At the Arab League summit last week, Abbas said to the Arab states: “If you want war, and if all of you will fight Israel, we are in favor. But the Palestinians will not fight alone because they don’t have the ability to do it.” And now this (thanks to…

This is the “moderate” whose faction is being aided financially and militarily by the State Department. And deep down, Abbas really, really wants peace! “Palestinian leader calls for Arab invasion of Israel,” from Israel Today, July 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, branded a…

But deep down, they really, really, want peace! “Hamas Leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: Our Plan Is to Establish a Palestinian State Without Recognizing Israel and Without Giving Up the Right of Return,” from MEMRITV, June 15: Following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, which aired on Future…

While Obama made false parallels between Jews and Arabs as contributors to the intractability of the Middle East conflict and rewrote some history [in his June 4th speech to the Muslim world], he also said in no uncertain terms that it was Palestinians who had to renounce violence (and here he drew no parallels and [...]

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan might be shocked if she knew a bit more about Aharon Barak, the former president of the Israeli Supreme Court, and the man whom she strongly and warmly praised during her confirmation hearings this week.
Kagan described Barak as the “John Marshall of the state of Israel because he was [...]

According to Larry Derfner in the Jerusalem Post, anyway. In his recent article, Derfner suggests that while Jewish Israelis would like to see a two-state solution, the truth is that they really, really dislike Palestinians.
In 25 years, I have never seen this country so blindly contemptuous of everybody and everything Arab, so drawn to [...]

The end times have surely come: the UNRWA has actually blamed the Palestinians for bringing their own misery upon themselves. “UNWRA [sic] criticizes Palestinian infighting,” from the Jerusalem Post, June 27 (thanks to Marc): The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) called on the different Palestinian factions Sunday to stop…

But deep down, they really, really want peace! Note that this is Fatah TV. Fatah is the “moderate” Palestinian Authority faction that the U.S. government favors with money and even military training. “PA TV host to children: Jews are ‘our enemies’ – Israeli soldiers are ‘wild animals,’” by Itamar…

This was left on Chris Pryor’s post yesterday:

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Why has stumbleupon constantly been sending me to pro-Israel news column sites (unsurprisingly mostly written by Jews) in the past few days? Any hoo, these sites have proven to me that Israelis are religious zealots as much as the Palestinians are. If they weren’t trying to fulfill [...]

But deep down, they really, really want peace! “Hamas official: Palestinians should fire at Israel from West Bank,” from Haaretz, June 20 (thanks to Maxwell): Palestinians should initiate rocket attacks on Israel from the West Bank, Israel Radio quoted Hamas strongman Mahmoud Zahar as saying in an interview on Sunday,…