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

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Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

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

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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

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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).

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Hamas newspaper upset that David Friedman did "Talmudic prayers" on Netanyahu's plane

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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

News | Pallywood

Just another #Pallywood moment - a fake "100 year old Palestinian grandpa"

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Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Israeli Electric Company Ends Power Cuts to West Bank After Palestinians Pay Debt

A view shows Palestinian houses as an Israeli power distribution plant is seen in the background in Hebron in the …

Winning!

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 | News

In milestone, Israel starts exporting natural gas to Egypt | The Times of Israel

Jerusalem's and Cairo's energy ministries issue rare joint statement announcing implementation of estimated $19.5 billion deal to pump gas from 2 massive offshore gas fields

This is a minor miracle. It would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. Israel wasn't an energy producer, it imported most of its energy. The Arab countries were the energy producers. Not anymore thank G-d!

Politics | Opinion

Will Arab anti-Zionism revive? | The Jerusalem post

The old wall of Arab anti-Zionism has fractured, but lingering hostility against Israel could explode anew.

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 | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Gazan with "New York" T-Shirt and Superman cap participates in "Death To America" event

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Not the brightest.

Science & Technology | Israeli Innovation

Israel unveils breakthrough laser to intercept missiles, aerial threats

Technology expected to take down a variety of aerial threats including rockets, drones, anti-tank missiles.

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

How the Palestinians Manipulate the International Criminal Court Against Israel | HonestReporting

A sustained campaign has turned the ICC against Israel, and made it into a political tool, despite its lack of jurisdiction, and against the intentions of the court's founders.

Politics | Iran

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

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Politics | Opinion

Don’t confuse me with facts: It’s always about the ‘occupation’

The American Jewish left has once again fallen in line with the Palestinian demand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict always be conflated to a problem of “occupation,” regardless of facts or history.

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.

News | News

Iran not expected to strike Israel in response to Soleimani killing | The Jerusalem Post

The security cabinet convened to discuss the security situation following the US strike on the Iranian general.

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

News | News

Veteran Israeli Analyst Says Assassination of Soleimani Second Only to Execution of Holocaust Architect Reinhard Heydrich

SS officer Reinhard Heydrich’s car after a 1942 assassination attempt in Prague. Heydrich later died of his injuries. Photo: German …

Politics | Hamas, Gaza & The West Bank

Some of the Barracks in “Concentration Camp” Gaza | Israellycool

Some of the properties on offer from OSOSS Real Estate, a real estate company located in Gaza

Politics | Politics

BREAKING: Thousands Of Terrorist Supporters Storm U.S. Embassy In Baghdad After U.S. Strikes Kill Dozens Of Terrorists

Thousands of terrorists’ supporters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday after the U.S. killed dozens of terrorists from an Iranian-backed terrorist organization earlier this week. The terrorist supporters who attacked the U.S. Embassy did so in

Politics | Opinion

Israel needs to say categorically that enabling Jews to live in the West Bank is not a war crime

Israel needs to say categorically that enabling Jews to live in the West Bank is not a war crime.

Politics | Resources

If You Hate Israel, You're No Friend of the Jews | PragerU

It’s one thing to criticize Israel. It’s another thing entirely to be against the very existence of the Jewish state. In this clarifying video, Dennis Prager defines the difference and explains why anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are one and the same.

News | News

Third Elections Appear Inevitable in Israel, as Coalition Efforts Remain Stuck in Logjam

Benny Gantz, Avigdor Lieberman and Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Reuters /Ronen Zvulun, Nir Elias, Amir Cohen / File. Israeli politics remained …

News | News

Inside Rawabi: A new West Bank city built by a Palestinian for Palestinians

For the first time in over a thousand years, a new, planned Palestinian city is rising. Bill Whitaker reports from the West Bank on Rawabi.

Just watched this and thought it was an interesting piece. I am not taking sides and don't want to engage so I blocked user comments.

Politics | Opinion

Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’

The Jewish community of Beit El in Judea and Samaria. Photo: Yaakov via Wikimedia Commons. I have written before about …

News | News

Israel to provide Security Council with data on Iranian nuclear violations

European powers on Wednesday filed a grievance with the UN over what they said was a blatant Iranian violation of

Politics | Iran

‘Unprecedented’: Iran Kills Hundreds Of Unarmed Protesters, Quran Expert Warns It May Kill Thousands In Crackdown | The

A brutal crackdown by the Iranian government has left at least 180 demonstrators dead after they participated in protests that were initially sparked by an unexpected increase in fuel prices. “Altogether, from 180 to 450 people, and possibly more, w

Politics | Campus Watch

In Survey, UC Berkeley Prof. Finds Most Students ‘Passionate’ About ‘Israeli Occupation’ Can’t Find Palestinian Territories on Map

Israeli security forces gather at the scene of a Palestinian terrorist attack near the West Bank settlement of Dolev, Aug. …

Eighty-four percent of those in the most passionate cohort could not name the decade when Israel captured the West Bank, while 75 percent could not locate the Palestinian territories in question on a map. Twenty-five percent “of these students placed the Palestinian Territories west of Lebanon, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea,” Hassner wrote. “The class average for this blunder was 14%.”

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Arab States Are Claiming the Heritage of Their Expelled Jews

Iraqi Jews leaving Lod airport in Israel on their way to the Ma’abara transit camp, 1951. Photo: Israel Government Press …

Politics | Resources

Must Read: The Myth of 'Occupied Palestine'

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Monday that the United States will no longer consider Israel's settlements in the West Bank an inherent violation of international law. This policy shift comes in the wake of last week's ruling by the European

Politics | Media Bias

Did Media Pass Off Palestinian Rocket as Israeli Missile? | CAMERA

The New York Times runs a front-page AFP photo of a projectile over Gaza City, identifying it as an 'Israeli missile.' The founder of

Politics | Media Watch

Palestinian Terrorist Killed In Israeli Airstrike. AFP Calls Him Simply 'Palestinian.'

A Palestinian terrorist leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike Tuesday morning, yet the Agence France-Presse referred to him simply as a “Palestinian.” In a tweet thread announcing  the death of Baha Abu al-Ata, a senior leader of the militant group Pa

News | News

Victor Rosenthal - Keeping Our Honor in the Middle East

Victor Rosenthal – Keeping Our Honor in the Middle East What I’m about to write will probably be off-putting, even offensive to some Western readers. But it’s a subject that is extremely relevant to life in much of the rest of the world, especia

Sports | Surfing/SUPing

Paddle Boarding Israel | Supconnect.com

I bet you never thought of Israel as a great destination for SUP, surf, windsurf and kite! You’ll be surprised to discover in this article the wide va...

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Netanyahu Promises Aid To Kurds. Miss Iraq: That's Why I Stand With Israel

On Thursday, Sarai Idan, who was Miss Iraq, lauded Israel for its commitment to help the Kurdish people in the face of what Turkish dictator Recip Erdogan’s brutal assault on them. Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted Thursday morning, “Israe

Good for Bibi! Trump is 100% wrong on this one.

Politics | Other Politics

'POTUS went rogue': Trump's Syria move blindsides national security leaders - POLITICO

The White House’s announcement that U.S. forces are pulling back from northeastern Syria to allow a Turkish offensive there took the Pentagon and the government’s Syria point man by surprise ⁠— and the decision defied the current thinking of President Donald Trump's national security leaders.

News | ISRAEL NEWS

Netanyahu Seeking United Right-Religious Bloc for Coalition Talks | Jewish & Israel News

Laborers work on hanging up a Likud election campaign banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his party candidates, …

Sports | Cycling

Israeli Gravel Club - Arava January 2019

GRAVEL