Daily Archives: July 12, 2023
Phantom Nation – Inventing the “Palestinians” as the obstacle to peace
On March 9, 2014, Sha'i ben-Tekoa, DeProgram Program, gave a terrific and important presentation to Children of Holocaust Survivors on his book on the invention of a Palestinian people. There is hardly a person...
Jenin shows economic wellbeing does not eradicate terror
Rising living standards reduce the number of Palestinians joining terror organizations but acts of terror persist.
The start of the operation in Jenin this morning by the Israel Defense Forces represents the culmination of a...
The New Normal: criminalizing socio-political criticism as “right-wing supremacy”
Last month the American writer C.J. Hopkins, who lives in Germany, was placed under investigation by the Public Prosecutor there for tweeting the cover of his new book: The Rise of the New Normal...
50 Supreme Court decisions that were based on justices’ interpretations and opinions, rather than...
Look at Israel's High Court of Justice rulings to understand "judicial reform"
By David Bedein
The time has come to explain "Israel judicial reform".
Here are 50 Israel High Court of Justice decisions based on justices' interpretations...
House Republicans are drawing a bright line on UN reform
Liberals don’t like spending cuts, and they especially love spending taxpayers’ money abroad. So when the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs released its funding bill for fiscal year 2024 last month,...
Foreign office refuses request for documents concerning UK aid to Palestinian Authority
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has refused to disclose and publish documents concerning how British aid to the Palestinian Authority is audited.
In a statement to the Israel campaign groups We Believe in...
Media Romanticize Teenage Terrorists and Their Dreams of ‘Martyrdom’
Militants stand during the funeral of two Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen who were killed in an Israeli raid, in Jenin refugee camp, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 10, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
Spraying bullets...
War in the UNRWA refugee camp of Jenin
Shortly before 2 a.m. on July 5, 2023, the Israeli security force operation in Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp ended; it had lasted for 48 hours. It was broadest Israeli security force...