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Daily Archives: February 11, 2019

Focal issue of GAO report on PA/UNRWA textbooks: The US State Department misled the...

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State reported to Congress that it had developed alternative materials to the anti-semitic and pro-incitement PA school curriculum used by UNRWA. In the GAO report, State cannot explain why these existing alternative materials were never...
Qatar Armed Forces members convoy to a simulated terrorist cell to conduct a joint counter-terrorism exercise with U.S. military members and other partner nations in Zikrit, Qatar, on April 28, 2013. Credit: Staff Sgt. Kenneth Holston via Wikimedia Commons.

Coming to grips with the truth about Qatar

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This week the national press has continued to keep the heat on Saudi Arabia as more details about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have made it clear that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons.

An alliance between U.S. and British leftists?

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The week opened with a loose alliance formed between AOC, as the Bronx/Queens congresswoman is known, and Britain’s Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. By Friday, a predictable rumor emerged that a Jewish Labour member...

Schwinging start to the Jewish Film Festival

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Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock… If you’re a jazz fan, you know these names. They are the stars shining in the jazzosphere of Blue Note Records. And...
A Palestinian woman stands in front of UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City holding a refugee ration card during a protest demanding that the U.N. agency resume aid, April 8, 2013. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.

New report highlights how UN gives singular treatment to Palestinian refugees

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Uri Akavia, a researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum, recently published a new paper titled “Is UNRWA’s hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique?” In it, of course, he details the origins of the issue since...
A road in the West Bank. Credit: Daniel Ventura/Wikimedia Commons.

Source: US Mideast peace plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, Israeli towns in West Bank

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The United States is expected to recognize a Palestinian state with its capital in eastern Jerusalem as part of its highly anticipated peace plan to solve the 70-year-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an informed source hearing...

Mi Kaza Es Israel …

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Kon el avatiah (sandia) o kon el falafel, I Yoram Gaon ke me muero por el No puedo bivir leshos del Kotel I no importa Tel Aviv o Beit El Komo no amar al norte la Galil vedre...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Tel Aviv. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Netanyahu to meet Pence, Pompeo in Warsaw for Mideast summit

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at this week’s summit in Warsaw concerning the Middle East. At the beginning...
Jettisoned Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid Party, speaks during a farewell party on Dec. 4 in his honor at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem. Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni were dismissed from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition on Dec. 2, 2017. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Yesh Atid leader looked into merger with Kahlon’s Kulanu

Yesh Atid still reportedly wants to run on a joint ticket with Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience Party in the April 9 Knesset election, but party leader Yair Lapid has also reportedly prepared an alternative...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Iran's Kermanshah Province in November 2017. Credit: Khamenei.ir via Wikimedia Commons.

Iran’s Khamenei: ‘Death to America means death to Trump, Bolton and Pompeo’

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On Feb. 8, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a speech on the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Revolution. The speech aired on Channel 1, Iranian TV. Khamenei said that the Americans are the epitome of evil and that...