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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Arabs freak over Jews singing Hatikva on Temple Mount

Arab media is upset over some Jews singing the Israeli national anthem while visiting the Temple Mount: The articles say they were singing it "loudly" but it is apparent that the main singer has his mouth very close to the microphone, and is not singing loudly at all. Certainly the guards do not seem fazed. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message...

From Ian: The Palestinians' Three No's: What They Mean When Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad talk about "paying a political price," they are referring to demands that the Palestinian terrorist groups lay down their weapons, halt terrorist attacks on Israel, and abandon their dream of eliminating Israel. These are terms, of course, to which no Palestinian terrorist group...

Continuing from last time, a BDS debate involving South Africa usually follows certain predictable patterns. BDS advocates claim that those involved in the struggle to topple Apartheid in SA see the Arab-Israeli conflict in the same terms with Israelis serving as stand-ins for the Boers. Various names are dropped, but since most Americans are unfamiliar with the...

Journalist Joe Truzmah tweets this video: He also tweeted this photo of a child setting fire to a tire wedged at the fence, meant to weaken it: Hamas operatives stay hundreds of yards behind the fence and send kids (and other civilians) with the wirecutters and tires to go to the fence - and hopefully be shot by the IDF so they can claim Israel kills innocent kids. It...

Lebanon's acting Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil reveals some hypocrisy that the world happily accepts. In Al Monitor (quoted in The Daily Star): Caretaker Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said that the U.S.’s decision to cut UNRWA funding will be discussed during meetings at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, and that he didn’t oppose conditioned peace with Israel. In...

09/25 Links: At UN, Trump hails Israel, urges world to isolate Iran, which sows ‘destruction’; Israel-Russia crisis artificial, driven by anti-Semitism; Tamimi: Our goal is to remove Israel

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Mahmoud Abbas Should Be Barred from Entering the U.S. The U.S. government should bar Palestinian Authority Chairman and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas from entering the United States on Wednesday for the opening of the United Nations. In the days that have passed since Queens, New York, native and dual U.S.-Israeli citizen...

Chag Sameach!

I will not be posting anything until Tuesday night at least because of the Sukkot holiday. Have a great cha...

The people arguing against @UNRWA cuts in Jordan know that Jordan is Palestine - and a Palestinian state is bad news

Since the US stopped funding UNRWA, there have been articles about how this is bd for Jordan. The Christian Science Monitor, WSJ and others are emphasizing how any loss of UNRWA services may destabilize Jordan. Let's think about this. If there is a legitimate fear of Jordan being destabilized from UNRWA cuts, that means that Palestinians in Jordan would revolt over the loss of their free benefits and being forced to be treated like all other...

From Ian: IDF rejects Moscow claim of ‘criminal negligence,’ vows to keep targeting Iran The Israeli military on Sunday rejected the Russian defense ministry’s claim that it was entirely to blame for the downing of a Russian spy plane by Syrian air defenses during an Israeli strike last week, reiterating that Syria was at fault. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces maintained...

Avi Abelow Picks up the Torch Michael Lumish Abelow on left, Fuld on right with two other gentlemen I think that it may be fair to say that few were wounded more by the murder of Ari Fuld -- outside of his family -- than was Israeli-American social media personality, Avi Abelow. I like Avi because he has both strength and joy. He analyzes...

The headline seems strangely familiar: Russia: Israel 'entirely to blame' for loss of military plane near Syria Somehow, Syria shots down a Russian plane and Israel is the only party to blame? This fits a pattern. Sabra and Shatila. Blaming Israel for Palestinians abusing their wives. Blaming Israel for US police brutality. Somehow, it is always the Jews'...

From "Country cooperation strategy for WHO and the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2017–2020": Palestinian public finances have depended on foreign aid to a significant extent over the past decade, albeit marked by large fluctuations and unpredictability. Despite increasing needs, aid for Palestine has declined, dropping 30% in 2015 from the previous year, resulting in...

09/22 Links: Soviet-style antisemitism funded by UK taxpayers; Iran blames Israel, US for military parade attack as death toll climbs to 29; Gal Gadot in Simpson cameo appearance

From Ian: Soviet-style antisemitism funded by UK taxpayers It took 16 years to get the UN to expunge the infamous 1975 ‘Zionism Equals Racism” Resolution. IHRA states that it’s antisemitic to claim ‘that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor’. Mr Alsaraf and Ms Murphy did nothing to try to stop the meeting – not at the start and not later on, when antisemitism...

09/21 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The blood of slain Israelis stains many hands; For some Arabs, Ahed Tamimi is no longer an 'icon'; Ben Shapiro: Sukkot’s Blueprint for a New Home

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The blood of slain Israelis stains many hands It’s often claimed by Western enemies of Israel that the military actions of the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas in Gaza are disproportionate because such actions kill Arabs while Hamas attacks don’t kill Israelis. That’s apparently why the Western media ignore the thousands of rockets and aerial...

Peter Beinart shows off his 1990s-era thinking in the Forward, which is eager to publish him. Essentially every paragraph betrays his bias, his inability to grasp reality, and his wishful thinking: Since the 1970s, and certainly since Bill Clinton got Yitzhak Rabin and Yaser Arafat to shake hands on the White House lawn at the beginning of the Oslo Peace Process in 1993,...