The concept of dismissing the Jewish state as a country due to dislike of its leadership and policies must come to an end. From Seth Frantzman.
Mark Episkopos
Technology, Middle East
Contrary to popular belief, the concept of energy-based weaponry is neither novel nor futuristic.
Here's What You Need to Remember: It can become a cornerstone of the IDF’s capacity to destroy very...
Legend has it that when the Muslims conquered Jerusalem in the year 637, Sophronius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, invited the caliph Umar to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Umar declined, explaining that if he did, the Muslims would convert...
Related topics: Turkey, Religion, Jerusalem
Michael Peck
Security, Asia
Like drones in general, loitering munitions can be hard to detect and shoot down, especially the smaller models.
Here's What You Need To Remember: Suicide drones have been developed by the United States and...
Related topics: China, Drones
It has frequently been the case that when a crisis erupts in Palestine, for example when Israel launched Operation Protective Edge against Gaza in July 2014, artists around the world respond by producing posters in solidarity with Palestine. These...
Related topics: Protests, Palestine, Gaza Strip
The Latest: 6,225 Palestinians have tested positive for COVID-19; 5,479 in the West Bank; 72 in the Gaza Strip; and 674 in East Jerusalem 30 Palestinians have died of COVID-19 related causes35,631 people in Israel have tested positive for...
Related topics: Palestine, Gaza Strip, Jerusalem
With an unprecedented new surge in coronavirus cases battering Israel's economy, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confidants was dispatched to a TV studio recently to calm the nerves of a jittery nation. Instead, he dismissed...
Related topics: Benjamin Netanyahu
(Scott Johnson) Reuters notes in its report from Dubai last night regarding an explosion in western Tehran today: “There have been several explosions around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.” Jerusalem...
Related topics: Iran, Reuters, United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Tehran, Military, Jerusalem
Spencer Wells is a geneticist, a co-owner of Antone’s, blues bar in Austin, and – some would say — an antisemite, if we may be permitted to thus describe someone who has murderous fantasies about destroying Israel and its apartheid-loving...
Related topics: Apartheid
Matthew Petti
Security, Middle East
“If Israel really annexed the West Bank . . . it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” — King Abdullah II
King Abdullah II of Jordan talked on the phone with Secretary of...
Related topics: Mike Pompeo
One good thing about Israel’s annexation push is the crisis in the Israel lobby. Powerful rightwing Jewish groups that are holding the bag for Netanyahu have been exposed as moral dimwits. AIPAC and the American Jewish Committee are in freefall...
Related topics: Benjamin Netanyahu
Ramzy BaroudIsrael began utilizing the occupied territories as if they are contiguous and permanent parts of so-called Israel proper, immediately following the June 1967 war. (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Related topics: World Photos
They’re fundraising for Antone Melton-Meaux, Omar’s primary challenger.
Ancient humans deliberately collected perforated shells in order to string them together as beads, according to a study published July 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Iris...
Related topics: Tel,aviv
Establishing a unitary Israeli-Palestinian state would end Israel's ideological essence and its functional existence.
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Zachary Keck
History, Middle East
An surprising story.
Key Point: In 1958, Israel turned to sympathetic Americans for help.
Although Israel doesn’t officially acknowledge it, it is well understood that the country possesses a nuclear...
Kyle Mizokami
Security, Middle East
They know how to make some serious weapons.
Key Point: Israel has made many guns for self-defense. Here are some of the best.
Much of Israel’s history has, for better or worse, been written with guns. From...
Palestine is at a tipping point. The pandemic is spiking in overcrowded refugee camps, villages and Palestinian cities. Israel is planning its illegal and immoral annexation of what’s left of historic Palestine. And the world looks away....
Related topics: Palestine
For decades the Palestinians found that their “cause’ – that is, the destruction of the state of Israel and its replacement by an Arab “Palestine” – kept them at the center of the Arab World’s attention, and the object of its support...
Related topics: Palestine
The government says weddings are the main culprit, but critics blame politics for the public health failure.