Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

With Joebama in the WHI, the Jew-haters are unleashed

Israel remains perennially in the dock at that kangaroo court

Yossi Cohen, the Mossad chief and wonder-worker who is straight out of Central Casting, has a list of issues he would like to raise with the Biden Administration as it considers whether, when, and exactly with what undertakings by Iran, it will rejoin the JCPOA nuclear deal. The visit, and what will be discussed, is…

….. to discuss the terror state of Iran.

Sheesh.

Syria is now, and will be for decades to come, an economic basket case. Five million Syrians have fled the country, six million are internally displaced. They need peace.

As is well known, the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik, based in Damascus, planted his flag on the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism and the site from where, he wanted Muslims to believe, Muhammad had ascended to Heaven on his winged steed Buraq, in his famous Night Journey. Abd al-Malik built what he called…

The attempt by the Palestinians to arrogate to themselves alone the decision as to who can visit, and who is barred, from al-Aqsa, sticks in the craw of the Emiratis, and of other Muslims too. The Palestinians’ behavior violates the agreed-upon rules; it is the Jordanians who possess the custodianship of the Haram al-Sharif, and…

Peace-hating jihadis have burned Emirati flags, and defaced, stomped on, and set fire to, images of the Emirati Crown Prince, Muhammad bin Zayed. PA President Mahmoud Abbas has raged in Ramallah, denouncing the Emiratis in spittle-flecked impotent fury.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Arabs from the Emirates and Bahrain are landing in Tel Aviv to make deals, and Israelis are going to Doha and Manama to do the same.

The notion of any huge oil corporations doing business in Israel was unthinkable since they were among the primary enablers of the Islamic boycott of the Jewish state….

Defunding terror.

While the PA staggered from one comical debacle to another, Israel moved from strength to strength.

Suhail Nafal first posted in 2018 at Facebook a photograph of Rebecca Rum, in her IDF uniform, next to a photograph of Razan al-Najar, who was killed while attending one of those violent demonstrations at Israel’s security fence known collectively as the Great March of Return. After someone discovered what Nafal already knew – that…

A Palestinian BDS activist, one Suhair Nafal, in June 2018 posted on Facebook photograph of a young female IDF soldier, identified by name as Rebecca Rum, right next to a photo of a Palestinian woman who was killed during one of the Great March of Return protest riots in 2018. The implication was clear: that…

For decades, the Palestinian Arabs have viewed the Arab states — that is, the rich Arab states of the Gulf that have been dutifully supporting them — as reliable funders, ATMs with flags. No longer.

Part 1: Jordanian PM Omar Razzaz on the “Single-State Solution” Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz proclaims that if there is no prospect of a “two-state solution” to the Arab-Israeli conflict – by this he means if there is no prospect of a solution that meets the Arabs’ maximalist demands – then the Arabs should support…

 The so-called “single-state solution” would mean the death of Israel as a Jewish state. No wonder the Jordanian P. M. Omar Razzaz supports it.

The Israeli settlers’ movement is angry with Prime Minister Minister Netanyahu, who, they believe, had deceived them into thinking he would extend Israeli sovereignty over part, or even all, of the West Bank. But now he has agreed “to suspend” any such move, in order to make possible the UAE-Israel agreement to normalize relations. For…

More from the article in Israel Hayom on settlers’ mistrust of Netanyahu: Polls have shown wide support in Israel for the UAE deal. But the ideological settler leadership has significant political clout, and has long been a bastion of Netanyahu’s support. Aware that he might lose their backing to parties even more hawkish than his own,…

The Israelis have been steadily, relentlessly, conducting a bombing campaign in Syria, in order to prevent Iran from building its own permanent bases inside the county and, especially, from delivering to Hezbollah operatives precision-guided missiles. After each attack, Iran threatens to retaliate, but somehow never manages to follow through. And the same goes for its…

Although it is hard to imagine now, not so long ago Hezbollah was popular in Lebanon as the self-proclaimed center of “national resistance” to Israel. It had fought Israel to a 33-day standstill, or so it claimed, seemingly oblivious to the vast damage the IDF had inflicted on it and, because Hezbollah had hidden weapons…

The Palestinian Authority gives lots of money to Arab terrorists, if they are in prison, and to their families, if they are dead. It’s a very generous amount, more than any of those terrorists could ever have earned by working. And the more people they kill, the more money they receive. These “martyrs” have, according…

The German magazine Der Spiegel, which has a history of anti-Israel bias, in late June was at it again, publishing an article that appeared at first to blame the Israeli police for shooting an inoffensive Palestinian.

