Author: Hugh Fitzgerald

 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?

The mismanagement of UNRWA, especially its bloated budget, at a time when the American contribution, UNRWA’s largest, has ended, is a large part of what ails the organization.

One swallow does not make a spring, but Ramaphosa’s speech is a very good sign.

The recent scandal at the very top of UNRWA has been about sex and money.

Hezbollah faces the biggest challenge to its existence since it was first founded in 1985

Will there come a time when the mainstream media, or some intrepid political figure, will dare to state the obvious?

Every so often we get a glimpse into the wretched lives of most Iranians – not that of the well-fed plump mullahs, not the sinisterly smiling Ayatollah Khamenei with his $250 billion business empire, not the IRGC commander threatening to set the whole Middle East aflame – but ordinary Iranians

“The headscarf itself is not desirable in our society” because of “what it says about the status of women, what it says about our values.”

The architecture critic of the New York Times, has rarely seen an Israeli project that he has liked.

Sheesh.

In the quiet suburb of Winchester, Massachusetts, signs have been found posted on poles, all bearing this enigmatic statement.

We are racist because we still lack human and ideological awareness. We are racist because we look down upon other races and nationalities

It’s long overdue. Defund campus dawah (proselytizing for Islam).

The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it’s misusing a federal grant to advance “ideological priorities” and unfairly promote “the positive aspects of Islam,” but not of Christianity or Judaism.

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Telling notes from all over, about Israeli doctors, and their Arab (and Muslim) patients.

Israel has to think clearly in its search for countries both willing to take in these Palestinians

Israel is hoping to make it easier for some of the most discontented — the 70% of the Gazan young who are unemployed and who unsurprisingly are among the most violent participants in the Great March of Return – find new lives elsewhere. The thinking is that Gaza is akin to a pressure cooker that can be made to let off human steam. It is the young and unem

History bears out the Chinese claim that the Uighur people “endured slavery’” at the hands of “the Turks.”