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Arabs constructing fake graves on eastern side of Temple Mount
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You will all recall that last month, some 300 fake graves were discovered in the Mamilla area and destroyed. Now, the 'Palestinians' are trying to do the same thing, this time outside the eastern wall of the Temple Mount. Maya Shukri of the El Har HaMoriyah Institute, who documented the faked graves with her camera, told Arutz7 on Wednesday that at the present time, the graves are empty but an
The real refugees
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Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's father was expelled from Algeria with the shirt on his back and not much else. Today, rather than living in a 'refugee camp,' Danny is a cabinet deputy minister living in a normal home. So are hundreds of thousands of other Jews and their descendants who were expelled from Arab countries after the establishment of the State of Israel. If the 'Palestinians'
Why Israel is wasting its time in Washington
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Roger Simon has it right regarding this week's talks in Washington.Now here’s the thought experiment part. I’m assuming most of the readers here — in this case I’d wager 99% of you — have been in negotiations themselves. When you got 98% or even 88% of what you wanted, did you walk away and start a war… okay, just walk away?
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Abu Mazen's apologists
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Robert Malley and Hussein Agha are probably the biggest 'Palestinian' apologists in the US foreign policy establishment. After Yasser Arafat walked out of Camp David and started a war ten years ago, they wrote a piece in the New York Review of Books in which they blamed Ehud Barak for not conceding enough!In an op-ed in Thursday's Washington Post, they lament the weakness of Abu Mazen's position
Israel Matzav reader quoted by Ma'an
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Shomron resident David HaIvri, who reads this blog (or at least its Twitter Feed) regularly, was interviewed by the 'Palestinian' news agency Ma'an regarding the 'direct talks' in Washington. Ha’Ivri concentrated in his remarks on the lack of helpfulness inherent in the U.S. pressure on both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This pressure is “actually counterproductive,” he writes.
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Deja vu all over again?
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Deja vu all over again? Let's hope not. Be strong Bibi. Don't give in.
Why Israelis aren't rushing to give 'land for peace'
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I suspect that many of you abroad have no idea how true this is. The truth? In the week that three Presidents, a King and their own Prime Minister gather at the White House to begin a fresh round of talks on peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the truth is, Israelis are no longer preoccupied with the matter. They're otherwise engaged; they're making money; they're enjoying the rays of late
Moreno's miracle
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The name Emanuel Moreno is one of the most searched names on this blog. I constantly see incoming hits in the site meter looking for details about one of the biggest heroes of the Second Lebanon War. You can find Emanuel Moreno's story here. Hashem Yinkom Damo - May God avenge his blood.The two people who were shot at while driving their car at the Rimonim junction on Wednesday night were
Overnight music video
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Friday is the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of the Chafetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaCohen Kagan of blessed memory.Let's go to the videotape.
Obama abandons the Negroponte doctrine
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Sorry for the down time - this evening has been crazy.In the 'bad old days' of George W. Bush, US veto policy at the United Nations was dictated by something called the Negroponte doctrine, which was named after then-US ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte. The Negroponte Doctrine, which was explicitly posted on the website of the U.S. mission to the United Nations in 2003, says