Posts Tagged: Israel Palestinians
The Two-State Plan May No Longer Be Viable — and Israel Must Find a New Solution
JNS.org - Some in Israel sought to question the motives and significance of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration last month that Israeli settlements...
Why Israel Will Be Blamed for the Absence of PA Elections
When Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his advisors sit down to plan how to escape the possibility of holding elections for the Palestinian...
Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’
I have written before about the importance of semantics in the discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how frustrated many people are about losing various...
The Crisis of Violence in Israeli-Arab Society
The Joint Arab List, which became the Knesset’s third-largest faction in the recent elections, is wasting no time. Ayman Odeh, who leads the List, called...
Examining the BBC’s Claim of Palestinian Support for the Two-State Solution
Back in May, in a report concerning Palestinian rejection of the as yet unpublished US peace initiative, BBC News told its audiences that: It is unclear...
Abbas Doesn’t Allow Palestinians to Go to Israeli Hospitals — Unless They’re His Friends
Israel's Kan network has an expose on how the Palestinian Authority (PA) is endangering their citizens' lives by forbidding their people to be treated in...
BBC Imagery Implies Israeli Airstrikes Target Children
Unidentified aircraft, widely believed to be Israeli, recently carried out overnight airstrikes on targets belonging to Iran-backed militias near Syria’s border with Iraq. The BBC‘s report...
Puncturing the Lie of Palestinian Identity
JNS.org - Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), recently claimed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the Canaanites. “This land is...
Rashida Tlaib’s ‘Calming Feeling’
I must admit that I was probably wrong when I suggested that the Tlaib/Omar Israel fiasco was likely just a light thunderstorm that would quickly...
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,...
The Palestinians, Happiness, and the ‘Occupation’
It might sound frivolous to attempt to measure happiness. Still, for a Columbia University think tank and two respectable Canadian policy institutes, the measuring of...
As the PA and Jordan Help Foment Riots, Israeli Arab Imams Preach Peace
JNS.org - At first glance, Sunday’s Arab riots on the Temple Mount fit nicely into the media storyline that Israel’s “extremist right-wing nationalist” government is...
Palestinians Threaten to Void Agreements with Israel? They’ve Already Done It
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas threatened last week that his government would withdraw from all treaties and agreements signed with the state...
The Arab Political Crisis in Israel
JNS.org - The turmoil gripping Israel’s political system ahead of the repeat election in September has not skipped the Arab parties, among which a war...
