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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Cash strapped PA spent $100K at 5-star hotel in Gaza

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Felesteen reports that last weekend PA prime minister Rami Hamdallah spent two days in Gaza along with an entourage - and that they weren&...

Palestinians accuse religious Jews of uprooting olive trees - on Shabbat

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From Ma'an : Israeli settlers on Saturday destroyed more than 1,000 olive trees near the village of al-Shuyukh north of Hebron, in th...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

Virginia State Bar boycotts Israel

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All members of the Virginian State Bar received this email early this morning: Dear Fellow Members of the Virginia State Bar, Certain m...

03/28 Links: We don't need another failure; Prosor: 'Break silence' on minority persecution in ME

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From Ian: Ben-Dror Yemini: We don't need another failure Given the upheaval in the Arab world, Obama needs to ask himself why he thi...
Friday, March 27, 2015

03/27 Links Pt2: UN Bookshop stocks anti-Semitic books; The J Street Challenge - Full Film

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From Ian: UN Watch: World body urged to investigate anti-Jewish books in U.N. Bookshop UN Watch is deeply concerned by the highly suspec...

"Methuselah" date palm from 2000 year old seed has a "child"

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When Methuselah was very young* From National Geographic : A male date palm tree named Methuselah that sprouted from a 2,000-year-old ...

Do states really have to be contiguous?

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Whenever anyone tells you that territorial contiguity is a requirement for viability of a governed area, you can do one of two things: 1) ...

03/27 Links Pt1: Managing Obama’s war against Israel; Reassessing the Two State Solution

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From Ian: Caroline Glick: Managing Obama’s war against Israel On Wednesday, the Jerusalem Municipality announced it is shelving plans to...

Yes, @Amnesty, Hamas used human shields by EVERY definition

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The Amnesty report I mentioned yesterday referenced the IDF document "Violations of the Law of Armed Conflict, War Crimes, andCrimes Ag...

J-Street speaker calls for destruction of Israel - to applause (update)

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Here is Marcia Freedman, in a J-Street panel discussion on Liberal Zionism and sitting next to Peter Beinart, describing how she believes th...

Arab allies reportedly killing civilians in Yemen airstrikes

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From AFP : At least 39 civilians have been killed in more than 24 hours of Saudi-led air strikes against Shiite rebels in Yemen, health...
Thursday, March 26, 2015

Walking down J-Street (part 4)

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The final report from Messy57 ( (parts  1 ,  2 , 3 ) On the last day of the conference, I started out with a panel on “What’s Next for the ...

03/26 Links Pt2: PA TV: Goal is "to boycott Israeli products and fight the Jews, kill them"

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From Ian: Brainwashed in Berlin At a book opening in Jerusalem to promote his recently translated Catch the Jew, Tuvia Tenenbom spoke ab...

Obama's contempt offensive (Vic Rosenthal)

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Vic Rosenthal's weekly column: Under Mr. Obama, friends are enemies, denial is wisdom, capitulation is victory — Bret S...

White House caving to Iran in negotiations, again (UPDATE: And again)

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From the WSJ: Talks over Iran’s nuclear program have hit a stumbling block a week before a key deadline because Tehran has failed to coope...