Digital surveillance and smartphone technology may prove helpful in containing the coronavirus pandemic — but some activists fear this could mean lasting harm to privacy and digital rights. From China to Singapore to Israel, governments have...
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It’s little, it’s late, it’s tentative, but it is no longer a denial. Occasionally an honest and bold commentator mentions the unmentionable in the Israeli media: Jewish dhimmitude under Islam. It usually doesn’t get very far. The Jerusalem...
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Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has praised the coordination between the Israeli and Palestine authorities in reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Land theft / Ethnic cleansing / Settlements During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank B’Tselem 26 Mar — This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from...
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Pompeo accuses Venezuelan Pres. of narco-terrorism; Military deploys in all 50 states; Israel's Gantz steps aside, paving way for Netanyahu
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Sebastien Roblin
Technology, Middle East
And Assad hates them.
Key point: Israeli warplanes have launched hundreds of strikes on targets in Syria since the start of the civil war, seeking to disrupt arms transfers to Hezbollah and the buildup of...
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Even as Israel struggles with the novel coronavirus, it appears that a year-long political struggle, which had held the system in a state of paralysis, has reached resolution. Indeed, COVID-19, more than any other factor, was the element responsible...
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They measure time differently here in the oldest section of one of the world’s oldest cities, the ancient, dispute-riddled and spiritually dense center of three major religions. Yet it takes an eternity to recall the last time Christians, Jews and...
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A counterattack tweeted by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) came in response to rocket fire reported earlier from Gaza that was claimed to be aimed at Israeli civilians.
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Tawfiq Tirawi is more forthright than most, but what he says here is, contrary to popular belief, the common view among the “Palestinian” leadership. Find out why in The Palestinian Delusion. “Despite Corona crisis: PA’s 1967...
Has the coronavirus saved Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? The sense of urgency created by the pandemic has opened the way for the right-wing premier to stay in power as head of a “corona government” despite his corruption...
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After three weeks of a relatively slow growth rate of coronavirus cases in Palestine, things took a turn for the worse this week, as the number jumped from 62 to 91 in just two days. While 91 is a shockingly low number compared to Israel, which has...
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The Israel lobby group J Street had a webinar today in which its leaders declared two silver linings from the stunning elevation of Netanyahu yesterday that ends a year of political stalemate: 1, Benny Gantz may have betrayed the Israeli center that...
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Some studies earlier suggested that the new coronavirus had been caused by bats, and although this theory has not been confirmed, Israeli media has suggested that that the recent mysterious deaths of the nocturnal creatures could have come as a...
(Scott Johnson) In a logical and therefore surprising conclusion to Israel’s long-standing political paralysis, Benny Gantz has agreed to form a unity government with current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As I understand the status of...
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Michael Peck
Security, Middle East
Long-range airstrikes require lots of plane fuel.
Key point: New aerial tankers by themselves won’t guarantee the success of an Israeli strike on Iran. But they do make it a little easier.
If Israel does...
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The conclusions of a probe by senior Israeli brass into a January incident at Hatzor Air Base that caused millions of dollars in damage to F-16 fighter jets found that while the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) failed to prepare for the floods, the...
Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah charges that American pressure influenced the Lebanese government to release former SLA member Amer Fakhoury, the "Butcher of Kiam", who was accused of torturing prisoners during Israel's occupation of south Lebanon.
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Priorities, priorities. The Islamic Republic, quite understandably, wants to keep the most dangerous prisoners locked up. “Iran refuses to release Christian prisoners despite coronavirus outbreak,” by Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post,...
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Americans, and indeed all people of good will, should be pleased to see that Israel finally has broken its 15-month political impasse.
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