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Daily Archives: March 25, 2019

Removing funds from Hamas in order to fund Hamas through UNRWA

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Jack Rosen, head of the AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS, authors an opinion piece in the JPOST of March 24, 2019, https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Qatars-break-with-Hamas-shakes-up-Mideast-politics-584379, which asserts that QATAR broken off with Hamas and that it redirects its funds through UNRWA Rosen...

The split between Israeli and U.S. Jews

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Let’s leave the Israeli election to continue brewing. The voting is in two more weeks. Nastiness rampant. Currently in the air are comments about US Jews. Where are they? What’s their interest in Israel? That we’ve...

AIPAC’s gift from Hamas

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This year, AIPAC awarded an official on-stage presence to a recognized representative of the almost half a million Jews currently residing in the areas of the heartland of the Jewish national homeland, Judea and Samaria. Not...
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed declaration of U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights on March 25, 2019 at the White House. Credit: CNN Screenshot.

Spearheaded by Trump, US officially recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan

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On Monday, the United States officially recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, adding another accomplishment for an administration that has been lauded for its pro-Israel agenda that includes recognizing Jerusalem as the capital...
Israel Defense Forces and tanks gather near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Nov. 13, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

IDF positions hundreds of soldiers in Gaza border, calls up limited reserves

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Reservists for air-defense units and two additional brigades of Israel Defense Forces were called to the Gaza border region following the launch of a long-range missile from Gaza, which destroyed a residential building and injured seven...
Tzfat mayoral candidate Ilan Shohat casts his ballot at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, on Oct. 30, 2018, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat. Credit: David Cohen/Flash90.

Poll reports that 57 percent of Israelis say they will definitely vote in April...

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There is an inherent gap between the results of Israeli political polls and the upcoming elections. While polls use phone calls or the Internet to ask respondents how they plan to vote, on April...
Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă addresses the 2019 AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. Credit: Screenshot.

At AIPAC conference, Romania announces goal of moving embassy to Jerusalem

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Following the United States and Guatemala’s lead, Romania’s prime minister announced at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference on Sunday her intention to move the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. “I,...
File photo: Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Ambassador Dermer to AIPAC: Israel will be most important ally for US in the...

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Addressing 18,000 attendees at the AIPAC policy conference, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer stated he believes that Israel continues to have strong bipartisan support in the United States. He added that supporting...
Ilhan Omar speaking at a VoteRunLead training. Credit: Zoe Griffing Heller via Wikimedia Commons.

Wiesenthal center asks Omar to condemn district imam who spoke on ‘Zio’ agenda

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Simon Wiesenthal Center associate dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to condemn an imam in her district who preached against a “Zio-Crusader agenda” in a recent sermon. The Middle East Media Research Institute...

Rafi Eitan, founder of Israeli intelligence community, passes away at 92

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Former top Mossad spy Rafi Eitan, who led the team that captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and was the personal handler of Jonathan Pollard, died on Saturday at the age of 92. Eitan, who...