Monthly Archives: February 2024

The Former US Ambassador to Israel Who Can’t Get Basic Facts Right

(Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.) Martin Indyk has spent his entire professional life immersed in the Arab-Israeli conflict, holding prominent positions in...

Who’s afraid of a Palestinian state?

All you have to do to set off a firestorm in Israel is say, “Palestinian state.” Suddenly, nearly everyone is outraged, incensed and otherwise triggered by the reference coming from US, EU and others about...

UN cannot stop an effective campaign to curb UNRWA policies.

Concerning a new on-line petition to replace UNRWA:   UNRWA reports to the UN General Assembly, which will not allow UNHCR  or any other UN agency  to replace UNRWA.     The UN will simply not allow one UN agency to replace another UN...

US training and arming 5,000 Palestinian Authority troops in Jordan

The Biden administration is currently training and arming several thousand Palestinian Authority troops, commentator Carolyn Glick has recently denounced. As reported in The Media Line, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, and Axios, a recent joint security summit...

We have your back

As Brutus and his allies plunged their knives into Julius Caesar, they all declared, “We have your back.” How apt and appropriate this cynical declaration of false support seems these days as so-called friends and...

Hungary Refuses To Pile On to Europe’s Anti-Israel Bandwagon

With even Prince William and rather less gently the British parliament turning up the volume of the global din over Gaza, the European Union has this week leveled an almost collective swing at Israel....

A REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: In the land of war and hope

THE SHARDS OF the vessel that was shattered on Oct. 7 are scattered far and wide. They lie in cemeteries; their images look out at us from posters; others who are still breathing are...

UNRWA is the tip of the iceberg at United Nations

Since freezing UNRWA funding in January, after evidence emerged that the agency’s employees participated in the murder and kidnapping of Israeli civilians in the Oct. 7 massacre, the United States said it will instead...

Swings and roundabouts || The AlephBet Israel Blog

UNRWA has been unquestioningly exposed as covering up for and supporting the Hamas regime. Surely the organization has to be disbanded now? Netanyahu continues to project confidence that Israel will win the war, but...