Humor | Humor

AOC Cancels Event Honoring Arafat After Learning he Visited Israel - The Mideast Beast

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has backed out of an event honoring former Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat

Entertainment | Humor

U.S. Military Considers Dropping Gender Reveal Bombs in Middle East

The Department of Defense began compiling a report this week aimed at assessing the viability of gender reveal “bombs” as effective weapons.

News | News

Arab funding for Palestinian Authority down 85% in 2020

Arab aid for the Palestinian Authority plummeted by 85% in 2020, the New Arab reported Wednesday. According to the report,

Politics | Donald Trump

Trump's Middle East Peace Deals Continue to Pay Dividends

We’re all used to seeing protesters hit the bricks when war breaks out. War is bad. It’s often unwise, or the end reached after a series of unfortunate events and poor choices. War is violent and kills people and gets things broken. It’s the kind of thing people tend to protest.

News | News

Jack Cohen - Paradigm Shift in the Middle East

Jack Cohen – Paradigm Shift in the Middle East The Trump Administration is in the process of selling F-35 fighter jets to the UAE. Until now, Israel has been the only country in the Middle East which has received these advanced jets. This is because

Politics | Opinion

Trumping Palestinian lies and Tehran’s agenda

In one fell swoop, Trump set the record straight about Israel and its neighbors.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Hey Palestinians - you could have had peace with Israel 20 years ago and chose terror. Actions have consequences.

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

News | News

FLASHBACK: Pundits Predicted Jerusalem Embassy Move Would Kill Middle East Peace

With Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signing a historic treaty at the White House on Tuesday, the Free Beacon looks back on predictions of Middle East turmoil when the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Politics | Politics

Morning Greatness: Media Frets About Maskless Abraham Accords Signing

Good Wednesday morning. Here is what’s on the president’s agenda today: The president participates in a High Holy Days Call with Jewish Leaders President Trump has lunch with the Vice President The president delivers remarks at National Republican Congres

It is reprehensible that the media is whining about masks while Middle East peace was obviously the far more important story.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Marking 'dawn of new Middle East,' Israel signs historic deals with UAE, Bahrain | The Times of Israel

Trump speaks of 'changing course of history,' Netanyahu hopes for end to Arab-Israeli conflict 'once and for all,' while Gulf FMs pledge commitment to Palestinian cause

News | News

'Pakistan could be next to normalize ties with Israel'

The historic peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have send shockwave across the Arab world, meeting

Politics | Opinion

What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means

The Bahrain agreement with Israel is another important step in assembling a Washington-led coalition against a major strategic threat

Entertainment | Music

The Astroglides on Israeli National TV האסטרוגליידס בתוצרת הארץ

This a segment of a show that was broadcast on Israeli National TV in the early 2000s. We (The Astroglides) were approached by the TV producers through our l...

Ran Mosessco is a local surf musician here in San Diego (The Sand Devils) but is originally from Israel. Here is a piece about Israel's first and at the time only surf band called The Astroglides in the early 00s.

News | News

Bahrain Joins 'Circle of Peace,' Following UAE in Normalizing Ties With Israel

Manama, Bahrain. Photo: Wadiia via Wikimedia Commons. Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in striking an agreement to normalize relations …

Peace is happening in the Middle East and Donald Trump is heavily involved. Of course, progressives will not acknowledge his role or even that it’s happening. Jews wake up: the left has disdain for you and for Israel. They do NOT want Israel to be at peace.

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - Even antisemitic media in Iraq is discussing the benefits of normalization with Israel

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Sports | Mat surfing

Anchor Point Morocco

Ari Browne and friends have some fun matting Anchor Point in Morocco. Shot in and around Taghazout area.

News | Iran

In Jerusalem, Pompeo Talks With Israeli Leaders About Joint Efforts to 'Counter Iran's Destabilizing Influence' in Middle East

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu make joint statements during a news conference, after …

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - Hebron proves: It’s the Jew-hatred

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Miscellaneous | Diaspora

EXCLUSIVE: The End of Jewish Yemen is Imminent

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have ordered at least some of the country’s remaining Jews to leave, according to sources in the Amran Governorate, north of the capital Sanaa, who spoke recently with The Media Line.

Politics | Judea & Samaria

'I hope sovereignty is a matter of when, not if,' says former US envoy

Former US Special Representative for Middle East Affairs Jason Greenblatt on Wednesday called on those who opposed the suspension of

If Israel doesn’t extend sovereignty, it will be one of the biggest mistakes it’s ever made.

