There is a worthy antidote to the latest publication produced by Amnesty International (AI), which is a humanitarian watchdog organization turned political propagandist, at least where Israel is concerned. Here an entire report is devoted to arguing that Israel is an apartheid state. First let us look at an important aspect of the “report” without…
Violence is raging in the Negev over the planting of trees. But it is not really about trees and it is not only about the Negev. In solidarity with the Negev Bedouin, students at Tel Aviv University held a demonstration yesterday at the main campus entrance. They were waving PLO flags and calling out for…
Sometimes the wheels of justice turn excruciatingly slowly. Only recently, 17 Jewish men who were arrested in Ramla in May 2021, during Operation Guardians of the Walls, were finally awarded NIS 5,000 each as compensation for false arrest. For Israeli society, the greatest impact of the May hostilities, other than in the southern communities near…
This is a story borne out of anger. I was angry at the apparent one-sidedness of the reporting at what happened at el-Mufaqara and the way it seemed everyone I knew accepted the media reports as unadulterated truth. It is a story of how I found a crack in the wall and did not give…
US political horse-trading and amoral ideologies — by a few members on the Republican side of the aisle but many on the Democratic side — are currently holding hostage the very lives and immediate safety of not only the residents of the Gaza Envelope and northern border area but ALL Israeli citizens: Jews, Muslims, Christians,…
The Jewish outpost of Oz Zion, in the Binyamin region of Samaria, was demolished four days ago. It was home to two families and five youth aged 16-18 who live there full-time and are studying in the yeshiva on site. Other teenagers join them for varying amounts of time, also to study and ensure a…
It really will not just disappear. Just like most crises, this one seems to have passed into the newspaper archives and probably not many people think about it anymore. However, the issue raised by Hisham Abu Hawash will not go away and a tactic that works will be used over and over again. When I…
Look below to see a photogenic demonstration with dozens of Israelis and Arabs bringing a water container to Arabs “kept thirsty” under the brutal Israeli “occupation” Well, I have news for you. It is not really new news, but news you have likely not read lately, if at all. In fact, it took me some…
In order to make it easier for the reader to access the sections of the Oslo Accords dealing with water management for Judea-Samaria, I have copy-pasted the relevant article (40) and the appendices (called “schedules” in the document) in this one post. My goal was to provide an easily accessed reference when engaged in debate…
There was a remarkable moment during my interview with Yehuda Bazak, resident of Avigayil in the South Hebron Hills. He was telling me about his brief conversation with Mohammad Hamamdi who he found cultivating soil on state land in Area C, under Israeli jurisdiction, an act that was against the law. Hamamdi is well known,…
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