Caroline Glick has taken note of the major events affecting Israel in just one week of mid-November. Her analysis is here: “At a diplomatic crossroad, it’s time for Israel to act,” by Caroline B. Glick, Israel Hayom, November 20, 2020: Three diplomatic events transpired this week. Together they describe the crossroads before which Israel now stands […]
Biden excludes Israel from proposed negotiations for new Iran nuclear deal
In an apparent appeal to Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: “There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement.” Apparently indifferent to this appeal, Biden has excluded Israel “from the list of countries he said needed to be included in negotiations with Iran toward a new nuclear agreement.” Two years ago, […]
Germany Subsidizes the Spread of Antisemitism In UN Schools
Ever since the U.S. ceased its support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in August 2018, Germany has been the major donor to the organization, which spreads antisemitism in its schoolbooks. The story is here: “Activists and experts demand German transparency on UNRWA support,” by […]
John Brennan: Killing of Fakhrizadeh ‘An Act of State-Sponsored Terrorism’
While many will agree that the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the “mastermind” of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, has made the world a safer place, and that we owe a debt a gratitude to the Israelis for this latest act of derring-do, designed to further slow Iran’s ability to produce nuclear weapons, John Brennan – who […]
Grandfather of Biden appointee who supported suicide bombings sought peace with Israel
When rational voices among Palestinians were denied the opportunity to speak up Reema Dodin, the Palestinian-American who will serve as a deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, has been raising some concerns all across the US political spectrum. Reema Dodin may sound enthusiastic when she talks about the Palestinian issue, and […]
The Victims of the Jihad Suicide Attacks on Civilians That Biden Appointee Justified
When Reema Dodin, who has been appointed deputy director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs by Joe Biden, in 2002 expressed her deep understanding of, and sympathy for, all those “desperate people” who became suicide bombers, she must have been thinking of such bombings as these that took place in Israel that very […]
Biden Appointee Justified the Cold-Blooded Murder of Innocent Civilians
“But it was so long ago when she said that. Eighteen years! Can’t people change?” Yes, we’ll get to that excuse a bit later on. “Reema Dodin to be first Palestinian-American White House staffer,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, November 25, 2020: Reema Dodin is a Palestinian-American who will serve alongside Shuwanza Goff as a […]
Palestinian Christians caught between growing Islamic movements and inept Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority’s recent decision to restore security coordination with Israel, which was suspended since last May, did not stem from its concern for the Israeli security, nor from its desire to live up to the responsibilities entrusted in it since its establishment in 1994. Mahmoud Abbas, known for his hesitation and inability to make […]
The Three Things of Significance That Happened During Secretary of State Pompeo’s Visit to Israel
Three things of significance happened during Secretary Pompeo’s visit to Israel. First, he went to a settlement in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the “West Bank”), Psagot, where he visited the winery that Israeli farmers and oenologists have managed to create in what was during Jordanian rule a wasteland. He is the first American Secretary of […]
Hamas Digs the Deepest Tunnel Into Israel That It Has Ever Dug, But the IDF Foils It Again
The latest Wile E. Coyote—Road Runner cartoon is now ready for viewing. Wile E. has just dug the deepest tunnel he’s ever dug, from Gaza into Israel, hoping to sneak up on the Road Runner, but the Road Runner yet again has managed to foil him. Beep-beep. The story is here: “Cross border attack tunnel […]
Saudi Arabia denies secret meeting with Netanyahu and Pompeo, says no normalization with Israel without Palestinians
The Saudis are unpredictable. Amid moves toward reform in Saudi Arabia, Turkey has been become more prominent as the exporter of militant Islam worldwide. Yet how much Saudi Arabia has really reformed is an open question: recently the Saudis condemned the “offensive” cartoons of Muhammad in wake of the beheading of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty, […]
Chutzpah: Palestinians Prepare List of Demands For Biden Administration
The Palestinian Arabs sense an opening for them in Biden’s Washington, where they rightly assume they will be personae gratae again. They have already been preparing their laundry list of demands for the Biden Administration, which is discussed here: “PA wants Biden to reverse ‘anti-Palestinian’ decisions,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, November 22, 2020: […]
Iran on Israeli airstrikes in Syria: ‘The Zionist regime is well aware that the era of hit and run is over’
That is, Biden is coming, and so now Israel will lose its greatest ally, and the Islamic Republic of Iran will be saved and newly enabled to finance jihad terrorism worldwide. “Iran vows ‘crushing response’ to Israeli ‘disruption’ of its presence in Syria,” JNS, November 22, 2020 (thanks to Henry): (November 22, 2020 / JNS) […]
Netanyahu: ‘There can be no going back to the previous nuclear agreement’ with Iran, in apparent appeal to Biden
This is virtually certain to fall on deaf ears. The foreign policy establishment will be fully back in the saddle, and that means more empowering of America’s enemies and abandoning of its allies. “Netanyahu warns against reengaging with Iran, in apparent message to Biden,” Times of Israel, November 22, 2020: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in […]
Israel to give three to four million coronavirus vaccines to the ‘Palestinians’
Worst apartheid regime ever. Will this gesture of good will stop the “Palestinians” from disseminating genocidal rhetoric and glorifying those who murder Israeli civilians? Of course not. The jihad imperative continues regardless of what the kuffar do. “Israel to Procure, Transfer Millions of COVID-19 Vaccines to Palestinians,” i24 News, November 22, 2020: i24 News – […]
PA Prime Minister Shtayyeh Defends ‘Pay-For-Slay’ Policy
Mohammed Shtayyeh offers a collection of lies – “war is deceit,” after all – about the PA’s Pay-For-Slay policy, that Maurice Hirsch refutes here: “Damn Lies and the Palestinian Authority’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’ Policy,” JNS, November 20, 2020: Richard Engel of the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious and influential think tank, held an exclusive webinar on […]
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
As is well known, Israel is a multi-ethnic state, where Arab citizens have equal civil, religious, and political rights as Jews. This has not stopped others from accusing Israel of practicing “apartheid.” Israeli spokesmen then point out that in Israel, Arabs serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, go abroad as diplomats for […]
Palestinians End Temper Tantrum, Resume Ties with Israel
The Palestinians have decided to renew the ties they broke with Israel last May, when Jerusalem announced its plans to extend its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank. Since that plan was not executed, and apparently will not be, the Palestinians – that is, the PA, not Hamas – are finally ready to resume […]
Pakistani journalist says Saudi Arabia is pressuring Pakistan to recognize Israel
There could be a surprise, amid newly forming global and regional alliances, but it is extremely unlikely. In fact, it would be a fool’s errand to expect Pakistan even to entertain the possibility of recognizing Israel. According to Haaretz: Pakistan’s government achieved a new world record this week: in gaslighting. The subject: persistent rumors that […]
Obama Accuses Netanyahu of ‘Orchestrating’ A Campaign Against Him
As is well known, the most anti-Israel of our Presidents is Jimmy Carter, the perennially grinning author of Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which contains such tossed-off malevolence as this: “Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and […]