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In the past week, Hamas has been sending Palestinians to the Gaza-Israel border, where they attack IDF soldiers, hurling rocks, Molotov cocktails, and firebombs at them, as they try to breach Israel’s security fence. But the Palestinian journalist Khaled Abu Toameh argues that Hamas’ real target is not Israel, but Qatar. More on his analysis can be found here: “Why is Hamas Sending Palestinians to Die at the Border with Israel?,” by Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute, September 26, 2023:During the past few days, the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas has again been encouraging Palestinians living under its rule in...

This video segment from VOA News describes how many Gazans trace their roots to Kurdistan.Of course, we knew this. There are plenty of Palestinians with the last name "el-Kurd" or "el-Kurdi," and many prominent Palestinian families proudly trace their roots to Arabia or Syria or Morocco or Turkey and everywhere else.Here is my latest list of Palestinian surnames and where they appear to have originated:AbbasIraqAbdil-Masih (Beit Sahour)TurkeyAbidSudanAbu Aita (Beit Sahour)TurkeyAbu GhoshEurope/11th centuryAbu SittaEgyptAbu-KishkEgyptAdwanArabiaAfghani AfghanistanAjami IranAl HafiIraqAlamiMoroccoAlami MoroccoAlawi SyriaAl-Hayik (Beit Sahour)TurkeyArafatSyriaArajMoroccoAramshaEgyptArashiEgyptAshrawiYemenAwwadEgyptAzd, Azad YemenBadraEgyptBaghdadi IraqBannaEgyptBannouraEgyptBardawil EgyptBarghoutiYemen (may be Jewish)Bushnak BosniaChehayberTurkeyDajaniArabia via SpainDarjaniArabiaDjazair AlgeriaDoghmushTurkeyErekatJordanFakikiMoroccoFaranjiFranceFaruqiIraqFayumiEgyptFilaliMoroccoGharubEgyptGhassanLebanonHaddadinYemenHalabi SyriaHamisBahrainHammoudaTransjordanHannouneh (Beit Sahour)TurkeyHashlamunKurdistanHijazi ArabiaHindi IndiaHourani SyriaHusseiniArabiaIbrahim (Beit Sahour)TurkeyIraki IraqIssaArrived...

Arabs Read Hitler "My Struggle" Becomes Best Seller Among Anti-Semitics. BERLIN. November 26 (AP). -- Arabs, who join with Nazi Germany in antagonism to Jews, are reading Adolf Hitler's book "My Struggle." The Fuehrer's autobiography, with its anti-Semitic theroies, has been translated into Arabic and already is a best seller in Palestine, German newspapers say. The German edition once was barred in Palestine during the high point of Jewish immigration there, but Arabs who fought the Jewish influx, are reported much interested in the new translation.Nebraska State Journal Archives, Nov 26, 1936, p. 2 - NewspaperArchive

... a minute of breaking cruelty. Animalistic. And there are the randomness: dozens of Jaffa Arabs, one probably does not know each other, joining together, from the moment to the moment, like the Lynch in Ramallah, to abuse the Jew. Dror Tamir, 43, who went for a walk the, on the sidewalk on Yefet Street in Jaffo, fell victim - was pushed by an Arab female. ...about 10 Arabs ran towards him. The first jumped and kicked him to the stomach. His ribs cracked. The second, with the blue vest and white T-shirt punched in his face, the others continued...

Near kindergartens in the Amishev neighborhood in Ramla, today (Sunday) shocked parents of the kindergarten children discovered a nasty inscription spray-painted by Arabs on one of the nearby buildings that read: "Hitler the man." Following the incident, a complaint was filed with the police...

clipAnother obvious play by two Arab "Palestinian" women "mourning/lamenting" solely for the cameras. One "cries" and ger fruend "hold her", while a third woman waves with her hands all inflamed, supposedly. Checking if the cameraman is still there... He isn't. The trio stops in an instance. The show. Abu Ali @Abualiexpress Tweeted :Hebron and the art of the mourning/lamenting .... Possible dubbing of the 10th second in the video: The photographer has already left? Can one stop mourning/lamenting? turned out good? Dec 28, 2021https://twitter.com/Abualiexpress/status/1475837265607802886 A Tweeter (N.P.) replied:Reminds me that I was in Hebron at the police checkpoint 'Chasam Shoter'....

Abbas discussed with Blinken means of reviving the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, ...reopening the US Consulate in Jerusalem.... and the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s (PLO) headquarters in Washington. Talks also tackled the resumption of 'US financial support to the Palestinian Authority', which was suspended by former President Donald Trump. Blinken, for his part, stressed that the US is committed to rebuilding its relationship with the PA and Palestinian people. He said the American administration has been focused on concrete ways to help improve the lives of Palestinians, including rejoining UNRWA and providing half a billion dollars in humanitarian assistance since April 2021,...

Since the Democrats took control of the White House and both Houses of Congress a hundred days ago, the Middle East has become a powder keg. But Israel's ruling class sees nothing. In Afghanistan and Iraq, violent attacks against US forces are rising steeply. From January through April, attacks on US forces increased 40%. President Joe Biden's announcement that the US will withdraw its forces from the country by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the jihadist attacks on the US worsened the situation by communicating a message of profound American weakness and defeatism. The Taliban, al-Qaida and Iran clearly...

Israeli authorities faced more violence last night after a recent spate of shootings and as tensions soar over the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinians from East Jerusalem. Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinians and seriously wounded a third after they opened fire with makeshift submachine guns on a base in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning, Israel’s police said. That came two days after Israeli student Yehuda Guetta, 19, died in a hospital from injuries sustained in a drive-by shooting Sunday as he was standing at a bus station near the West Bank city of Nablus. Two...

