Daily Archives: August 11, 2014
The Settler, by Orit Arfa
Like the thousands who made their lives in the rural settlement of Gush Katif in Gaza, college freshman Sarah Dakar didn’t believe the Israel Defense Force would dare kick Jews out of their homes...
Video of UNRWA Camps Showing Children Calling for Jihad Attracts Renewed Attention
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/09/video-of-unrwa-camps-showing-children-calling-for-jihad-%20attracts-renewed-attention/
A video of summer camps run by UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is making the rounds on pro-Israel social media networks again with footage...
What Is to Be Done About Gaza?
http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/done-gaza-2/
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Operation Protective Edge has not weakened or threatened Hamas enough to encourage them to accept a ceasefire. Israel has no choice but to continue to attack Hamas. Talks of reconquering Gaza are...
From Ben Gurion Airport to Vienna: My Ride with the Volunteer Pilot and Saed...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4359&sec=1&title=From_Ben_Gurion_Airport_to__Vienna:__My_Ride_with_the_Volunteer_Pilot_and_Saed_the_Antisemite
DISPATCH FROM STEFANIE HOTEL IN VIENNA
Last week, I learned suddenly that Austrian airlines resumed its flight to Vienna from Israel and I began to pack up quickly. Given the climate of anti-Semitism that has...
The tragedy of Gaza’s dual economy
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-tragedy-of-gazas-dual-econo
On either side of the Gaza-Israel divide, hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. That means livelihoods are destroyed or close to ruins.
Because of the greater loss of life and larger physical destruction, the...
Investigative Report: Green Olive Tours Promotes Palestinian Maximalist Claims Not In Accord with Any...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=4326&sec=2&title=_Investigative_Report:_Green_Olive_Tours_Promotes_Palestinian_Maximalist_Claims_Not_In_Accord_with_Any_Two_State_Solution
Before signing up to go a tour of Bethlehem and Hebron in the Palestinian territories given by Green Olive Tours, I had concerns about how they would portray the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. Now after...
Gaza Tension Stoked by Unlikely Alliance Between Israel and Egypt
Israel and Egypt quietly agreed to work in concert to squeeze Hamas after Egypt's military coup in 2013, a strategy that proved effective but which some Israeli and U.S. officials now believe stoked tensions...
Holy War Arrives in Germany
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4590/germany-jihad
"Never before have the sympathizers of Islamic terror appeared so openly in Germany." - Editorial, Westfalen-Blatt.
"Anyone who thought the civil war in Syria or the barbarity of the Islamic State in Iraq does not...
The U.N. Handmaiden of Hamas
On Wednesday, as a truce held between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefed the U.N. General Assembly. "The senseless cycle of suffering" must...
A Middle Way for the Gaza Fight
http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/middle-way-gaza-fight/
Executive Summary: Many supporters of Israel’s policy in the current Gaza battle argue that the only stronger alternative available for Israel is to reoccupy Gaza - which IDF sources have said might take a...