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Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines official: Israeli and Palestinian futures are being held at gunpoint by a political party that controls Gaza.

By Patrick Goodenough | May 14, 2021 | 4:39am EDT Palestinians hoist the flag of the Hamas terrorist group on Monday atop Jerusalems al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam. (Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – Hamas’ decision to start a new round of hostilities by firing barrages of rockets into Israel this week was linked to internal Palestinian power struggles and the recent decision to postpone already long-overdue el...

When Presbyterian becomes synonymous with Jew-hate. Thu Apr 29, 2021 The Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) has been gradually moving to the radical left spectrum. Moderates have been leaving the church in droves in recent decades. As of 2019, the PCUSA membership numbered 1.3 million, down from 3.1 million in 1993. Its radical social justice agenda has come at the expense of traditional values. Chased away by the radicalization of the church, many have found the evangelical (Pro...

The IHRA definition is important for several reasons. The Biden administration has full-throatedly endorsed the IHRA definition, which is embedded in the Code of Federal Regulations posted on the active policy portal of the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights and included in a federal executive order. This means that universities will be held accountable under its terms, whether they adopt it or not. Administrators can ignore the definition, in the same sense that they can ign...

Mar 10, 2021 “I am grateful to Israel for doing everything they can to make sure I was vaccinated,” said Palestinian Bassem Eid in a recent video. “I am a Palestinian and I was vaccinated in Israel,” commented Bassem Eid in a clip posted to Twitter. The Palestinian resident of Jerusalem blasted groups like the BDS movement who “are saying that Israel only vaccinates Jews.” “This is a LIE! Israel is at the front lines of giving the #Covid19 vaccine to all,” concluded Eid, who ser...

Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images Dan Diker writes that it is  the Palestinian Authority which should take responsibility for vaccinating citizens in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and not Israel.  Matthias Kennes, a medic with the humanitarian and political group Doctors without Borders , has chronicled his experiences as a medical volunteer working to help Palestinians manage the Covid-19 pandemic in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the former West Bank of Jordan.  In an opinion p...

  The Palestinian Authority (PA) over the past week has reportedly ramped up its campaign against doing business with Israelis. On January 27, Ramallah reportedly ordered the closure of a Palestinian-owned cement factory accused of coordinating with Jewish communities located beyond the pre-1967 borders. Meanwhile, a Bethlehem court convicted a Palestinian man to 15 years of hard labor in prison for attempting to sell land to an Israeli. Indeed, the PA considers selling land in the West Bank, ...

A response to “The dark side of Israel’s vaccine success story”, Mail & Guardian, 13 January 2021

>> i am not talking here about the political culture. i am talking about the culture in general and i think they would make outstanding examples of people who push for liberalism and individualism. and i think i can use them. >> can you tell us which ones? >> the two i am referring to is wajeha al-huwaider and from syria to also push the envelope very much. you look at individuals who treasure their rights and their freedoms as individual int...