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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Keeping Them Out: "It Begins Every Time We Wake Up Alive" (Judean Rose)

Residents of Efrat Concerned for their security say yes to only Jewish and foreign workers Interview with Stephanie Treger Stephanie Treger is determined to keep her family safe by keeping Arabs without Israeli citizenship out of Efrat where she lives. Here in Efrat, in the heart of Judea, we know what happened on October 7th. Regular Gazans stampeded that...

Apartheid! Israeli firefighter dies, another seriously injured trying to rescue an illegal Palestinian worker who fell into a pit

Another story of how little Israel cares about Palestinian lives:Two people were killed and a third was in critical condition after falling into a pit in the northern village of Deir al-Asad on Sunday.Two of the men were firefighters who fell into the hole during an attempt to extract the third, a Palestinian laborer who had earlier plunged inside and lost consciousness.The...

The new wave of terror may be hurting the Palestinian economy

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics published its labor report for the second quarter, and it shows that the number of Palestinians working in Israel and the settlements increased to 164,000 from 153,000 in the first quarter.However, this is not the highest number for Palestinians working for Israelis. It reversed a year-long trend of fewer Palestinians working for...

Jordan's unemployment rate is much worse than in PA-controlled areas

Palestinians have it easy. Whenever there is any statistic announced that shows that life for them isn't perfect, they have someone to blame: Israel. So, for example, when there are some people in Gaza who are food insecure, it must be Israel's fault - even though it is much worse in neighboring Egypt, and even though Israel does not limit food into Gaza at all....

Amnesty's latest anti-Israel report's scope and methodology proves its bias was intended from the outset (update)

Amnesty just released its latest anti-Israel report, "Automated Apartheid: How facial recognition fragments, segregates and controls Palestinians in the OPT."The 82 page report was conceived from the start to be biased against Israel. This can be seen from just the introduction.By Checkpoint 56 in H2, a towering barrier features two turnstiles, and at least 24 cameras on the outside....

Israel considering increasing number of work permits from Gaza. News media silent.

Palestinian site Amad reports:Hebrew sources announced, on Sunday evening, that Israel is considering increasing the number of work permits from the Gaza Strip, and the number of regular work permits may reach about fifty thousand in the coming months.An informed Israeli security source indicated that the number could be increased as well, and this contributes to improving...

World Council of Churches is upset when Israel makes life EASIER for Palestinians

In 2018, the World Council of Churches website wrote about how arduous the journey through checkpoints was for Palestinians going to Israel to work or find jobs:At 4.45, the Qalandiya checkpoint is already crowded, as thousands upon thousands of Palestinians try to make their way to Jerusalem each day.Qalandiya is the main checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem,...

In the midst of terror wave, Israel making it EASIER for Palestinians to enter Israel. Good luck finding the media reporting this.

Here's a story you won't read anywhere else - because it does not fit the Narrative.There is a problem with Palestinian workers in Israel. In order to find and get jobs, they often resort to (Arab) brokers who take advantage of them, take a cut of their salary and treat the workers as subcontractors which means that they do not get basic employment benefits and protections. Israel...

You can learn a lot from a single photo of a school in Gaza

On Sunday, the Acre Secondary Girls School in Khan Younis, Gaza, along with many other schools, hosted a Palestinian official over video link who spoke about the evils of normalization and the necessity of boycotting the "Zionist entity."Afterwards the girls held up signs against normalization for their Facebook page.Here's one of the photos.Let's look at this in more...

12/08 Links Pt1: Lies, libels and the justification of terror; 12% of Gazans Have Fled Gaza Since Hamas Took Over; The UN envoy to Hamas; Far-Left Groups Accused of Campaign to Delegitimize IDF Soldiers

From Ian: Lies, libels and the justification of terror Nov. 29 marked the 75th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 181, which called for the creation of two states, a Jewish state of Israel and an Arab state of Palestine. The Jewish community accepted those terms, and declared the State of Israel, while the Arab community refused, and launched a war that they then lost....

The best insurance against a third intifada: 19% of Palestinian labor market employed by Israelis

The second quarter Palestinian labor statistics show that there are 903,000 Palestinians working in the West Bank and Gaza, 182,000 who work in Israel and 29,000 who work in the settlements.This means that 18.9% of Palestinians are employed directly by Israelis. This is, by far, the highest percentage of Palestinians working for Israelis in at least ten years, and possibly...

Hamas Understands Israel Has A Means Of Deterrence That May Be Even Stronger Than Iron Dome (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosLast week, Israel announced plans to build an industrial zone next to Gaza, creating thousands of new jobs for Palestinian Arabs. This news comes at a time when the number of Palestinian Arabs working in Israel has been increasing.In an article for The Algemeiner, Elder of Ziyon notes data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicating...

The number of Palestinians working in Israel and settlements skyrocketed in the first quarter

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that the number of Palestinian workers in Israel and working in Israeli settlements increased by a huge amount in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the previous quarter.The increase was so large that it more than made up for the decrease of people employed in Palestinian-controlled areas.The number of Palestinian workers...