Monthly Archives: December 2018

Fair dinkum mate?

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time…writes Michael Kuttner. This well-known quote came to...

Weekly Commentary: Schemes Assuming IDF Can Have Freedom Of Movement Without Israeli Civilian Presence...

The presence of Israeli communities outside the "settlement blocs" in Judea and Samaria provides a compelling reason for the IDF to be deployed beyond the "settlement blocs". And looking at our track record to date it is...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 12 – December 18, 2018)

This past week events focused on four shooting, stabbing and vehicular attacks, three in the Ramallah area (one in the Old City in Jerusalem). The attacks reflect the rise in the number, quality and...

From Israel: In the North: Threats and Deception!

First order of concern: I have learned from Chaim Silberstein, father of Shira Ish-Ran, that she has had extensive surgery on the site where the bullet entered her abdomen during the terror attack outside Ofra....

UNRWA Uprising – with Swedish Subtitles

Om terroruppvigling bland barn i UNRWA, med svensk undertext

Words from Chaim Silberstein father of terror victim Shira Ish-Ran

I would like to share with you my reflections on the tremendously tumultuous period that my family and I experienced this past week. It was marked by the two extremes of the death of...

Palestinian Authority Continues Its “Pay for Slay” Policy

In 2017, we published a paper that revealed the fact that the Palestinian Authority is paying by law salaries to terrorists arrested in Israeli jails and to the families of deceased terrorists and injured...

Security Council Resolution 1701 and Its Systematic Violation by Hezbollah and Iran

The IDF is currently carrying out Operation Northern Shield to expose and neutralize the attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese border. The construction of the tunnels is another example of the systematic,...

Documenting BBC amplification of an UNRWA campaign

Among the topics (see ‘related articles’ below) that the BBC chose to promote during 2018 in a manner that went beyond ordinary reporting both in terms of the amount of content produced and adherence...

When your child goes to Israel for a gap year

Parents always worry about their children's welfare and certainly when they send their young adult children to an Israel gap year program. Rightly so, although in just about every case, the year passes and the kids...