Israel and the Palestinians

May 15, 2023

Family of Gazan killed in Israel by PIJ rocket getting terror victim benefits from Israel

Abdullah Abu Jaba, the Gazan laborer killed by an Islamic Jihad rocket while working in southern Israel on May 13, 2023. Source: Twitter. (JNS) — A Palestinian man from Gaza killed by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket on May 13 […]
May 15, 2023

Five-day operation won’t change Gaza, but offers quiet to the South

A building in Rehovot, a day after a Gazan rocket killed an elderly woman there, May 12, 2023. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90. by Yaakov Lappin (JNS) — On the day that a truce between Israel and the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic […]
March 28, 2023

Why there is no peace: The Palestinian terrorist’s mother urged him to become a martyr

by Stephen Flatow (JNS) — When a teenager informs his parent that he intends to do something rash, any normal, responsible parent tries to dissuade him. “Don’t do something crazy just because your friends are doing it.” Or “But that […]
January 5, 2023

Bedein: Palestinian Authority is first entity in the world to endorse murder of Jews

Israel Behind the News David Bedein, director of the Israel Resource news agency at the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, has a strong message for the new right wing Israeli government — to be very careful regarding […]
December 22, 2022

Stupid is as State Department does: “Evenhandedness”

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — One of the most misguided Arabist ideas that the Biden State Department has resurrected is also one of the most insidious: “evenhandedness.” This is the belief that the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the conflict […]
December 21, 2022

Document shows EU conspiring with Palestinians to take Area C from Israel

The European Union flag flies over illegal construction in Area C of Judea and Samaria. Credit: Courtesy. by Charles Bybelezer (JNS) — A confidential document composed by the European Union’s mission in eastern Jerusalem and obtained by JNS shows that […]
December 16, 2022

Palestinian Issue is About Supremacy, not Justice

by Lt. Col. Yochai Guiski (IDF Ret.) (JNS) — Recently, we marked, as we do every year, November 29, the date of the historic United Nations decision to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. It […]
November 10, 2022

NGO: Palestinians stealing Area C territory with European backing

The E.U.-funded illegal Palestinian outpost of Khan al-Ahmar, in the E1 area east of Jerusalem, with Israel Route 1 in the background. Credit: Regavim by Steve Postal (JNS) — Arab expansion into land in Judea and Samaria is far outpacing […]
August 25, 2022

The Palestinian Authority’s stealth plan to take over Judea and Samaria — with Western help

An Israeli bulldozer demolishes an illegally built Palestinian farm shed in the West Bank village of Masafer, near Yatta, Feb. 27, 2020. Photo Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90. by David Isaac (JNS) — Diligently following a master plan worked out over 10 years […]
July 31, 2022

Israel’s defense establishment wants to help Gaza develop economically

View of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 12, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Yaakov Lappin (JNS) — A key goal of Israel’s defense establishment is to delay frequent war to the extent possible in order […]
July 1, 2022

Who really “stole” Palestinian land? Jordan

by Mitchell Bard The Palestinians, one-sided critics of Israel and anti-Semites have little interest in historical facts. Nothing can penetrate their veil of ignorance. Still, there is hope for students whose minds have not yet been closed or poisoned by […]