Incisive News Diary

Posting: August 25, 2008 "Words, Words" What shall we call it? A lot of hot air? Declarations "signifying nothing"? Barak said that Labor would resign the coalition if the budget were unsatisfactory. Shas ministers said they'd leave...

PA Democracy in Action: Palestine Legislative Council Meets… And PA Security Services Round Up...

A side show to the middle east international news attention this week that was focused on Saddam Hussein was provided at the meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council at the private office compound of...

Netanyahu protests anti-Israel incitement at UNRWA camps

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11403 At a meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected to present proof of anti-Israel incitement in summer camps run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency...

Silence is not an option

Not one government in the world - including Israel - is ready to demand that the PA must repeal its law that if you murder a Jew you get a salary for life. Not one...

An IDF surgical operation which worked: UNRWA Jenin refugee facility, July 2023

While Israel's adversaries have been used to providing illustrations  of civilian casualties and damage to private property after almost  every IDF action since 1987, this time things were different.    The IDF strartegy .which focused on...

Jewish Symbolism: Saddam Executed On Day Babylon Laid Siege on Jerusalem

Moments before the rope was tightened around his neck, Saddam screamed out: "Long live Iraq and long live Palestine!" The execution of Saddam Hussein threw the Arab population throughout the land of Israel into a...

President Arafat Received the Letter of Credentials of the new German Ambassador And the...

GAZA - July 28 - WAFA (Official Palestine News Agency) - President Yasser Arafat received in His Headquarters in Gaza this morning, the credential letter of Mr. Andreas Reinieke, the new German representative to...

Rock Solid

The term “rock solid” can be described as something or someone you can trust not to change or disappear. This can have positive and negative connotations. Not so long ago, President Joe Biden, in one of...

Abbas and the ‘Armed Struggle’

On February 28, the Jordanian daily al-Dustur released an interview with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. It included the following: "At this present juncture, I am opposed to the armed struggle because we can't succeed...

The Continuing EU Role in PA Education

Herb Keinon's Jerusalem Post news report of November 2, 2001, indicating that "E.U. money has been used for Palestinian textbooks", was refuted by Ambassador Giancarlo Chevallard (Head of the Delegation of the European Commission)...