News | News

Israel, UAE reach historic peace deal: ‘We can make a wonderful future’

Third-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state includes embassies, direct flights; agreement “suspends” annexation, but Netanyahu says: “I will never give up on our right to our land.”

The Arabs are starting to be as sick and tired of the fake Palestinian narrative as are the Israelis. This also proves that peace was always possible if Arab nations are willing to accept that Israel (B”H) isn’t going anywhere.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Spreading the truth about the Palestinian Arab death ethos

Israel must ask: Is it just that people in an entity which promotes genocide get an upgrade to a state as a reward?Op-ed.

Politics | Opinion

Was The Beirut Explosion Intended for Israel?

A view shows a damaged building and vehicles following Tuesday’s blast in Beirut’s port area, Lebanon, Aug. 6, 2020. Photo: …

News | Pallywood

Palestinians make a big show of donating blood for Lebanese victims. It is all a scam.

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News | News

Tel Aviv gesture met with hostility in Lebanon

"We will light Tel Aviv with our missiles," writes Lebanese user after Tel Aviv city hall lit up with colors of Lebanese flag.

And here you have the reason why there will never be peace with the Arabs.

News | Israel Around The World

Israel Extends Humanitarian Aid Offer to Lebanon After Devastating Beirut Blast

A damaged vehicle is seen at the site of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 4, 2020. Photo: Reuters / …

Politics | Opinion

For Israel, Not Winning is Losing :: Middle East Forum

The late war hero and U.S. Senator John McCain once said: "When you're not winning, you're losing." Israel has won a lot of wars in its relatively brief history, but the last outright victory came almost half a century ago, in 1973 when it rebounded

News | News

Israel's anti-government protests deepen Netanyahu's problems | DW | 20.07.2020

Thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets to protest the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. Now, as Israel grapples with a second wave, Prime Minister Netanyahu is under increasing pressure.

Politics | Opinion

Why Israel will always be a Jewish state - The Jerusalem Post

Israel’s greatest security risk is a binational state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - When I say Beinart’s “peace plan” resembles Hamas’ plan, I’m not joking

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History | History

My Right Word: Are Palestinians Philistines?

Here is a Philistine artifact found in the Land of Israel: No Arabic you'll notice. Here is an inscription from Tel Arad left by th...

Politics | Opinion

Yes: annexation, No: Palestinian state - The Jerusalem Post

There is no compelling moral, historical or political reason why annexation in whole or in part should be made contingent on agreeing to the creation of a Palestinian entity.

News | News

Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp: The U.S. Navy’s sex trafficking scandal in Bahrain

NCIS probes revealed evidence that U.S. sailors were housing prostitutes in their apartments, seizing the women’s passports and taking a cut of their earnings ― profiting from the sex trade that services shipmates in Bahrain.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

This is what Palestinians hijacking George Floyd look like

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Politics | Politics

UN atomic watchdog says Iran now violating all restrictions of nuclear deal | The Times of Israel

Confidential report says Tehran continues to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and enriching beyond levels allowed under nuclear deal

Politics | BDS

BDS is failing - the never ending story (June 2020)

Here’s the latest installment in our ongoing series of posts documenting BDS fails. Political BDS Fails Oklahoma stands with Israel  https://twitter

Politics | Politics

Iran is increasingly promoting antisemitic Houthi leader from Yemen

Iran’s role in Yemen gives it the ability to project power into the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Last week, Iran was touting a new "final solution" for Jews. Now this. Like the Nazis, most everything Iran does is threaded with or colored by genocidal antisemitism. Iran is who Democrats threw a lifeline (the "Iran deal") and elevated to the hub of U.S. regional policy over Israel and other allies. And, they didn't learn: Even this year, Democrats lamented the the killing of Qassem Soleimani and continue to call for the U.S. to return to the Iran deal.

Sports | Cycling

Into the Rift : The Story of the PEdALED Atlas Mountain Race

After the film, tune into the Q&A get the inside scoop from top riders, the race director and the filmmaker. Follow the link to the Zoom call here: https://u...

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - British census in 1922 says that lots of Arabs came to Beersheva from Transjordan and Arabia

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One of the many, endless, Palestinian lies is that today’s “Palestinians” are the descendants of people who have lived in the land for millennia. Most of today’s Arabs in Judea and Samaria either moves here themselves from places like Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia etc. or are, at most 2 or 3 generations from people who did. (We also know that many of their last names are of Egyptian, Saudi, Syrian etc. origin).

Politics | Opinion

Israeli Sovereignty, Not Appeasement, Is the Key to Lasting Peace

It is long past time for Israel to apply sovereignty to large swaths of Judea and Samaria.

