Repost: Qanta Ahmed, "I Saw the Children Hamas Beheaded With My Own Eyes. Shame on Queen Rania"
“Silence ensures Islamist antisemitism overrides human morality.”
Eritrean Protests and the "No Jews, No News" Principle
There are no arguments as to why police response to violent protests in Israel is more important than police response to violent protests in Sweden or Canada, or anywhere else. So why do we only have stories on the former?
Repost: 1970 article on Arab Division and {{Syrianpalaestinian}} Terrorism
“Efforts at unified action by the various groups is desultory through a United Fedayeen Command and a Unified Command of Palestine Resistance were formed last February when the guerillas had a showdown with the Jordanian government -- and won.”
Repost: Matti Friedman, "An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth"
2013, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claimed 42 lives— roughly the monthly homicide rate in the city of Chicago. Jerusalem, internationally renowned as a city of conflict, had slightly fewer violent deaths per capita last year than Portland, Ore., one of America’s safer cities. In contrast, in three years the Syrian conflict has claimed an estimated 190,000 lives…
Repost: Silvan Shalom, "A fence built for peace"
The general assembly request recalls the famous observation of Abba Eban that "if Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions".
Repost: Emma Goldman, "On Zionism"
I have been taught that the land should belong to those who till the soil. With all of his deep-seated sympathies with the Arabs, our comrade cannot possibly deny that the Jews in Palestine have tilled the soil. Tens of thousands of them, young and deeply devout idealists, have flocked to Palestine, there to till the soil under the most trying pioneer conditions. They have reclaimed wastelands and have turned them into fertile fields and blooming gardens.