Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four rabbis in a Jerusalem synagogue before being shot dead by police. Israeli police said on Tuesday that three of the people killed by Palestinian attackers in a Jerusalem synagogue were dual U.S.-Israeli nationals and the fourth man he[...]
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November 18th, 2014 - 9:53 am § in Israel/Palestine, Religion
Eyewitness Accounts of Massacre in Jerusalem Synagogue
BRANDEIS: A Failure of Honor as a Pakistani woman is stoned to death
The politically correct administration at Brandeis must share in the blame for this “honor” killing. A 25-year-old pregnant Pakistani woman was stoned to death in front of a courthouse last July, She was killed by her father and brothers because she had insulted the family by [...]
October 7th, 2014 - 1:40 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Working In Israel While Arab .. not so bad!
An article recently published by the PA official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida lauds Israel and Israeli employers of Palestinians for their positive employment ethics towards their workers, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports. “The only cases in which a Palestinian worker does not receive the salar[...]
October 2nd, 2014 - 1:36 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
The Politics of Circumcision
According to the WHO, male circumcision reduces the risk of heterosexually acquiring HIV in men by about 60 percent. Fortunately circumcision is a common ritual in Africa, although traditional methods cause a loot of botched procedures n young male children. So a circumcision device made[...]
September 17th, 2014 - 10:11 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Can Palestine Achieve a Government Able to Make Peace?
West Bank – Senior Hamas Official: Abbas Is Afraid Of Palestinian Elections West Bank – Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said Wednesday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was afraid to hold elections… Read More at Voz iz Neias »[...]
September 9th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
A Fruitless Attack on Salaita’s Academic Work
According to a report in Tablet, a liberal Jewish website, Steven Salaita’s appointment at University of Illinois was to a job in Illinois’ American Indian Studies Department. However, the author Liel Leibovitz was unable to find any evidence that Salaita had published an[...]
Who is a Jew?
Someone on Facebook asked me to define the terms Jew, Hebrew, Israeli, Zionist and Palestinian. Here are my answers: Israeli means a citizen of Israel. Anyone .. any religion or ethnicity can be an Israeli. Jew or Hebrew are synonyms and they mean being a member of the Jewish people. To be a [...]
August 9th, 2014 - 12:48 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Politics
A Wonderful View: Who are the Palestinians?
Do Palestinians Really Exist? Dean Obeidallah , The Daily Beast (adapted and redacted) What you don’t know about Palestinians. My late father, Abdul Musa Obeidallah, was born there in the 1930s. When I say Palestine, that’s not a political statement. It’s just a statement of fact. When [...]
THE Ave Challenge: Who is it?
A. anti Israel protester in costume B. Israeli fundamentalist opposed to requirement for military service C. Jewish ally of Ahmadinejad and Arafat D. Actor from Iranian movie about the founding of the Jewish state E. The grandson of Golda Meir[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Israel Palestine: The glimmers of peace.
As I have written before, the Gaza war may also have been needed if the Palestinian Authority is to be able to negotiate peace and create a viable state. Even without Hamas, the Palestinian State is dubious as a thriving economy. Unlike Israel with it its seven thriving ports, Palestine on the Wes[...]