Syria’s air defenses responded to an Israeli attack in the Damascus countryside, according to state media. The report comes after a blast near Israel’s nuclear plant, which IDF pinned on a missile launched from Syria. The Israeli strike reportedly targeted a site in al-Dumayr, located some 24 miles (40km) from the Syrian capital, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported early on Thursday morning. The country’s air defenses were said to have intercepted “most of the enemy missiles,” according to a military spokesman. “The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression with bursts of missiles from the direction of the...

Israel's Annexation Plan of the Jordan Valley European thinking, Abdullah’s reaction, and Israel’s rights. Thu May 28, 2020 Joseph Puder The new Israeli government is considering extending Israeli law and sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, which is within area C of the Oslo Accords. The Accords, which gave Israel both military and administrative control in the area, also contains a large bloc of Jewish-Israeli communities. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a short visit to Israel (April 22, 2020) told reporters: “As for annexation of the (Jordan Valley) West Bank, the Israelis will ultimately make those decisions.” He added,...

Hundreds of tents are to be erected near the Gaza-Israel border for a six-week protest, officials said Thursday, in what may stir fresh tensions with Israeli forces. Gaza families are to set up hundreds of tents -- possibly thousands - for the protests running from March 30 to May 15, organizers said. Protesters plan to call for the granting of a right of return for millions of so-called “Palestinian refugees” across the Middle East. Organizers said the families could stay in the tents for prolonged periods, with youth and community activities planned. The demonstration has the backing of all political...

JNS.org – Canadian indigenous rights activist Ryan Bellerose recently visited Israel, where he filmed a video in support of the Jewish state in coordination with the Israel education and advocacy group StandWithUs. “Indigenous status means that your people had a coalescence and a genesis on the land,” said Bellerose, who founded the pro-Israel group Calgary United with Israel, in the widely watched video. “Everything that makes Jews Jewish—their spirituality, their traditions, their culture, their language, everything—it stems from Israel.” Bellerose belongs to the Métis community, a native group recognized by the Canadian government as aboriginal. He is also a Zionist...

The IDF Civil Administration on Monday morning dismantled and seized seven portable structures and other building parts that had not yet been assembled in E1, a strategic corridor connecting Jerusalem with Ma'ale Adumim to the east. The structures were set up illegally without permits apparently in the last several days, in the latest Arab land grab attempt in the key region. Jerusalem Belt Forum praised the law enforcement, saying, "we welcome the (Civil) Administration for its enforcement activity this morning." "At the same time, we are witnesses in recent days to a phenomenon in which the Palestinians and the European...

Speakers at a Wednesday evening University of London Student Union (ULSU)-sponsored panel called for the destruction of Israel as a solution to ridding the world of antisemitism, The Algemeiner has learned from a British watchdog group. According to a UK Media Watch report, several panelists issued the calls during an event centered on the theme of antisemitism in the Labour Party and how the current scandal is being used to silence critics of Israel and bring down party leader Jeremy Corbyn. A leaflet handed out at the beginning of the panel, titled “Labour Jews Assert,” stated, “some people…are wielding ‘antisemitism’...

There are some resemblances to a traditional children’s carnival. The children are dressed in beautiful, bright colors. Young girls are bearing flowers in their hair, and the children moving around to loud, fun music, waving flags and singing songs. The one exception at this children’s festival in Gaza is that the songs, musical acts and dances are about guns, bombs and killing Israeli soldiers. It’s the eighth annual Khan Yunis festival and hundreds of young children seated in a stadium watch the show—one in which other children dance around role playing the killing of Israeli citizens, the waving of guns...

A Fake Museum for a Fake Palestine The Palestinian Museum is as empty as its soul. May 20, 2016 Daniel Greenfield    Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. 150 years ago, Mark Twain visited Muslim-occupied Israel and wrote of “unpeopled deserts” and “mounds of barrenness,” of “forlorn” and “untenanted” cities. Palestine is “desolate,” he concluded. “One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings.” The same is true of the Palestinian Museum which opened with much fanfare and one slight problem. While admission is free,...

A school built in Gaza using German funds is educating their students on hatred and violence for Israel and providing children with military training At the end of March, a Hamas-affiliated news agency distributed a video showing a Palestinian teacher indoctrinating school children with hatred for Israel and support for an armed struggle against it. The teacher used the letters of the Arabic alphabet as a didactic tool to teach them "the fundamental Palestinian national principles" even before they learn to read. The video did not specify the name of the school; however, data collected by the Intelligence and Terrorism...

The European Union on Saturday called on Israel to halt the demolition of illegal Palestinian buildings, some of which are EU-funded, and reiterated its opposition to building Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. "In the past weeks there have been a number of developments in Area C of the West Bank, which risk undermining the viability of a future Palestinian state and driving the parties yet further apart," the EU diplomatic service said in a statement. It referred to Israel's decision on January 25 to declare 154 hectares (380 acres) of land near Jericho in Judea as state land, with...

Mabye it was because the interview was with the Dubai based Al-Aribiya instead of Western media, and Martin Day, British government spokesman, was more than candid of his governments "anti-Israel political activities" inside the State of Israel: There is this report today in JPost that the rest of the MSM, at the time of this post, has not bothered to cover: "British spokesman Martin Day said in an interview in Dubai with Al-Arabiya television last week that the British government was "taking practical steps towards freezing settlement activities." "For instance," Day said, "we finance projects aimed at halting settlement activities....