Tag Archives: West Bank

Chief Rabbinate to weigh ending Rabbi Riskin’s tenure in Efrat

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Gedalyah Reback May 25, 2015 Senior officials said to seek removal of popular US-born rabbi for his liberal views on conversion, other issues Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin has been summoned for a hearing by the … Continue reading

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A Preview of ‘Palestine’

FRONT PAGE MAG by Ari Lieberman May 12, 2015 Anyone wishing to get a glimpse of what a future “Palestinian” state might look like, need look no further than recent actions taken and official statements made by both the Palestinian Authority and … Continue reading

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The Palestinians No One Talks About

GATESTONE by Khaled Abu Toameh April 29, 2015 The international community seems to have forgotten that Palestinians live not only in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but also in a number of Arab countries, especially Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Western … Continue reading

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SodaStream Adds ‘Made in West Bank’ to Labels

TABLET MAG by Stephanie Butnick April 8, 2015 SodaStream, the Israeli at-home carbonation company whose West Bank factory has made it one of the prime targets of BDS activists, has agreed to add “Made in the West Bank” to labels … Continue reading

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Obama’s Chief of Staff Fires up J Street: Israel’s ‘Occupation Must End’

BREITBART by Joel B. Pollak March 23, 2015 White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough earned raucous cheers from the left-wing activists gathered at J Street’s fifth annual conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday when he attacked Israel’s occupation of the West … Continue reading

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Europe Offers Israel the Peace of the Dead

FRONTPAGE MAG by Ken Levin January 19, 2015 ….The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has provided for Palestinian refugees and their descendants for sixty-five years…..with all other refugee populations, whose total numbers over the decades have been orders … Continue reading

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Inflated Palestinian Population Figures Lie Behind Talk of ‘Demographic Time Bomb,’ Israeli Expert Says

ALGEMEINER by Ben Cohen December 30, 2014 The latest demographic survey of the Palestinian population by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics overestimates the number of Palestinian residents between the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan by around 1.2 million, … Continue reading

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Why Do 80% of Palestinians Support Murder?

ALGEMEINER by Moshe Phillips and Binyamin Korn December 15, 2014 In most parts of the world, it’s not easy to find a major issue on which 80 percent of the population agrees. An election victory in the United States is … Continue reading

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UN Security Council urges probe into death of PA official

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Staff and AFP December 13, 2014 The UN Security Council said Israel and the Palestinians must exercise “maximum restraint” and conduct a “swift and transparent investigation” into the death of a senior Palestinian official [Minister Ziad … Continue reading

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British Reporter: Palestinians Prevented Israeli Medic From Aiding PA Official and Convicted Terrorist Ziad Abu Ein

ALGEMEINER by Ben Cohen December 10, 2014 A British television news reporter has revealed that Palestinian demonstrators near the West Bank village of Turmusaya prevented an Israeli medic from providing aid to a Palestinian Authority official who collapsed after he … Continue reading

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