In 1950, the government of Jordan, having seized that part of “Palestine” that had been known in the Western world for 3,000 years as “Judea” and “Samaria,” wanted to efface, as best it could, the Jewish connection to that land. It decided that those areas would from now on be known as “the West […]
A Short Course for the Biden Administration on Israel’s Claim Under International Law to the ‘Occupied Territories’
The Biden Administration seems to think that the way to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians is to push Israel back within what it describes as the “1967 lines,” which is a more acceptable way of saying “the 1949 armistice lines.” Those lines were not recognized borders; they merely reflected where the respective armies, […]
Biden State Department says it’s a ‘historical fact’ that Israel occupied the ‘Palestinian Territories’ in 1967
The Biden State Department doesn’t know, or doesn’t want you to know, that the “West Bank” and Gaza were part of the original Mandate for Palestine, set aside for a Jewish national home. Not only that, but between 1949 and 1967, when they were under Jordanian and Egyptian rule, nothing was ever said about how […]
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister condemns Pompeo’s planned visit to ‘settlement’ as ‘dangerous precedent’
The peace process is a delusion. The Palestinian leadership is a jihadist operation which seeks a one-state solution, that is, a Palestinian state in which no Jews live. Anything that offends jihadists is regarded as an unacceptable provocation. The Palestinian National Charter states: Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis peace in the Middle […]
Palestinian Authority arresting Palestinians for endorsing Israel’s assertion of sovereignty
According to the establishment media, Israel is racist and oppressive to Palestinians. The UN aids in the dissemination of anti-Israel propaganda. However, there are many Palestinians who openly say that they are much happier in Israel, better treated and more respected than they are under the Palestinian Authority. I, too, have listened to many Palestinian […]
Palestinian leaders threaten statehood over all of West Bank and Gaza with Jerusalem as capital
The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohammad Shtayyeh, “described the possible step pledged by the Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, as an ‘existential threat’ to a decades-long international effort for Israelis and Palestinians to reach an agreement that establishes two states side by side.” Now, he wants Israel “to ‘feel the heat’ over its plans […]
Those territories are not “occupied,” and there is no “West Bank” and no “Palestine”
This article makes supremely important points that are all too often overlooked. Find out how and why the “Palestinians” were invented in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. “Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine,’” by Mitchell Bard, Algemeiner, December 5, 2019: I have written before about the importance of […]
Judea and Samaria: Muslims murder 17-year-old girl, seriously injure her father and brother with explosive device
Yes, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have said nothing. “One dead, two wounded from explosive device in West Bank,” by Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post, August 23 2019: A teenage girl was killed and her father and brother were seriously injured on Friday in an explosion near a natural spring near the Israeli settlement of Dolev […]
Canada: Federal court rules that “settlement wines cannot be labeled ‘Made in Israel’”
The Palestinian Jihad against Israel aims to delegitimize the Jewish state and ultimately obliterate it. Now comes word that pro-Palestinian activists are “cheering” a decision by Canadian federal court judge Anne L. Mactavish, in which she reinforced the fiction that Israel as an occupying State and a thief of Palestinian land. Mactavish “ruled that wines […]
The waBenzi of the West Bank and Gaza (Part 2)
No, it’s not just aid money that they steal. The Palestinian waBenzi have a finger in every pie. Hamas leaders control the tunnels from Gaza to Egypt (and to a lesser extent, from Gaza to Israel), and treat them as their private property, charging exorbitantly for their use. “Elad [he Israeli scholar who has […]