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Sunday, September 03, 2023

Book review: "(In)sights: Thirty Years of Peacemaking in the Oslo Process" by Gidi Grinstein

Diplomacy and peacemaking is not a smooth process. It requires a huge amount of preparation, planning and flexibility. It is always illuminating to look behind the scenes of the Oslo process. Gidi Grinstein, the youngest person at Camp David in 2000, is releasing his account of the events that he witnessed as well as his opinions of what to do moving forward to mark the...

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,...

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...

German schoolbooks biased against Israel

What do you do when your hate becomes socially unacceptable?Find an alternative that people won't blame you for!From TheJC:Textbooks in German schools display a strong political bias against Israel, according to a new report.It reveals a disturbing trend of blaming Israel for the conflict with the Palestinians.And it says teachers in German schools tend to shy away from discussing...

The @NYTimes is whitewashing Muslim desecrations on the Temple Mount

Raja Abdulrahim wrote an article in today's New York Times that is ostensibly about how difficult Israel is making it for Muslim artisans to repair damage from clashes on the Temple Mount.From start to finish, the article is a very sophisticated piece of anti-Israel propaganda. The propaganda begins in the headline:According to the headline, the "Al Aqsa Mosque" and the...

Intifada Intel: What the IDF Knew in July 2000 (Judean Rose)

Itamar Ben Gvir caused a furor when he visited the Temple Mount back in January. But not really. All the umbrage regarding his “provocation”—walking while Jewish—was manufactured by bored reporters who have nothing else to write about; by left-wing reporters who lust to smear Israel in print; by Hamas, the PA, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, and yes, the United States...

What is the rational response to irrational threats by Palestinians?

Leaders of Palestinian terror groups, and the PA government, are making threats in response to Itamar Ben-Gvir's plan to visit the Temple Mount.Islamic Jihad leader Daoud Shehab said such a visit would be a "declaration of war." Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Hussein Al-Sheikh, called for a "Palestinian, Arab and international" response.Hamas said...

Another day, another batch of lies by UN's Francesca Albanese

The "UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Palestinian Territories" has shown, yet again, how little she cares about the truth - and about Jewish lives - in this Twitter thread about the lung cancer death of arch-terrorist Nasir Abu Hmeid (Hamid).Abu Hamid, Palestinian refugee from Al-Amar Camp, West Bank, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002, for alleged involvement in...

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...

A small example of how academic Jewish studies has been taken over by anti-Zionist politics

Recently, Joshua Karlip wrote in Commentary about how Jewish studies in American academia have been taken over by a wokeism that marginalizes and denigrates Jews:In December 2020, I participated in a Zoom panel at the annual Association for Jewish Studies Conference that discussed the state of the field of Jewish historiography over the past two decades. One participant noted...

Let's list the lies in Abbas' UN speech (part 1)

As he does every year, Mahmoud Abbas gave an anti-Israel speech to the UN. And as with every other one on record, it was filled with lies.Here are some of them, based on the official speech (he sometimes ad libs outside the speech, often betraying more antisemitism...)I speak to you on behalf of more than fourteen million Palestinian people, whose parents and grandparents...

One of the earliest uses of "Israeli apartheid" was a book that defended suicide bombings of Jews

During the height of the second intifada, this book was published:Yes, it was positioning the terror war against Israeli civilians as "resisting Israel's aprtheid."This was written shortly before the infamous antisemitic Durban conference where the 'apartheid" slur gained currency.From the forward:You get that? A demand to stop violence is a recipe for more violence.Because...