Of course the Arab states will continue to vote in support of the Palestinians at the U.N., and to make pro-forma statements, verbal boilerplate on their behalf. That costs the Arabs nothing. A few of the richest states — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar — will donate what for them are trivial sums, to…

A new book by two Israelis, The War of Return, describes the changes in how the Arabs – not the Palestinians, but all the others – now view the “right of return.” They appear to have lost interest in the matter, believe that the Palestinians should stop pretending they will ever “return” to places they…

On May 21, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Israel that its planned annexation of parts of the West Bank could lead to an escalation of violence in the region. It’s possible, of course, but history suggests that it is even more possible that such annexation would in the long term improve the chances for…

Old dog same tricks.

On April 24, the Islamic Republic launched a cyberattack on Israel’s water system. Had it succeeded, Israel’s water supply might have been severely damaged, with too much chlorine poured in, making it unfit for human consumption. Israel’s cyber defense systems identified and blocked the attack before it did more than disable a few pumps for…

Not content with having misused campaign funds in Minnesota for out-of-state travel, not content with having – apparently — married her own brother in order to commit immigration and student-loan fraud, not content with having been – apparently — married to one man at the same time as she declared on her tax returns, two years running, that she was married to another, not content with having committed adultery with her campaign consultant, to whom she paid unusually large sums, both when they were lovers and now that they are married to one another, llhan Omar continues to have a problem with “benjamins.” Those are the 100-dollar bills with Benjamin Franklin’s face on them; “benjamins” is Omar’s synecdoche for money, lots of it.

Many Muslim clerics and leaders have been coming up with outlandish theories about the origin of the coronavirus. Some say it was sent by Allah to punish China for its mistreatment of the Muslim Uighurs (the imam who first said it came down with the coronavirus two days after making this claim). Others have said…

The peace treaty between Israel and Jordan has become shakier.

Brave.

A brave man.

Very few people—non-Muslims, that is — in the West know that the Qur’an describes Muslims as the “best of peoples” and non-Muslims as “the most vile of created beings.” It sounds like something made up by “islamophobes” to blacken the good name of Islam – but, alas, neither description is made up; both are found…

Giovanni Gasparro has for the past decade been the favorite painter of Catholic clerics in Italy, who have commissioned him to produce works for a half-dozen churches and the restored Basilica of San Giovanni Artigiano in L’Aquila. Ben Cohen at algemeiner.com describes his success with Church patrons: Gasparro has exhibited his work in Italy and…

Here are just four of those Israeli advances:

Giovanni Gasparro is a 36-year-old figurative painter who lives in Bari, Italy. He specializes in Christian devotional themes. He has painted a lot of saints, in tutte le salse. Unsurprisingly, he has received commissions from local churches and dioceses around Italy. Gasparro is also a nauseating antisemite, whose latest effort shows a Christian child, little…

  There have been several high-profile defectors from Iran recently. There is a female chess umpire, Shohreh Bayat (above), who was videotaped doing her job at an international tournament. At one point, she removed her hijab – and then put it back on – but she was caught on camera without the hijab; there was…

And the world demands we ‘respect” it.

The Islamic world’s political dementia

Too little, too late.

There has been a sea change in policy

The Great March of Return has ended with not a bang, but a whimper.

Another preposterous claim – respect it!

While UNRWA’s biggest shots are still being investigated for every sort of scandalous personal behavior – financial and sexual – let’s hope investigators will also look into the case of Chris Gunness.

Naturally, the closer the ties, the warmer the relations, between Israel and some powerful Arab states – Saudi Arabia and the UAE — the more enraged the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza become.

At the moment, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have no better friend in the long war against Iran than the previously-shunned Jewish State.

It was unlikely before their latest stunning defeats. Now?