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Jun 28, 2018, 4:45 PM

Why the Right of Return is a recipe for war

The prospect of Donald Trump presenting a future US peace plan which excludes Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees has led to a single-minded focus by Palestinians and their supporters on their Right of Return. The leader of the UK opposition,...

Jun 28, 2018, 2:07 PM

Royal visit was a shrewd move

The moment finally arrived after decades of waiting, spurious snubs and the uncomfortable unanswered question of why the royal family has never visited Israel. Prince William’s Middle East tour was a diplomatic triumph because his warmth, empathy and natural charm...

Jun 26, 2018, 6:39 PM

'We want to set fire to Israel'

File: Israeli firefighters battle a blaze in a field in southern Israel caused by kites flown by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on June 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Only the Palestinians use displacement as an excuse for terror tactics, as if they are justifiable

Jun 25, 2018, 7:35 PM

Memoirs of a Delusional Palestinian

In the early morning hours of August 10, 2005, we arrived at the soon-to-be former Jewish settlement of Netzarim, a few kilometres southwest of Gaza City. From a distance, we could see the taillights of the Israeli military vehicles...

Jun 20, 2018, 7:11 PM

The Palestinian Authority as a mental institution

Once I read somewhere a political joke, which to the best of my recollection was to the effect that the difference between Israel and a mental hospital is that the latter is run by sane adults. Whoever thought of the...

Jun 15, 2018, 11:25 AM

What’s stopping Israel from completing the separation barrier?

The Separation Barrier, the construction of which began in 2002, is one of several contributing factors to the fall in terror attacks committed against Israelis since the second Intifada. There is no doubt that the presence of the barrier...

Kenneth Jacobson

Jun 9, 2018, 1:50 AM

Feeding Palestinian illusions

The international community needs to stop supporting armed struggle and help the Palestinians get real about peace

Michael Eisenberg

May 29, 2018, 8:52 PM

To repair Gaza, first do some harm

Illustrative: Palestinian children do their homework by candlelight during a power outage in Gaza City on September 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

A 30-year plan to change Palestinian attitudes, and yield prosperity and peace

May 28, 2018, 2:23 PM

Deir Yassin: There was no massacre

In this 1948 photo from the UNRWA archive, Palestinian refugees stand outside their tent in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. (photo credit: AP/UNRWA Photo Archives)

A founding myth of the Palestinian narrative was a fabrication that drove thousands of Arabs to panic and flee

May 21, 2018, 4:58 PM

The best advice now is to read, learn and just shut up

I swore I wouldn’t do it. I promised myself: it’s a really bad idea, it’s a surefire path to aggravation and recrimination. But it seems there is no end to the litany of self-righteous “expertise” on the whole dreadful, bloody,...

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