Monthly Archives : February 2024

Stop giving US taxpayer dollars to terrorists


Country after country has pulled funding from the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) after revelations that members of its staff were involved in and/or supported Hamas in the Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel. Should the U.N. agency be completely dismantled? Should something take its place, and if so, who can…

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Israel is both traumatized and sober-minded


There’s a “new wisdom” making the rounds in foreign-policy circles in Washington. It goes something like this: Israelis were so traumatized by Hamas’s brutal invasion on Oct. 7 that they can’t think straight about their interests. This is the reason why 85% of Israelis oppose Palestinian statehood and 99 out of 120 Knesset members voted for a resolution opposing unilateral…

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How the ‘settler violence’ campaign works


This past Last Saturday afternoon, 71-year-old Hagar Gefen was driving through the Jordan Valley when she was waylaid by Palestinian assailants. They pulled her from her car, beat her and stole her vehicle. Gefen is an anti-Zionist activist affiliated with the radical NGO Looking the Occupation in the Eye. Her group’s modus operandi is to harass Israeli civilians and military…

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360 degrees of hostility: The Biden administration and Israel


The Mothers of IDF Soldiers group led a demonstration last week of army mothers, reservists in the Israel Defense Forces, bereaved families and other concerned citizens outside the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. They demanded that President Joe Biden stop leveraging power to force Israel to resupply Hamas. The following day, hundreds of Israelis, including parents of soldiers, families of hostages…

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