Palestinian Authority Pays Terrorists in Prison More than its Own Employees

November 12, 2013 16:44 by Pesach Benson Investigative journalist Edwin Black lays bare the inner workings of PA stipends to terrorists imprisoned in Israel. Bottom line: Western aid money is subsidizing terror. Israelis have known about these payments for years, but Black reveals new details. Under a sliding scale, carefully articulated in the law of the prisoner, the […]

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Obama Turns on Israel

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online, The Corner November 8, 2013 Barack Obama’s March 2013 trip to Israel had a too-good-to-be-true feel about it. While barely pressuring on Israel, he instructed Palestinians not to set preconditions for negotiations and admonished them to “recognize that Israel will be a Jewish state.” It felt out of character, […]

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U.S. and Israel Lose Voting Rights in UNESCO

The United States and Israel lost their voting rights at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday after suspending funding to the organization in 2011 when it admitted “Palestine” as a member. A source from the UN agency who spoke to AFP said neither the United States nor Israel “presented the […]

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Anti-Semitism on the Rise in Europe

Anti-Semitism has worsened in Europe in the past few years with abuse increasingly widespread on the Internet, a survey by the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) showed Friday. The study, released ahead of the 75th anniversary of “Kristallnacht” which saw Nazi thugs smash up Jewish businesses and synagogues, found that 66 percent of European Jews […]

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