Demographic Bogeyman

There’s a bogeyman out there: the impending inundation of  Arabs into Israel. “Dateline Jerusalem: A demographic study released Tuesday predicts that in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Arabs will outnumber Jews by the year 2020.”

The Palestinians’ Self-Made Nakba

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Palestine’s Arabs went through an expulsion, just like tens of millions around the world, including Jews. But the Palestinians are the only ones who adopted an ethos of rejectionism, self-victimization, suffering and death. For 70 years now, the Nakba isn’t just a memory. It’s the ethos, the identity, the lifetime achievement.

He Has No Merritt

Jim Fletcher

The glorious opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is one of those eye-popping moments that come along only rarely.

Pity the Poor Gazans

The mass media is doing its best to tell everyone that Gaza is just about the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world, due – of course – to Israel making it an “open air prison.”

Gazans are Victims of an Ideology of Hatred

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Palestinian rioters, who are sending flaming kites across the border and vandalizing goods and fuel pipelines aimed at easing the Gazans’ life, couldn’t care less about the distress in the strip. On the contrary, they want to increase it, because that’s Hamas’ ideology—destruction and ruin.

Independence!

Jim Fletcher

The moment was so dramatic, one wonders exactly what it was like if he was not yet born to witness it.