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Sunday, February 16, 2025

UNRWA director claims Palestinian refugee status would continue if @UNRWA ends. It is a lie.

Al Jazeera interviewed UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini last week outside the Munich Security Conference, and he told a whopper of a lie:Interviewer: Are there plans being made for a Plan B if if UNRWA wasn't there or is there not a plan B?Lazzarini: Well, if UNRWA cannot operate anymore we will have to go back to the General Assembly. Now I have...

02/15 Links: How Hamas influenced int'l media to not cover emaciated hostages; BBC risks becoming ‘Hamas propaganda mouthpiece’; Hezbollah supporters set UNIFIL vehicles on fire

From Ian: Gil Hoffman: Hoodwinked: How Hamas influenced int'l media to not cover emaciated hostages THE PRO-ISRAEL media watchdog HonestReporting singled out three major media outlets for condemnation: the BBC, CNN, and The Guardian. The BBC reported that there were “concerns over the appearance of hostages on both sides,” equating the innocent civilians kidnapped and starved...

02/14 Links Pt2: A Jewish Moment Without Parallel; Erin Molan: Arnold Roth begs Trump: ‘Avenge my daughter’s death!’; Welcome to Hamassachusetts

From Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: A Jewish Moment Without Parallel In contrast, perhaps the most striking feature of Netanyahu’s trip to Washington is that it featured a meeting with major evangelical leaders, but not with Jewish ones, reflecting the fact that it is millions of non-Jewish Americans who make up the heart of the America-Israel alliance. And this, in turn, reveals...

From Ian: Elliott Abrams: ‘Gaza Shall Be Forsaken’ Trump’s plan tacitly understands another reason Gaza has never developed into the Singapore that Shimon Peres dreamed of, and that is the condition of the society that has developed in Gaza in the past two decades of Hamas control. Economic and political development require both sound government and a culture in which the...

Reuters reports:On Thursday, [EPA Administrator Lee] Zeldin also announced the cancellation of a $50 million grant to a group called the Climate Justice Alliance, citing its pro-Palestinian messaging on its website.The CJA said on Wednesday it would sunset its $50 million UNITE_EJ grantmaking program because it had not been able to access the funding that the Biden EPA had...

In the search for justice, the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan apparently makes house calls.Last month, Mr. Khan visited Syria and shook hands with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's new leader. Why? According to France 24, Khan's office announced that the purpose of the visit was to see how the office of the prosecutor. can offer its partnership in support of the efforts...

Since 2008, with the Doha Agreement, Hezbollah has had the ability to veto any Lebanese government actions, making it essentially the most powerful force in Lebanese politics.Israel's military victory over Hezbollah has now officially changed all that. Hezbollah has lost much of its political legitimacy and power. within the new Lebanese government, formed last Saturday, Hezbollah...

The Free Press reports:Inside the Massachusetts statehouse on Monday, State Representative Simon Cataldo displayed the image of a dollar bill folded into a Star of David in front of a packed audience of teachers, activists, and staffers. They were there to attend a hearing on the state of antisemitism in Massachusetts public schools.“You’d agree that this is antisemitic imagery,...

02/13 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: 'The Jews are central to Western civilisation'; How Australia became such a haven for antisemitism; Nurse who boasted about killing Jews led a 'martyr's prayer'

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Julio Frenk’s Family Fled the Nazis. He Doesn’t Fear Student Hamasniks. Sures was targeted because he is Jewish and has been outspoken in defense of Jewish rights on campus and supported a UCLA resolution to institute political neutrality on university websites, a rule opposed by Hamas’s supporters on campus. One of the strange aspects of the response...

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Bibi the Good Cop? Let’s cut to the chase: How many hostages can Hamas release this Saturday without inviting pitiless retribution? There are 76 remaining in Gaza. Trump’s comments didn’t seem to leave much wiggle room, so Saturday’s noon deadline would mean Hamas must release 76 hostages. Israel’s security cabinet at first simply said it supported...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook and Substack pages.Community Puzzled Over Lack Of Tunnels, Arms Storage Space In Plans For Rebuilt Gaza MosqueJabalia, February 13 - Residents of this rubble-strewn area returning to it after months of fighting between Israel and Hamas voiced surprise and...