Posts Tagged: Palestinian Rights
Thousands of Israelis Live in Area A, But No One Condemns Them — Because They Aren’t Jewish
When do the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Students for Justice for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, J Street, and so many others,...
Why Does the Media Ignore ‘Other’ Palestinian Humanitarian Issues?
News coverage of the supposed dire living conditions endured by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is not hard to find. In the...
Puncturing the Lie of Palestinian Identity
JNS.org - Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), recently claimed that the Palestinians were the descendants of the Canaanites. “This land is...
Revisiting the ‘Legitimate Rights of the Palestinian People’
JNS.org - The Trump administration is putting together a new Middle East summit meeting for the unveiling of the political portion of President Donald Trump’s...
Sanders Taps Israel Critics, Including BDS Supporter, for Democratic Platform Committee
JNS.org - Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) on Monday picked two critics of Israel to be members of the Democratic Party Platform Drafting Committee, amid...
Prevent Hamas Re-Arming Before Investing in Gaza
Will the reconstruction of Gaza also mean a serious effort to prevent the re-arming of Hamas? One without the other is folly. And yet the international...
Washington Post’s Misdiagnosis of Obama’s Middle East Failing
Sometimes it is enough to see, not to analyze. The picture in The Washington Post of Barack Obama with Benjamin Netanyahu says it all. Obama looks like...
Israeli Envoy Meets with Egyptian Military in Cairo
While no discussions have taken place between new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Morsi was sworn in as the...
What About Human Rights – Does Anyone Really Care?
Human Rights are an area of great concern, surely, for all who strive to be politically correct, but they are even more so for regular...
Ending the Palestinian “Right of Return” to Israel
Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by...