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: There has been a nakba for 72 years. But it isn’t what Palestinians say it is.

The word “nakba” was coined in 1948 by Constantin Zureiq in his pamphlet “The Meaning of Nakba,” but he didn’t describe it the way it is used today. His description of the events of 1948 were centered around the mistakes of the Arabs rather than the actions of the Jews.

History | History

The Pogrom That Started the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict

The opening shot - exactly one hundred years ago in 1920.

Sports | Cycling

Israel Is My Playground - Fabio Wibmer

Thanks to Visit Israel for inviting me to this incredible country! Check out https://goisrael.com and https://youtube.com/user/goisraelofficial to get more i...

Politics | Israel

14 pro-Iranian militiamen killed in airstrikes in Syria - Defense/Security

Israel 'likely' behind airstrikes on pro-Iranian militias in Syria, observer group says, after 14 fighters killed in strikes.

News | News

At Long Last, Gantz and Netanyahu Sign Coalition Deal, Ending Israeli Political Impasse

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign a coalition agreement, ending Israel’s year-long political impasse, …

News | The News

Palestinian officials may be hushing up coronavirus infections, just like Syria, Turkey, Russia, China...

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Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Sorry, Israel haters - Gaza has no shortages of basic goods and plenty in stock

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Politics | BDS

The True Nature Of The BDS Movement

BDS is not primarily a pro-Palestinian movement, but an anti-Jewish one. Denying one group, and one group only, the right to homestead land is unjust.

Politics | BDS

Anti-Israel activists don't care about the facts

Professional politicians say a lot of things that just aren't true, so perhaps it's not fair to hold others to

News | News

Trump abolishes controversial language on Jerusalem in new human rights report

The Trump administration will no longer refer to Arab residents of Jerusalem as Palestinians, Israel Hayom has learned. Follow Israel

Politics | "Apartheid" State?

Israel Apartheid Week: The Smear Disguised as a Human Rights Campaign

  Every spring,  the annual "Israel Apartheid Week," hate-fest hits students on university campuses in North America and Europe.  In a bid to dupe

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - 03/09 Links Pt1: What we know about Iran five years after Netanyahu’s speech to Congress; Palestinians Revive Blood Libels as Israel Saves Their Lives

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News | Pallywood

Elder Of Ziyon - New claim: Palestinians invented the alphabet!

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Politics | Politics

A Clear Win: Israel Has Decided

Based on the early results, which point to Benjamin Netanyahu as the big winner in these elections, statements saying he

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - If Palestinians were a nation, why did they accept Ottoman control?

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News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - 02/25 Links Pt1: Despite attempt to change rules with Syria strikes, Israel’s Gaza policy failing; Voter apathy threatens reunion of Judea and Samaria with Israel; Mubarak, the ‘Pharaoh’ Toppled by the Arab Spring, Dies at 91

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Palestinian schools teach that "the first historian was Palestinian," "A Palestinian Roman

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Politics | Iran

How Iran’s regime spread coronavirus to the Middle East

Iran has known for five days that there were likely more cases concentrated in the holy city of Qom, where religious pilgrims gather.

Miscellaneous | Israeli Culture

Elder Of Ziyon - The Spectator explains what Israeli cuisine means

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Jews have been living in the Middle East and creating middle eastern food for decades. No one ever heard of a “Palestinian” Arab before 1967.

News | News

Israel strikes Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Syria after rocket barrage

The IDF said early Monday that it struck targets belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group in Gaza and

Politics | Judea & Samaria

Israel News: 24,000 Palestinians now work in ‘settlements’ at double the local wage

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News | The News

Iranian Basij students threaten to convert the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai into a Palestinian consulate

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Politics | Resources

BDS: Myths and Facts | HonestReporting

What is BDS, the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" movement against Israel? BDS myths characterize the campaign as grass roots social justice fighting

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Elizabeth Warren proves she knows nothing about Israel and peace

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Politics | Opinion

Palestinian ‘right of return’ is really about ending Israel's existence

On Jan. 28, President Trump revealed his administration's long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. As several commentators noted, the proposal explicitly states that there shall be no “right of return” — a key phrase with a very particular meaning tha

Politics | Resources

End the Hoax: There Are No Palestinians

President Trump’s “Deal of the Century” was a brilliant illustration of his mastery of the art of the deal. This extravagantly generous proposal, and the Palestinians’ contemptuous rejection of it, severely damages the international Left’s claim that the Israelis are the obstacles to peace, and exposes the Palestinian leadership for the genocidal warmongers they are.

Sounds harsh, but the facts are incontrovertible.

News | News

Barry Shaw - Basic Middle East Facts.

