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Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 18, 2013 29 Comments

Good thing John Kerry is in Israel pressuring Israel to accept as a precondition to negotiations a return to the 1949 armistice lines with minor modifications. That precondition is being held firmly by Mahmoud Abbas, who weekly receives encouragement, including the recent decision by the EU...

Posted by David Gerstman on July 18, 2013 14 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 7-18-2013...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 13, 2013 5 Comments

We noted several days ago the latest "who bombed it?" mystery, Did Israel just destroy Syrian depot holding Russian missiles? While answers remain sketchy, unnamed U.S. sources reportedly are pointing to Israel, via CNN: A series of explosions on July 5 at a critical Syrian port was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 07, 2013 22 Comments

We've made this point time and again, the Palestinian culture of incitement is the core problem You will not see western boycotts, divestments or sanctions for the type of incitement against Jews routinely put out by Palestinian media and institutions. Anti-Jewish incitement is an accepted part of...

Posted by David Gerstman on July 04, 2013 15 Comments

1) When all else fails focus on Israel I'm not sure that the editors of the New York Times realized how absurd the title of this recent article on the Middle East sounded, Chaos in Middle East Grows as the U.S. Focuses on Israel. Surely everything...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 12, 2013 13 Comments

At least we can be comfortable how it will be answered. From Danelle: 5:30 am Harper, Texas Came across this handpainted wall while dodging deer early this morning 20 miles south of Fredericksberg, Texas. Left El Paso at 9pm last night, still have a couple more hours before we...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 8 Comments

46 years ago today using the Christian calendar. We celebrated the event on May 8 using the Hebrew calendar,  46 Hebrew calendar years ago Jerusalem was reunited: The abuse of Jewish historical and religious sites ended: “It felt like Messiah had come,” says Avigail Shlesinger, 81, of the...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 30, 2013 11 Comments

In an interview today, President Bashar Assad of Syria claims that Russia has delivered some of the S-300 missiles he bought.The Lebanse paper, Al Akhbar, quoted from an exclusive interview Assad gave to Hezbollah's Al Manar television channel. "Syria has received the first batch of Russian...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 28, 2013 3 Comments

Mahmoud Abbas made a superficial rejection of kidnapping Israeli soldiers as part of the Palestinian political culture at the World Economic Forum. It was, as Israel Matzav points out, as much a thinly-veiled threat as a rejection of the tactic, via Times of Israel (emphasis added): Abbas categorically rejected the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 27, 2013 9 Comments

Since today is a relatively slow news day (he says, probably to be surprised), it's a good time for another legal history lesson, from law professor Eugene Kontorovich, who also is affiliated with The Lawfare Project. We previously featured his lecture, The Legal Case for Israel, which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 26, 2013 5 Comments

So writes Syracuse University Professor Zak Braiterman, Hezbollah — Part of the Global Left?: Reading this article about Hezbollah fighting in Syria and up to its waist in blood, it made me wonder if a certain philosopher still believes that Hezbollah is a social movement that is “progressive,”...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 23, 2013 6 Comments

An article today at The Tower discloses a rough, handdrawn map allegedly by Mahmoud Abbas, refecting a peace offer extended by Ehud Olmert when he was Prime Minister of Israel, EXCLUSIVE: The Deal the Palestinians Rejected, The History That Was Never Made: In a stunning development...

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