The Peace Now Litmus Test

On Friday, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez changed her mind about participating  in an event commemorating former prime minster Yitzhak Rabin on the 25th anniversary of his assassination.She made her decision after backlash from "pro-Palestinian" activists, who told her that Rabin was a monster and that Palestinians are worse off after Oslo than before.The...

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Peace Now upset at idea of Israel holding onto ancient Jewish Mount of Olives cemetery

From Peace Now: On Sunday (24/4/17), the Jerusalem Municipality deposited for public review a special plan (no. 470484) for the confiscation of 1,300 square meters in the Jewish cemetery in the Mount of Olives, adjacent to the Ras El-Amud mosque. The plan, initiated by the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA), is meant to allow the confiscation of parcel no. 10 in bloc...

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Two tweets that show Americans for Peace Now is clueless

I was struck by these two consecutive tweets by Americans for Peace Now's Lara Friedman. The first: Here is what the referenced Haaretz article says: According to the developing formulation, a court will be able to order the platform to remove any content immediately, if it is a post that deals with terror or poses real danger to the security of the state, the...

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How a single settlement apartment can be counted EIGHT TIMES by the media

In the Washington Post, Jimmy Carter wrote another of his ridiculous op-eds where he describes Hamas as the greatest thing since peanut butter while Israel is unequivocally evil. Others have ripped it apart, but I want to concentrate on one of his factoids: During the previous nine months of negotiation, 14,000 new Israeli settlement units were approved, more than 3,000...

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