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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Lebanese Islamists blaming Israel for Palestinian infighting in Ein al-Hilweh - and prove they hate Palestinians themselves

The head of Hezbollah’s Sharia Committee, Sheikh Muhammad Yazbek, came up with a convoluted logic to explain how Palestinians fighting other Palestinians in the Ein al-Hilweh camp in Lebanon is really Israel's fault. Al-Ahed News reports that "He said the only beneficiary of the Palestinian fighting, in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, is the Zionist enemy, which is working in...

How many American citizens receive UNRWA benefits?

Haaretz writes:More than 12,000 Palestinians with American citizenship residing in the West Bank have entered Israel in the past few weeks, since Israel was forced to ease travel restrictions for them in order to be accepted into the United States visa waiver program.The estimate was provided by Israeli defense sources who believe that the number of Palestinians in the West...

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...

Abbas once again tells Palestinians in Lebanon to go to hell

From Sama News:Today, Monday, President Mahmoud Abbas received a phone call from the head of the Lebanese Phalange Party, Sheikh Sami Gemayel.The President discussed with Gemayel, during the phone call, the unfortunate events that took place in Ain El-Hilweh camp.He stressed support for what the government and the army are doing in Lebanon in order to impose law and order.The...

What would a Palestinian state look like? Look at Ain el-Hilweh, Lebanon

From Naharnet on Sunday:Clashes renewed Sunday in the Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon between the secular Fatah Movement and hardline Islamist groups.TV networks said the fighting resumed after a senior Fatah commander was killed in an ambush.An Islamist had been killed and six people including children had been injured in overnight clashes in the camp.Key...

Iraqi radio to Palestinian Arabs 75 years ago against their return: "Choose death over the Jews!"

The Palestine Post, July 26, 1948, reported:A commentator on the Baghdad Radio strongly criticized the refugees in the Arab States for their complaints about their treatment. Arabs who said they wished they had stayed in Palestine with the Jews should he shot as spies. he urged. "The Jews will make you their slaves, if you return to them." the commentator said. "They...

UNRWA spreads bogus statistics to other NGOs

This is a strange one.The Development Initiatives website used to have very extensive statistics on aid given, both from donors and to which recipients. But its latest report only discusses the top ten recipients, and this year the Palestinians are not listed among the top ten - they had been at or near the top from the early 2000s to at least 2015. But it does mention...

Why is there a "refugee camp" in Jenin to begin with, anyway?

Today's raid by the IDF on terror targets in Jenin is revealing a huge terrorist infrastructure, with large arms caches and command and control centers, in the heart of the Jenin "refugee camp."Why is there a "refugee camp" in Jenin? The city has been under Palestinian Authority control for nearly three decades. The residents live in "Palestine, so they aren't refugees...

Zachary Foster has become a popular anti-Zionist tweeter in recent months, to the point of becoming essentially a troll more interested in scoring points than in facts. (Before he blocked the terrific Adin Haykin, they had a number of entertaining exchanges.)Yet in the past, I have found his scholarly papers to be very interesting and illuminating, and they tell a story...

When the Mufti planned to build settlements on the West Bank

From The New York Times, September 17, 1951:BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 16— Haj Amin el Husseini, the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, and his Arab Higher Committee have started. a move to create a solid belt of Palestine Arab settlements around Israel and prevent-the moving of refugees away from Israel borders.This change of front has come with the present evident collapse of the. former...