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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Did Ehud Barak plan the mass protests in Israel years before "judicial reform" in a bid to return to power?

Akiva Bigman in Mida writes that Ehud Barak had been planning to bring Benjamin Netanyahu down via mass protests long before the judicial reform issue was brought up.Ehud Barak is a central figure in the protest movement against judicial reform. If you have been following the media, you may get the impression that although he is adamantly against Netanyahu and judicial reform,...

Since 1948, in any given situation, there seem to always be exactly 420,000 Palestinians

Here's an interesting coincidence.The UN in 1994:An estimate made by Abu Lughod indicated that the average number of indigenous Palestinians was about 420,000 in the West Bank and about 80,000 in the Gaza Strip by the end of 1948. News wires, March 2004:Schools and virtually every shop were closed in this city {Gaza City], where 420,000 people live. Internal...

UN-OCHA moving the goalposts to make Israel look bad

The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the Palestinian territories comes out with a report every month about imports, exports, entrances and exits from Gaza. In its report on June, it says:In June, the Israeli authorities allowed 42,220 exits of people from Gaza (in most cases, travelers exited multiple times). This is 13 per cent higher than...

12/18 Links: Is The New York Times a ‘Strong Supporter’ of Israel?; Bibi must move early on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plan; Why the BDS campaign is futile

From Ian: Is The New York Times a ‘Strong Supporter’ of Israel? However, by focusing solely on Israel’s actions as the determining factor regarding the future of the two-state solution, the New York Times is effectively removing any responsibility from the Palestinian Authority. Indeed, aside from a passing remark about Palestinian corruption dimming the hopes of a Palestinian...

The "If-Then" fallacy comes back in full force for Lebanon

Amir Tibon writes in Haaretz that the maritime border agreement between Israel and Lebanon are as important as the Abraham Accords:The Abraham Accords, for all the optimism and economic benefits they created, did not save the life of one Israeli soldier. After all, Israel had never gone to war with Bahrain, the UAE or Morocco. The Lebanon deal mediated by Biden’s point man,...

For Jews, Fake News Doesn't Go Back To Trump -- It Goes Back To Al Dura (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosEveryone knows about fake news. Some people know it's all Trump's fault, others know that it's all the media's fault. And now countries are generating it, using bots on social media. But for anyone who follows how the media reports about Israel, this is kind of old. How old? Daniel Rubenstein addresses this question in his first podcast, featuring...