Barry Shaw – Basic Middle East Facts. How Middle East realities reflect the abnormal behavior of the Palestinians. The Middle East is characterized by the following 14-century-old intra-Muslim features: no intra-Muslim peaceful coexistence, unpredic

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - 02/03 Links Pt1: The New York Times Dreads Peace; Why even the Israeli Left has embraced Trump's peace plan; Israel-Sudan ties on the agenda for Netanyahu’s Uganda visit

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Politics | Opinion

The best thing about the Trump plan is that is exposes the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel crowd

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Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: It's the peace, stupid

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Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Saudi Arabia Is Now More Pro-Israel Than the Democratic Party

For decades, Saudi Arabia — a territorially expansive nation and home to Islamic holy cities Mecca and Medina — represented a symbolic epicenter of the

This is true. Unfortunately. It is beyond explanation that anyone Jewish could still support the Democrats.

News | News

Israel News: UAE and Saudi Arabia say positive things about Trump plan

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News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Newly-Unveiled Trump Peace Plan Envisions Palestinian State With East Jerusalem Capital

US President Donald Trump points past Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they discuss a Middle East peace plan proposal …

The Palestinians have a state already, it’s called “Jordan.” What they’ve wanted since 1948 is no Jewish state. The proof of that obvious fact is their rejection of every single peace deal ever offered, going back to the creation of Israel itself (when Arabs chose war over the state that was offered at the time).

Sports | Surfing/SUPing

SUP history Israel

From LIfe Magazine

Not sure of the year. Edit: I was corrected in another forum where I found this pic. The craft these people are using is called Hasake. I've posted about these before. These were (and are still) used as lifesaving craft in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. So this is Israel and not Australia as I previously posted. On another note, these craft really don't have any connection to modern day SUP but I still find the similarities interesting.

News | NEWS

How Al Jazeera is Avoiding Registering as a Foreign Agent

The international media conglomerate Al Jazeera has long operated as a Qatari publicity agent, producing content that consistently reflects the emirate's pro-Islamist, anti-American outlook. But when the U.S. Justice Department, spurred on by Russian

Sports | Cycling

The 2019 Edition of Migdal Epic Israel

Georg Egger / Maximilian Brandl and Haley Smith / Catharine Pendrel crowned the Men’s and Women’s overall winners of Migdal Epic Israel 2019 - https://bttlob...

News | News

Amid Anti-Regime Protests, Iranians Repeatedly Continue To Refuse to Trample American, Israeli Flags

Photo purportedly showing mosque attendees in Ahvaz, Iran refusing to place their shoes on American and Israeli flags. Photo: @the_boss1396 …

News | International News

Social Media Video Shows Iranian University Students Refusing to Trample American, Israeli Flags

Iranian university students refusing to trample American and Israeli flags. Photo: Twitter screenshot. Video emerged on Sunday of students at …

Politics | Iran

Iran Opens Fire On Demonstrators. Protesters Chant: ‘Our Enemy Is Right Here; They Lie To Us That It’s America’ |

The Iranian government opened fire with live ammunition against demonstrators who were protesting the Islamic regime for shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane last week and lying about it for days. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which i

Politics | Iran

U.S. Forces Followed Soleimani On Road During Airstrike, Reveal What They Found On Him | The Daily Wire

U.S. Special Operations forces were only a few hundred yards behind Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) commander Qasem Soleimani last week when an American Reaper drone shot a hellfire missile at his vehicle, killing him, as he and oth

News | The News

BREAKING: Video Appears To Show Missile Hitting Passenger Plane In Iran

Video obtained and verified by The New York Times on Thursday appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane near Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, the same area where a Ukrainian passenger plane went down earlier this week. “A smal

Politics | Iran

Iran claims victory in the Honor/Shame Theater - and to all appearances, Trump's calculations were correct

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Politics | Iran

‘More aggressive SINCE the agreement’: AG takes Obama-cult defending his precious Iran Nuclear Deal apart in thread

Yeah, Obama's deal sucked. You're welcome.

Miscellaneous | Interesting

What Is the Middle East In the Middle Of Anymore?

Since World War II, the United States has been involved in a series of crises and wars in the Middle East on the premise of protecting U.S., Western, or global interests, or purportedly all three combined. Since antiquity, the Middle East has been the hub

Politics | Iran

Petraeus on Soleimani Airstrike: 'This is Bigger Than Bin Laden' and Baghdadi's Death

Former CIA Director David Petraeus characterized the U.S. drone airstrike that killed Iran's top military commander, Qassem Soleimani, as "bigger" than the raid that killed former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the