Israel and the Palestinians

November 26, 2024

Where terrorists run free: Lessons from a few hours in the Palestinian Authority’s Jenin

An Israeli military operation in Jenin on Nov. 20, 2024. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90. by Moshe Phillips Israeli security forces spent a few hours in the Palestinian Authority city of Jenin earlier this month. The incident didn’t make much news, […]
November 24, 2024

Israel is right: UNRWA is a rogue agency

UNRWA officials at the site of an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, July 15, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Henry Kopel (JNS) — Once again, the so-called human-rights community is in high-outrage […]
October 30, 2024

Disdain for terror-enabling UNRWA is a unifying force across Israel’s political spectrum

Israelis protest against the U.N. Relief and Works Agency outside one of its offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. by Douglas Altabef (JNS) — It is not the norm in Israel today to have a broad-based, […]
October 30, 2024

Israeli UN envoy: UNRWA ‘payroll resembles a most-wanted list’

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East on Oct. 29, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Israel’s envoy to the United Nations […]
October 29, 2024

Knesset bans UNRWA, outlaws all official contact

Palestinian supporters of Hamas protest against the U.S. Middle East peace plan front of the main headquarters the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza City on February 20, 2020. Photo by Ali Ahmed/ Flash90. by Canaan Lidor, […]
September 28, 2024

Pro-Hamas vandals deface, burn ancient synagogue near Hebron

Palestinians at the Eshtemoa Synagogue south of Hebron in the Judean village of Al-Samu on Aug. 23, 2022. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90. (JNS) — Palestinians spray-painted pro-Hamas graffiti on and set fire to an ancient Jewish synagogue south of Hebron […]
September 27, 2024

PA leader Abbas: Temple Mount is “exclusive property of Muslims”

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the U.N. General Assembly at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City on Sept. 26, 2024. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — In an address […]
September 12, 2024

Palestinians must want a two state solution before one can realistically be offered

View of the tripoint border between Israel, Syria and Jordan from northern Israel on Feb. 15, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90. by Joel Margolis (JNS) — Recent remarks by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the current war between Israel […]
September 9, 2024

Palestinian Authority urging UN to order removal of 500,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters, Sept. 21, 2023. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images. by Akiva Van Koningsveld (JNS) — The Palestinian Authority is circulating a draft resolution asking the United […]
September 1, 2024

Smotrich: Israel is “one step away” from an Oct. 7 from Judea and Samaria

Israeli security forces stand guard at the scene of a shooting attack, near Tarqumiyah, in Judea, Sept. 1, 2024. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90. (JNS) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sept. 1 urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to order […]
August 27, 2024

U.S. gives Palestinians billions, get nothing but insults in return

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Credit: Flash90. by Eric Mandel (JNS) — In a recent speech before the Turkish parliament, Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas honored the assassinated Hamas […]