Tag: Palestinians
The Gazan revolt
It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas being mounted by thousands of Gazans have gone almost totally unremarked by the media and supposedly pro-Palestinian supporters in Britain and America.
The protests have...
To explain Zionism, you need to explain Palestinians
The Zionist story has many details, but the basic outlines are the amazing storyline from ancient emancipation to modern rejuvenation. To understand Zionism, one needs to be familiar with its history, leaders and philosophy....
Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning documentary arrested for stoning security forces
Israeli forces on Monday night arrested Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Balal on suspicion of throwing stones at security forces during violent clashes near Susya in Judea, according to Hebrew media reports.
Balal, co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary "No...
Smotrich: Israel advancing plans for Gazan emigration
Israel is actively developing a large-scale emigration plan for Palestinians in Gaza, in coordination from the United States, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday.
Speaking to the Knesset’s Land of Israel Caucus, the Religious...
Jewish Hollywood’s Jewish problem
The 97th annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday night. A bit of mystery was added to all the pageantry. Long before statues were handed out, the anticipation was eclipsed by the glamorous parade...
Trump, Gaza and false analogies
It was interesting to watch the bemused look on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face during a Washington press conference as President Donald Trump floated his harebrained idea of deporting all Gazans. Yet the...
Trump’s Gaza plan backed by majority of Israelis, according to new poll
In a survey of 501 Israeli adults, 68% said they supported U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for relocating the population of the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Monday.
A fifth of respondents in the poll, which...
Let their people go!
So it turns out that quite a few Gazans really do want to leave Gaza. Will Israel’s critics continue to demand that they be held prisoner there?
A front-page article in The New York Times on Feb. 5...
Why Yitzhak Rabin urged moving Gaza’s Arabs to Jordan
U.S. President Donald Trump might be surprised to learn that long before he proposed moving Arabs from Gaza to Jordan, Yitzhak Rabin recommended the exact same thing.
It happened in 1973. Rabin, a former chief...
Trump plan puts an end to the Palestinian state fantasy
Everyone who claims to be an “expert” on the Middle East is sure about one thing: President Donald Trump’s proposal to move Palestinian Arabs out of Gaza either cannot or should not happen. Of course, the...