To the stunned approval of Israel and its supporters, Facebook last week shut down the official account of the ruling Palestinian faction, Fatah. Someone apparently felt Fatah had violated Facebook community standards by posting an old photo of its former leader, Yasser Arafat, posing with a rifle next to the group’s current leader, Mahmoud Abbas. On Wednesday, Facebook apologized for the “mishap” and reinstated the Fatah page. “The page was removed in error and restored as soon as we were able to investigate. We apologize for this mistake,” a Facebook spokesman was quoted. Sadly, Fatah’s years of posts inciting murderous violence…
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US President Donald Trump has a lot of opposition to keep his promise of finally moving the American embassy back to Jerusalem. No one expected Israel itself to be among that opposition. But that’s precisely what US Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested in an interview with The Global Politico podcast recently. According to Corker, Trump was ready to move the embassy the very minute after his inauguration. But Israeli ambivalence caused the president to stop and take a step back. A lot of Israel’s mixed feelings on the issue are seemingly connected to the Jewish…
American Jewish leaders are enthusiastically applauding President Donald Trump’s call on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to remove anti-Jewish hate material from its school books. At his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Feb. 15, Trump said “the Palestinians have to get rid of” the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish material that appears in PA school texts. “They’re taught tremendous hate,” he said. “I’ve seen what they’re taught…it starts at a very young age and it starts in the school room.” Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, stated, “The…
You won’t hear about this in the international mainstream media that is determined to paint Israel as hostile toward all Arabs. In this month alone, Israel provided, free of charge, life-changing surgery to 16 Palestinian children who were born deaf. The children came from Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”), as well as from Hamas-ruled Gaza. They were each fitted with a special cochlear implant allowing them to “hear” sounds in their surroundings, and underwent special therapy to help them get used to the drastic change in their lives. The procedures took place at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.…
Israel Public Security Minister Gil’ad Erdan stated that, with US President Donald Trump rewriting the rule of Mideast peacemaking, there was now a real chance for a genuine agreement between the Jewish state and its Arab neighbors. At his press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said he was not married to the two-state solution and would consider any reasonable proposal for peace, so long as Israel likes it. Speaking at a gathering of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, Erdan said that attitude from an American president is a game-changer: “We have an opportunity to…
To say that Israelis were glued to their televisions as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood side-by-side with US President Donald Trump to address the media would be a major understatement. For most Israelis, this first meeting between the two leaders since Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States was enormously fateful. And most Israelis were beyond pleased with the outcome, and the drastic improvement over relations during the Obama Administration. What most took away from the press conference was that Trump had effectively put Israel back in the driver’s seat when it comes to making…
Even as government forces were evacuating the unauthorized Jewish outpost of Amona, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced recently plans for the first new Jewish settlement in the “West Bank” in over 25 years. Netanyahu said he was putting together a government committee to advance construction of the new community, the name and location of which is yet to be decided. It will be the first government-authorized Jewish settlement since the establishment of Revava near the Samarian town of Ariel in 1991. Since then, Israel has complied with its peace process commitment to not construct any new settlements. But, with the land-for-peace…
Palestinian and other Arab leaders threatened violence in response to President Trump’s pledge to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also promised such a move as candidates, each backed off in the end. The terrorist who killed four Israelis in Jerusalem on January 8th expressed agitation after hearing a sermon at a local mosque criticizing Trump’s embassy relocation promise.The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership reportedly instructed the mosques it controls to focus their religious sermons on the embassy relocation. Worse still, the PA promised the terrorist’s widow a lifetime, $760-per-month stipend…
On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-anticipated visit to the White House, a key member of President Donald Trump’s staff, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, resigned due to mounting pressure over his contacts with Russia. Flynn resigned late Monday night after admitting that he had misled Trump administration officials, notably Vice President Mike Pence, over his conversation with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak back in December. Flynn denied that he spoke with Kislyak regarding fresh American sanctions on Russia imposed by former President Barack Obama, but it was later revealed that Flynn and the Russian…
At least seven Israelis were wounded after a shooting and stabbing terror attack at an open-air market in the central city of Petah Tikva, a suburb of Tel Aviv. According to Israeli police, an 18-year-old Palestinian from Nablus opened fire on a bus near the market and then committed a stabbing at a sewing shop before being subdued by civilians and arrested by police. Central District Police spokesman Ami Ben David said the attacker had been arrested with a weapon in hand. The Magen David Adom emergency response group said it treated seven wounded individuals and evacuated them to local…