Sarit Ahmad may have been a Druze, but that is not certain. In any case, the fact that she filed a complaint against her brothers raises the possibility that this was an honor killing. The likelihood that she was killed over her sexual preference is also an indication of the influence of Sharia over the […]
Homesh and the ‘Two-State Solution’
Homesh is an Israeli outpost that was founded some 20 years ago on the West Bank. It had been built on land that, it later turned out, was owned by a Palestinian Arab. In 2005, when the Israelis pulled out entirely from Gaza, uprooting 25 settlements, they also pulled out of four settlements in the […]
Antony Blinken At AIPAC Deeply Disappoints
On June 5 Antony Blinken spoke at the annual meeting of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group, where some of his remarks, beyond the bromides about America’s commitment to Israel’s security being ironclad, and the unconvincing assurance that Washington will “never allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons” were most disturbing. More on his appearance can be […]
What Can We Conclude From the ‘Ask A Palestinian’ Exercise?
What can we conclude from the dozen interviews with Palestinians in Ramallah, Hebron, and Bethlehem that we posted yesterday? First, of the total of sixteen Palestinians interviewed in twelve separate interviews, only one attempts to name, unaided, a single important Palestinian in the past – that is, someone who lived before 1900. That person, Interviewee #4, […]
Ask A Palestinian
The Canadian-Israeli Corey Gil-Shuster, accompanied by an Arabic-speaking female interpreter, most likely an Israeli Arab, went to several Arab cities in Israel and the West Bank to ask Palestinians he met at random two questions. First, could they name an important Palestinian alive now or in the recent past. Second, could they name a famous […]
Who’s to Blame For the Palestinians’ Plight?
The Palestinians have for decades been presenting themselves as enduring an impoverishment that is without parallel, and that, always and everywhere, must be blamed on Israel. That’s the narrative. But file it under “fiction.” More on their lament, and the blame they fix on Israel, can be found here: “Jordan’s unemployment rate is much worse […]
Mahmoud Abbas’ sour stemwinder at the UN General Assembly
In his sour stemwinder at the UN General Assembly, as part of its observance of Nakba Day on May 15, Mahmoud Abbas likened Israel to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, in its use of the big lie which, if repeated often enough, begins to be believed. What were those “ big lies” told by Israel […]
Let’s Not Repeat ‘Nakba Day’
Mahmoud Abbas, President for Life of the Palestinian Authority, strutted his poor hour upon the stage – twice the time he was allotted – at the UN on May 15, to observe what he and an army of Palestinian publicists want us to call “Nakba Day.” “Nakba” means “catastrophe” in Arabic; the catastrophe in question […]
Rashida Tlaib’s Grandmother
Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) likes to invoke the story of her Palestinian grandmother, who lives on the West Bank, where Tlaib insists she is being oppressed by her Israeli overlords. But it turns out her grandmother’s “oppression” — if indeed she is oppressed — is the result not of anything the Israelis do, but of what […]
Mahmoud Abbas’ ‘Symbolic Victories’ at the UN and the Arab Summit
In his rant at the UN, as part of that disreputable body’s observance of “Nakba Day,” Mahmoud Abbas lit into the Jewish state. Khaled Abu Toameh details his anger with both Israel and the United States, here: “Mahmoud Abbas scores symbolic victories at UN, Arab League,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post, May 26, 2023: […]