The real elephants in the room (2023 edition)

Recently, a group of hundreds of North American academics issued a statement linking the Israeli governments support for judicial reform with the "occupation" and saying Israel is guilty of apartheid and Jewish supremacism.They called the Israeli presence in Judea and Samaria "the elephant in the room."This prompts me to bring up the real elephants in the room - the elephants...

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The Elephants in the Room, 2020

I used to have a roughly annual feature called The Elephants in the Room, where I would list all of the inconvenient facts that show that peace is impossible. I haven't done it since 2013, and the list is still very similar to what it was then. The real issues are swept under the rug, while everyone talks about "occupation" as if that is the main obstacle to peace. It isn't. So...

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The elephants in the room of the Maronite Patriarch kerfuffle

The Lebanese, and now anti-Israel Palestinian Christians, continue their uproar over the planned visit of Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai to Israel to welcome the Pope that I mentioned last week.  Ma'an reports that the rabidly anti-Israel Kairos Palestine issued a statement (not on their website yet) denouncing the trip: Palestinian group Kairos released a statement...

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The elephants in the room, 2013

Now that US has successfully pressured Israel and the PA to attend talks, it seems to be a good time to revisit the list of "elephants in the room" that are still being mostly ignored. The list, sadly, has not changed much since I last did this in 2010. Elephant 1: Hamas controls GazaEvery peace plan includes Gaza in a Palestinian Arab state, and none of them has any provision on how to handle the fact that Gaza is a terrorist haven, in much worse...

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