Two-Thirds of Israelis Support Peace with Palestinians that Ensures Security
The Times of Israel reports a broad majority of the Israeli public would vote in favour of a peace agreement with the Palestinians, if the government brought a plan that offered security guarantees to a referendum, polls published Sunday by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace found. Roughly two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) expressed support for a two-state solution based […]
What You Won’t Read in the Mainstream Media: Rock Attacks Terrorize West Bank Drivers
Ynet News reports a recent surge of violence in the West Bank, with drivers and passengers reporting being attacked by rocks and firebombs on a daily basis. Most notable is a stretch of Highway 60 that crosses the disputed territory. Only last week three Israelis were injured while traveling down the road, including an IDF officer […]
Irony of the Day
Most Israeli children in cities like Sderot in the South of Israel have suffered for years from post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD), to the indifference of the media. But one didn’t have to wait long for a Radio-Canada program on PTSD in Gazan children as a result of the Israel-Gaza conflict, which aired yesterday. La […]
Palestinian Human Rights Abuses Against Their Own
The Jerusalem Institute of Justice has concluded an 18 month study of the status of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza. This study has revealed that despite 20 billion dollars of western aid to the Palestinian Authority in the last 14 years, poverty and human rights violations are rampant in the territories. There […]
Action Alert: Anti-Semitic Cartoons Published in Toronto Arabic Newspaper
A Toronto-area Arabic newspaper called Meshwar recently on November 30 published an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting Israelis eating Palestinian children and drinking their blood. Other cartoons caricatured the stereotypical trope of hook-nosed, menacing Jews. According to Shalom Toronto’s Jonathan Halevi (see full article below), Meshwar expressed support for outlawed Palestinian terrorist organizations like Hamas and called […]
A Canadian Recounts His Visit to Israel and Volunteering in the Israel Defense Force
In BCLocalNews.com today, Brendan Wolfe from Prince Rupert gives us a glimpse of Israel. Wolfe gives his impressions of volunteering for the IDF to visiting sites such as Ein Gedi and the Dead Sea to what it felt like to be under the watch of Hezbollah terrorists and finding safety from Gazan rockets in Tel […]