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The UN and Middle East as satire
Sometimes when reading the news one gets the strong feeling that truth is stranger than fiction, that we are living through a satire, for surely what we are reading cannot possibly be true. Alas, the...
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UNESCO can’t admit that Jews have a connection to Israel
This post has been sitting half-written in draft form for days, but the kidnapping of the three boys has taken all my attention. Still, the world continues to turn, and with it the usual anti-Israel...
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#BringBackOurBoys – and spare me your farshtinkener condemnations
It’s been 6 days since the three teenage students, Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel and Gil-Ad Shayer, were kidnapped on their way home from school last Thursday night and still there has been not a word...
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Good News Friday
Because of the terrible news of the teenagers’ kidnapping which has dominated the news this week, I had considered skipping this week’s Good News Friday installment. As I am sure you can understand, I...
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Chutzpah of the week
This post might be the start of an occasional (or even regular) series, but certainly there is no shortage of candidates for the Chutzpah of the Week award. This week we go for a two-fer. Or even a...
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Anti-semitism and Anti-Israelism: First the bad news, then the (almost) good
The news in recent days has been full of items about antisemitic acts, attitudes and outbursts committed around the world. It is getting to be exceedingly depressing to read a newspaper or simply...
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Israel’s adventures in UN-Wonderland
My above title is intended to be a pun – the UN is no wonderland, the exact opposite in fact. And in parallel, the way the UN behaves towards Israel is so reminiscent of the Queen of Hearts’ words that...
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The UN – the source of the legal pogrom against Israel
As we look about the Middle East in horror at the barbarity committed by Islamists of all stripes, we can but gape in astonishment at the focus of the UN on Israel’s alleged war crimes – which, even if...
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Abbas slanders Israel in incendiary UN speech, angering Israel and the US
It’s a New Year but at the UN it’s the same old same old. At the annual General Assembly opening speeches Palestinian Authority (unelected) “President” Mahmoud Abbas made an incendiary speech against...
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Netanyahu’s UN speech: no new points, disagreement from the US
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu delivered his speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday evening, and the verdicts are varied. You can read the full transcript here. He covered all the main points...
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Countering foreign interference in Israel’s sovereignty
The Western world, including countries, NGOs, and institutions like the EU and the UN, seem to forget that they no longer rule empires and control vassal states around the world, for they have made it...
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Middle East news catch-up: Iran, Jerusalem, the UN and the Palestinians
Here is a (very) short roundup of news that deserves some attention, but which I missed since I was computerless for a couple of days. As Pete mentioned in his comment on the previous post, Barack...
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The world’s illogical rush to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian State
Following the brouhaha over Israel’s declaration of the country as “the Jewish State“, and the international and domestic opposition to such a law, despite the Prime Minister’s vow to uphold democracy...
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UNRWA tries to silence free speech
As if UNRWA isn’t already in enough trouble being caught out with Hamas missiles hidden in its Gaza schools, and with some of its teachers praising the Jerusalem synagogue massacre, they have now...
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Karma – when a Palestinian terrorist meets his death 30 years too late
Yesterday Karma paid a visit to a deserving character. During a protest by Palestinians near the Jewish town of Shilo, Ziad Abu Ain, a Palestinian Minister, died during an altercation with the Israeli...
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Lawfare works in both directions: The Palestinians receive ICC observer...
As we saw in Wednesday’s incident, when a Palestinian Minister terrorist died of a heart attack during a protest near the security fence over the Green Line, the Palestinians were extremely quick off...
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The European Union loses its collective mind as the diplomatic onslaught on...
The EU has finally gone and done it. They have gone over the edge and not only recognized the non-existent “state” of “Palestine”, but they’ve removed Hamas from their list of terror organizations....
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The Palestinians grab a non-existent opportunity. Result: Fail
Abba Eban famously remarked that the Palestinians the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Yesterday however the reverse happened. The Palestinians took an opportunity that wasn’t...
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The Palestinians’ gamble at the ICC
As I mentioned in my post last week, Mahmoud Abbas, acting in what appears to be a fit of pique on not achieving his goal of a Palestinian state at the UN Security Council, applied to join the...
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IDF soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack named
The two IDF soldiers who were killed in yesterday’s cross-border attack in the were identified yesterday as Captain Yohai Kalangel and Sergeant Dor Nini: The two IDF soldiers killed in the Hezollah...
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