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Legal expert Alan Baker on Israeli “occupation” and settlements [VIDEO]

ELDER OF ZIYON August 22, 2016 International law expert and former Israeli ambassador to Canada Alan Baker describes why Israel is not an occupier under international law and why settlements are not illegal.

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“Israel’s interest is now not only for Abbas to remain in his position, but also to strengthen him in that position using the “carrots,” so he could stop Hamas from taking over the PA”

YNET Hamas set to take majority of West Bank cities in local elections by Alex Fishman August 21, 2016 As part of its efforts to take over the Palestinian Authority, Hamas unexpectedly decided to run in the West Bank municipal … Continue reading

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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell, 1984

GATESTONE A Guide to the Palestinian Lexicon by Khaled Abu Toameh August 1, 2016 Many Palestinians refer to cities inside Israel proper as “occupied.” Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Tiberias, Ramle and Lod, for example, are often described in the Palestinian media … Continue reading

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“It is not “occupation” that underlies the lack of “hope on the horizon” but the century-long Palestinian rejection of the Jewish right to statehood”

JERUSALEM POST It is not the ‘occupation’ by Efraim Karsh Jun 21, 2016 …Since the beginning of 1996, and certainly following the completion of the redeployment from Hebron in January 1997, 99% of the Palestinian population of the West Bank … Continue reading

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