Watch Your Tax-Shekels At Work for You!

Did you know that you can see if our MKs are busy working for us minute by minute? The Knesset website has a feature I just discovered and you have to give it a try. Go to this Knesset link and you can see which MKs are currently in the building. At the time I […]

Inon Dan Kehati: Pursuing the Slogan and Missing the Peace

One of the main obstacles for the emergence of peace and prosperity, for both Palestinians and Jews, is the dogmatic perception that sanctifies the failed Two State Solution as if it were a religion, and prevents any new political ideas and approaches to emerge and clarify our future. Two weeks ago, Dr. Gershon Baskin wrote […]

Arab Council Against BDS – Inviting Jews back “Home”. Hmmm.

I may ruffle some feathers here, but I gave myself time to synthesize the thing and I still feel now the same way I did when the article Arab Thinkers Call to Abandon Boycotts and Engage with Israel first came out. I grimmaced and felt my spine straighten, like a boxer anticipating the next move […]

Deal of the Century: Changing the Language If Not Much Else

If Trump’s Deal of the Century had any binding enforcement capabilities, it would be an incredible coup for Israel. If the deal is merely a new starting point for negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, it is more of the same of what we have already seen for the past 70 years. With one […]

Terrorism Study Teaches Me About PA Rentier Economy

I was curious what I would find in a relatively recent article with the title: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories” written by James A. Piazza of Penn State University.  I learned one thing from the article that has nothing to do with the substance of the research itself, namely, the […]

Can Palestinian Arabs Support Democracy and Terrorism Too?

What is the relationship between attitudes toward democracy and support for terrorism? James A. Piazza of Penn State University examined just that in his relatively recent article: “Democratic skepticism and support for terrorism in the Palestinian Territories“. His abstract states that some citizens of Arab countries in general view democracy as an intrusion into their […]

Russia Created a Palestinian Identity Way Before Arafat was Born

“The Invention of Palestine” is a PhD thesis written by former Penn State U student Zachary J. Foster in which he focuses on the creation of the Palestinian identity. Foster has a sense of humour. His unusually lengthy and funny acknowledgements set me up to anticipate reading his thesis with pleasure and making sure I […]

Micha Danzig: Commit this to Memory!

Recently, on a friend’s page, an Arab Supremacist Israel hater wrote the following to me: I respect Judaism for what it is, a religion. European Zionism is Colonialist and racist. Arab Jews and Arab Muslims lived in a relatively peaceful state of co-existence until the intrusion of European Zionism. The European Zionists sowed the seeds […]

What Have Strawberries Got to Do with the Israeli Blockade of Gaza?

We keep on hearing about the Gaza blockade, about how Israel has put the population of Gaza in an open-air prison and we do not let people out or products in. Well, someone in Israel apparently did not get that memo. Look what was reported in an article posted on 12 December 2019: In the […]

I Really Feel Sorry for the Universities in the Palestinian Authority

A new announcement on the website of An-Najah National University in Nablus made me aware of something: The university must find itself between a rock and a hard place! I suppose all universities in the Palestinian Authority (PA) find themselves in the same bind: On the one hand, they need to convince the world of […]