Posts Tagged: Israel-Palestine
World Bank Ignores Palestinian Authority ‘Play-to-Slay’ Crisis of Its Own Making
JNS.org - In a press release accompanying a new World Bank report assessing the Palestinian Authority (PA) economy, Kanthan Shankar, the World Bank’s country director...
The Jordan Valley Is Waiting for Zionist Action
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley is worthy of praise. The reasons for doing so were already evident to...
Clarifying the Palestine Saga
The Palestinian leadership is rehashing the notion that Palestine has been Arab/Muslim from time immemorial. But is such a claim consistent with historic documentation? According to...
Anti-LGBT Discrimination Is Now Official PA Policy
JNS.org - After Palestinian LGBT organization al-Qaws announced that it had held a gathering in the West Bank city of Nablus earlier this month to...
BBC ‘Homemade’ Palestinian Weapons Return to News Reporting
Back in November 2012, a BBC TV presenter told viewers that Hamas was "only" firing “home-made contraptions” at Israeli civilians. We wrote about that here:...
At the Risk of Further Upsetting Ms. Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib was in tears over the conditions in which her grandmother lives in the West Bank, and furious that her mother, an American citizen,...
Palestinians: Palestine Would Be a Beacon of Light of Liberalism to the World — If It Wasn’t for Evil Racist Israel
The recent UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) meeting looking at the policies of the Palestinian Authority (PA) on fighting racism and bigotry in its society...
For Jews, Love Must Always Conquer Hate
At 3 AM on Thursday morning, Dvir Sorek, an Israeli yeshiva student from Ofra, was found stabbed to death close to Efrat in Gush Etzion. Dvir...
Tlaib and Omar Can Make History If They Choose
Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) plan to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories during the August recess. Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, has said that she...
The Price of Palestinian Frustrations
JNS.org - Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud fell victim to Palestinian outrage last week during a visit to Jerusalem. Saud was part of a delegation of...
Spitting in the Face of Cooperation with Israel
JNS.org - If further proof were needed to illustrate the futility of diplomatic overtures to the Palestinian Authority (PA), Monday’s attack on a pro-Israel Saudi...
Money Can’t Buy Love (or Peace from Terrorists Who Want to Murder Jews)
JNS.org - A $50 billion “Peace to Prosperity” economic development plan won’t buy peace from those Palestinian Arabs who have been indoctrinated since birth to...
Defending Israel With Words, Passion, and Education
Several years ago, I had the privilege of being in the White House's Roosevelt Room, where along with several Jewish community leaders, I met with...
The Path to Peace: Step One, Vision; Step Two, Political Settlement
Nobody expected the Trump administration’s “Opportunity of the Century” economic plan to resolve the Palestinian impasse, but it does have the benefit of demonstrating real...
