Posts Tagged: Palestinians
In Gaza, It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
It is not the economic malaise in the Gaza Strip that has precipitated Palestinian violence. It is the other way around -- the endemic violence has caused...
Palestinians Know Abbas Is to Blame for Gaza. When Will the West Wake Up?
The Palestinian Coalition for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights sounds like one of the scores of NGOs set up in the territories solely to attract European cash...
Before Gaza Can Be Answered, Larger Questions Remain
As long as the historic debate about the two-state solution remains unresolved, the future of Gaza in general and Hamas’s continued rule in particular will...
Gaza Is on Borrowed Time
JNS.org - It was hard to find anyone in Israel who believed that the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday would last very long. Conventional...
Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
Mention history, and it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation, and folks might start running for the hills,...
‘Nakba,’ ‘Naksa’ … Nowhere
JNS.org - When it comes to the Palestinian “original sin” theory of Israel’s creation, there are two key milestones: the flight of approximately 750,000 Arab refugees...
One Year Later, Egypt Still Won’t Send Electricity to Gaza
Palestine Today reports that electricity from Israel is no longer being set to Gaza (without mentioning that it was Hamas and Islamic Jihad rocket fire that caused the...
The UN’s Sordid Embrace of Antisemitism
The following is a speech delivered by Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the President of Human...
Gaza Border Heats Up Again With Mortar Fire, Infiltration Attempts, and Fire Sparked by Incendiary Kites
Israel’s Gaza border saw further escalation over the weekend, with mortars fired into southern Israel, two terrorist infiltration attempts, and a major fire sparked by...
War or Peace? The Choice Rests With Hamas
JNS.org -- This week’s mortar fire on southern Israel is the gravest security escalation on the Israel-Gaza border since “Operation Protective Edge” in the summer of 2014, though...
Palestinian ‘Academic’ to Israelis: ‘May You Rot in Hell Along With Your Jewish State’
This is from the Facebook page of Rima Najjar, an American-educated retired professor of English literature at Al-Quds University, now living in Bloomington, Indiana. Can't you feel the love? This...
Kindergarten Graduation in Gaza: Kids Stage Mock Attack, Including Hostage-Taking
JNS.org - At the graduation ceremony of the Al-Hoda kindergarten in Gaza, pre-schoolers carrying mock guns and rifles simulated Islamic Jihad militants storming an Israeli building...
‘Non-Violent’ Palestinian Rock-Throwers Murder Another Israeli
JNS.org - Another Israeli has been murdered, after having been struck in the head by what Haaretz described as a “heavy brick.” For years, major American news media outlets...
Hamas Prepares for More Violence and Bloodshed
JNS.org - The rapidly increasing pace of security incidents on the Israel-Gaza Strip border does not bode well. At best, it indicates that Hamas is looking...
