Daily Archives: May 18, 2020
Israel and Egypt don’t need American peacekeepers in the Sinai
In May 1967, the withdrawal of peacekeepers from the Sinai Peninsula set in motion a series of events that led to war. But those who think such a move in May 2020 would have...
Khamenei: Americans will be expelled from Iraq, Syria
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that the Americans will be pushed out of Iraq and Syria, and that U.S. actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria led to it being hated...
Alaska lawmaker apologizes for comments comparing sticker to Star of David
An Alaska state lawmaker has apologized after comparing a requirement to wear a health-screening sticker to enter the state capitol to the Nazis forcing Jews to wear the yellow Star of David patch during...
Ashkenazi: Trump peace plan a ‘historic opportunity’ for Israel
Newly appointed Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi called U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan a “historic opportunity.”
However, he said on Monday, the U.S. plan would be advanced “responsibly, with full coordination with the...
No new coronavirus cases or deaths reported in Israel in a 12-hour period
For the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Israel on Monday morning reported no new cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths from the disease over the previous...
Palestinians in Nablus burn effigy of Pompeo
Palestinians in the city of Nablus in the West Bank burned an effigy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in protest of his visit to Israel on Wednesday and against the...
The Arab political bankruptcy will linger, unless…
In the wake of the multiple Arab uprisings since the Bouazizi heroic act of self-immolation with fire in Tunisia in 2010, rather than bask in democracy and welfare, the Arab people are enduring insecurity,...
Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?
“There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the whisperings of the irrational.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in Our Time (1952)
In...
Wiesenthal Centre Joins Protest on Spanish Valencia’s BDS Group Hiring to Train Against Bigotry.
“The thought that BDS will be training teachers to combat ‘bigotry’ while instilling the virus of hate, is an exercise in the absurd.”
Paris, 17 May 2020
Starting 8 June, (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) directed against Israel,...
IDF troops thwart terrorist attack in eastern Jerusalem
Three Palestinians were wounded on Friday evening during an attempted attack on an Israeli military post in eastern Jerusalem, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The suspects are being treated by the Red Crescent.
According to the...