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Ongoing Housing Crisis For Gush Katif (Gaza) Refugees Since 2005

MK Zevulun Kalfa (Bayit Yehudi/Jewish Home) addressed the Knesset today in a special meeting called by the Opposition about the housing crisis. Kalfa is a resident of Kibbutz Shomria in southern Israel, which today is home to refugees from Gush Katif – the former Jewish communities of Gaza. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also present – […]

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Calls For No Peace Talks Till Palestinian Terror Ends

MK Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) spoke to Arutz Sheva after the fatal stabbing of Eden Atias Hy”d in Afula in northern Israel earlier on Wednesday. In the interview she called on Israel to declare that peace talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) won’t continue until the PA ensures an end to the terror attacks. Hotovely claims the current talks, which […]

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Palestinian Football Teams Named After Terrorists

Dalal Mughrabi, “the Engineer” Yahya Ayyash, Ghassan Kanafani, and Ziyad Da’as are role models by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik Two different Palestinian football tournaments recently included teams named after terrorists. Four teams were named after terrorists who were behind some of the most lethal attacks murdering Israeli civilians. Although these were not official Palestinian Authority […]

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Israeli Academic Sues Over Boycott Discrimination

An Israeli academic is suing one of the UK’s largest trade unions, as well as a mental health trust, for racial discrimination, after his speaking engagement he was due to deliver was canceled because he was Israeli. Professor Moty Cristal was due to lead a workshop on “conflict resolution” for managers and union officials at the Manchester Mental […]

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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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Loewenstein’s Load of BDS BS

November 7, 2013 14:27 by Simon Plosker Writing in The Guardian’s Comment is Free, Australian anti-Israel journalist Anthony Loewenstein defends the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against charges of anti-Semitism, specifically in the context of a court case brought against an Australian academic. BDS is a comprehensive, international strategy that seeks to present Israel as a […]

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