Posts Tagged: Israel-Palestine
The UNRWA Charade
The recent decision by the Trump administration to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was nothing less than a long overdue moral...
Jordan Doesn’t Want a Confederation
JNS.org - The statement from Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ comments on a US suggestion of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation was short...
Regional Players Maneuver to Reconfigure the Israeli-Palestinian Landscape
A possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, may be about more than ending the ongoing, escalating violence that...
In Gaza, ‘The New York Times’ Obscures Cause and Effect
JNS.org - Following a well-worn pattern, The New York Times is again downplaying Palestinian belligerence, this time obscuring the fact that intensive Palestinian rocket attacks against southern Israel...
Israel’s Deterrence Against Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will see his electoral support plummet unless he finds a better solution to the barrage of Hamas rockets and incendiary kites...
Gazans Protest Cuts in Prisoner ‘Salaries’
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has seemingly cut or reduced the "salaries" of some terrorist prisoners -- those from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. There was a protest...
Washington Post Op-Ed Completely Distorts the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
No matter how often one reads about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and thinks that one had heard it all, someone comes along and shocks us with...
The New State Solution in a Region Where Seconds Count
In recent months, several senior security experts have expressed support for an alternative to Israel’s status quo with the Palestinians. The plan, known as the New State Solution, proposes joining a coastal section of the northern Sinai Peninsula to the...
Palestinian Authority, Which Has Been Strangling Gaza, Takes Credit for Its Reconstruction
I cannot recall an official government video as transparently false and cynical as this one. The Palestinian Authority has issued a statement and video called "Office...
Israel Helps the West with Security Needs; When Will the West Let Israel Defend Itself?
When the United States, Canada, and the European Union wanted someone to rescue members of the Syrian Civil Defense organization, also known as the White...
Keeping the Flag Flying in the Face of Hate
The process goes like clockwork. Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip attack Israel with rockets, kites, or huge crowds of people intent on crossing into...
Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party Says Israel Working to Destroy Al-Aqsa and All Jerusalem Is Arab Territory
This comes from the official Fatah news site: The Fatah movement confirmed that Israel has prepared and has been implementing a plan to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque...
How The New York Times Shills for ‘Largely Peaceful’ Gazan Rioters and Arsonists
JNS.org - A shill is the surreptitious partner of a huckster salesman, revving up an audience to believe a sales pitch and buy a product. Looking...
The Myth of Israeli ‘Deterrence’
For more than a decade, Israel has inflicted heavy damage on the Islamist terror groups Hezbollah and Hamas, which are ranged against Israel on its...
