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Thursday, April 26, 2018

Still 80% of Gazans killed in border riots linked to terror groups

A week ago I linked to the Terrorism Info Center analysis that showed that 80% of the first 32 people killed on the Gaza border in the "Great Return March" were not innocent civilians but were linked to terror groups, with many of them known to be terrorists themselves. The report has been updated ahead of tomorrow's riots, and the percentage remains the same: 80% of the dead are linked to terror groups: The Hamas-controlled ministry of health...

From Ian: Malaysian hit said part of broad Mossad op against Hamas global training efforts Palestinian engineer Fadi al-Batsh’s assassination in Malaysia on April 21 was part of a broader Mossad campaign against Hamas efforts to send experts abroad for technical training and weapons acquisitions, The New York Times reported Wednesday night. The report was based on multiple...

I’ve heard that people who are bipolar often go off their medication because, although the lows of depression are difficult and sometimes even dangerous, the highs they experience are so thrilling, they don’t want to give them up for the sake of being normal. The highs open the door to genius, to creativity, to the sublime. And it is impossible to attain the high,...

Meirav Arlosoroff writes in The Marker (Haaretz' economic magazine) that Bibi Netanyahu is a racist. But....she also documents that he also has done far more for the Arab sector in Israel than anyone else. She admits she's confused. She says that Netanyahu speaks in a racist way (in her example, by specifically talking about law enforcement in his remarks about Arab society,...

From the UN OCHA-OPT: Since 30 March 2018, the Gaza Strip has witnessed a significant increase in Palestinian casualties in the context of mass demonstrations taking place along Israel’s perimeter fence with Gaza. The demonstrations have occurred as part of the ‘Great March of Return’, a series of mass protests, expected to continue up to 15 May. The large number of casualties...

04/25 Links Pt2: Can We Talk About Rape In The Holocaust Yet?; Why are we so accepting of Islamic Jew-Hatred in the West?; Natalie Portman for the Jane Fonda Award

From Ian: Can We Talk About Rape In The Holocaust Yet? They used to tell young Orthodox Jewish girls a story – they may still – about 93 Bais Yaakov girls who were selected by the Nazis to be their sex slaves and put in an apartment full of beds. And when the Nazis arrived to claim their plunder, they found 93 corpses. 93 Bais Yaakov girls had chosen death rather than sexual...

According to journalist Yanki Farber, Christian missionary Hananya Naftali has just been appointed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new deputy media advisor. This presumably means that Naftali will be managing or directing the prime minister’s social media accounts. As the Israeli PM has a significant online presence, this would seem to be a position of some...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. The 1967 Lines Are Sacrosanct Unless Palestinians Violate Them By Stan Dartkafuhl, legal scholar The position of the international community on the subject of the 1949 armistice lines between Israel and Jordan, and between Israel and Egypt, has...

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Europe Wants Unity on Iran but Undermines Trump on Jerusalem While there is nothing new today about the EU’s practice of using the unchecked power of Israel’s Supreme Court, it is remarkable that they are exploiting it to try to subvert U.S. foreign policy. As Prof. Eugene Kontorvich from Northwestern University, who directs the International Law...

Haaretz reports that Joe Biden will be the featured speaker at a fundraiser for coexistence program "Seeds of Peace": Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will speak next month at a gala dinner for Seeds of Peace, an international educational organization famous for promoting co-existence between Israeli and Palestinian teenagers. The organization will be celebrating...

Jordan Times reports: The Jordanian Construction Contractors Association (JCCA) will not compete for any tenders floated by the government to build a gas pipeline to bring gas from Israel into the Kingdom, Ahmad Yacoub, the syndicate’s president, said on Tuesday. The association, which groups some 3,000 construction contractors firms, sent letters to its members...

Last week, a petition was started in France, signed by major personalities like Philippe Val , the former director of "Charlie Hebdo", the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy, three former prime ministers, the former mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe, Gerard Depardieu, Charles Aznavour, Bernard-Henri Lévy and many other famous personalities. In...

04/24 Links Pt2: How Israel Won Over The Syrian People; Carter Center Sued for Providing Support to Terrorists; NYTs Issues ‘Correction of The Year’ on Pay-To-Slay

From Ian: How Israel Won Over The Syrian People In a popular Syrian news group on Facebook, a Syrian activist recently shared a video of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager in jail for slapping an Israeli soldier. Across the world, Tamimi has become a cause celebré, a symbol of the Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation. But when the activist posted the Amnesty International...

NBC reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has denounced a “different type of anti-Semitism” that has taken root in her country. She also vowed to do everything possible to ensure the safety of Jews in Germany. “We have refugees now, for example, or people of Arab origin, who bring a different type of anti-Semitism into the country,” Merkel said in an interview with...

The editor of Ma'an, Dr. Nasser al Laham, considered a moderate, independent publication, has gone completely off the rails in his editorial about Israel's 70th birthday. Just the first paragraph could keep psychiatrists busy for months: Thousands of statements made by the leaders of the Zionist movements these days can be summed up in one sentence: "Israel will not...