Monthly Archives: May 2021

Understanding the Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon Hatzadik Property Dispute

Israel’s critics have distorted the facts, perverted international law and attempted to intimidate courts and law enforcement officials into adopting the critics’ bigotry. To read full article click here. 

Refugee camps in Gaza fired more than 130 rounds of missiles at Jewish communities...

In that context: UNRWA donor nations** may wish to consider… Cancel the new UNRWA war curriculum, based on Jihad, martyrdom and the “right of return by force of arms”, which have no place in...

Escalation in Israel’s South – Rocket Fire from the Gaza Strip

The hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem escalated to a new height on May 10, 2021, the day Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day. Hamas' military-terrorist wing issued an ultimatum to Israel, calling for the removal...

Hezbollah’s Missile and Rocket Arrays: A Tough and Complex Challenge for Israel

The radical Shiite axis led by Iran has been deployed through its proxies throughout the Middle East. The Axis' military capabilities, with an emphasis on missile use, are numerous and advanced. These capabilities directly...

Who Is Behind the Disturbances in Jerusalem?

If events in east Jerusalem were up to the local residents, they would try to contain the violence erupting around the Temple Mount, but it is not in their hands alone. Many cooks are...

The lie that sets Jerusalem alight

Some 20 years after the October 2020 riots on the Temple Mount, and the unforgettable remarks by then-leader of the Ra'am party MK Abd al-Malik Dahamsha that he woud "be willing to be the...

The Realignment

On Sunday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan phoned his Israeli counterpart and turned back the hands of time. According to the American readout of the conversation, Sullivan called “to express the United States’ serious concerns”...

Reminder (via zoom) UNRWA policy briefing for US Congressional Staff: May 11, 2021

https://israelbehindthenews.com/2021/05/07/policy-briefing-for-congressional-staff-unrwa-fact-vs-fiction-countering-disinformation-and-helping-palestinians/ (via zoom) UNRWA policy briefing for US Congressional Staff: May 11, 2021 UNRWA Fact vs Fiction: Countering Disinformation and Helping Palestinians Tuesday May 11, 2021 at 1:30pm EST As Congress considers the Administration’s request for renewed UNRWA funding, you are invited...

Israel, judar och fred i texter som används av UNRWA-skolor

Vid en tidpunkt då UNRWA-utbildning diskuteras allmänt har Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research genom Dr. Arnon Groiss * sammanfattat sin 20-åriga studie av alla 1000 skolböcker som den palestinska myndigheten använt under...

From Israel: Yom Yerushalayim and the Fight Rages!!

Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day) celebrates the Israeli reunification of Jerusalem on the 28th of Iyar in the course of the Six Day War in 1967. In course of Jerusalem’s long history it has been divided...