Posts Tagged: israel
Report: In Letter to Pompeo, Palestinian Authority Forgoes All US Aid, Fearing New Anti-Terror Law
The Palestinian Authority has reportedly informed the United States government that it is waiving all American financial aid due to a recent anti-terror law that...
A Tu BiShvat Guide for the Perplexed, 2019
1. The Jewish Arbor Day, Tu Bishvat (ט"ו בשבט) highlights human gratitude for the creation of fruit-bearing trees. Jewish tradition stipulates a one-sentence blessing before...
White House Envoy Greenblatt Denies Media Report on Details of Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan
US President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt has strongly denied a media report that claimed to expose details of the administration's...
Producers Reportedly in Talks With Madonna to Make Guest Appearance at Eurovision Contest in Tel Aviv
Producers of the 2019 Eurovision song contest set to be held in Tel Avivm in May are reportedly in talks with American pop star Madonna...
The ‘Apartheid Road’ That Isn’t
JNS.org - “Segregated Highway Opens in West Bank,” The Washington Post headline blared recently. “Israel Opens ‘Apartheid Road’ in Occupied West Bank,” announced Al Jazeera. Apartheid?...
Israeli Intelligence Infiltrates ISIS in the Sinai
JNS.org - In spite of the Egyptian army’s success in fighting the ISIS offshoot in northern Sinai, it has not managed to eradicate the organization,...
IDF Tank Goes Out of Control, Crosses Major Highway, After Crew Falls Asleep
In a bizarre accident earlier this week, an IDF tank crew taking part in a training exercises collectively fell asleep, causing the tank to go...
Palestinian Conspiracy Theories Explain the Lack of Peace
Though media outlets covering the region subject nearly every Israeli moral failure to something akin to a forensic examination, Palestinians (as we’ve documented continually) are...
A Full Plate Awaits Israel’s New IDF Chief
JNS.org - It’s not surprising that Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot spent his last night as army chief in the command bunker underneath IDF headquarters in...
The ‘Arab Street’ Is a Dead End
It’s time to put an old aphorism to rest. For decades, Middle East analysts and journalists have used the informal phrase “the Arab Street” to...
Syria Says Israel Fired Missiles Toward Damascus, Hit Airport Warehouse
The Syrian state news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defenses that shot...
Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Reveals Israel’s ‘Campaign Between the Wars’ Against Iran to New York Times
Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot revealed in an interview with The New York Times over the weekend that Israel has not only been undertaking...
Iranian IRGC Official Claims Lebanese, Palestinian ‘Resistance’ Groups Can ‘End the Disgraceful Life’ of Israel
A spokesman for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) asserted on Wednesday that Lebanese and Palestinian "resistance" organizations -- i.e. the Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror...
The Story of Israel and Abbas: Security Cooperation (and Terrorism)
At one and the same time, the Palestinian Authority (PA) indirectly encourages terrorism while pursuing extensive security cooperation with Israel to quell it. Israel accepts...
