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2024-05-09

Ireland, Spain, and several other European Union member states are reportedly deliberating the recognition of a Palestinian state by May 21, as disclosed by Ireland's national broadcaster, RTE News. According to RTE News, diplomatic discussions have intensified between Dublin and Madrid, as well as between Slovenia and Malta, with the aim of collectively acknowledging Palestinian statehood. This potential decision aims to align these countries with the 141 other nations that have already formally recognized Palestine, signaling a concerted effort to bolster global recognition of Palestinian sovereignty. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-05-08

More than 100 staff members of European Union institutions gathered in Brussels on Wednesday in a protest against Israel's war in . Protesters laid three rolled-up white sheets with red stains on them on the square outside the European Commission's head office in the Belgian capital. On the three 'bodies' the words International Law, EU Treaties and Genocide Convention were written, in a protest of the way Israel has responded to the attacks by Hamas on . "We're coming together in a peaceful assembly, to stand up for those rights, principles and values that the European institutions are build on," EU Commission staff member Manus Carlisle told Reuters. "The reasons why we work here and love to work here. Those values of human rights, human dignity and freedom especially." European Commission President Urusla von der Leyen delivers state of the European Union address to the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France, September 14, 2022. (credit: REUTERS/YVES HERMAN) Fellow protester Simona Baloghova, who works for the European Committee of the Regions, added the protest should not be seen as a political statement. "The idea of this protest is that we are neutral," she said. "We are not political, we just stand by the EU values." Israel's offensive has killed more than 34,800 Palestinians in seven months of , most of them civilians, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. The war began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people and abducting 252 others, of whom 132 remain hostage in Gaza and 36 have been declared dead, according to the latest Israeli figures. The European Commission had no comment on the protest. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-05-07

President was sworn in for a new six-year term on Tuesday at a Kremlin ceremony that was boycotted by the United States and a number of other Western countries due to Russia's war in Ukraine. Putin, in power as president or prime minister since 1999, begins his new mandate more than two years after he sent tens of thousands of troops into , where Russian forces have regained the initiative after a series of reversals and are seeking to advance further in the east. At 71, Putin dominates the domestic political landscape. On the international stage, he is locked in a confrontation with Western countries he accuses of using Ukraine as a vehicle to try to defeat and dismember Russia. "For Russia, this is the continuation of our path, this is stability – you can ask any citizen on the street," Sergei Chemezov, a close Putin ally, told Reuters before the ceremony. "President Putin was re-elected and will continue the path, although the West probably doesn’t like it. But they will understand that Putin is stability for Russia rather than some sort of new person who came with new policies – either cooperation or confrontation even," he said. Russian President Vladimir Putin walks before his inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia May 7, 2024. (credit: Sputnik/Artyom Geodakyan/Pool via REUTERS) Putin in March won a landslide victory in a tightly controlled election from which two anti-war candidates were barred on technical grounds. His best known opponent, , died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony a month earlier, and other leading critics are in jail or have been forced to flee abroad. The United States and other Western countries stayed away from Tuesday's inauguration ceremony. "No, we will not have a representative at his inauguration," Matthew Miller, a spokesperson, said on Monday. "We certainly did not consider that election free and fair but he is the president of Russia and he is going to continue in that capacity." Britain, Canada and most European Union nations also decided to boycott the swearing-in, but France said it would send its ambassador. Ukraine said the event sought to create "the illusion of legality for the nearly lifelong stay in power of a person who has turned the Russian Federation into an aggressor state and the ruling regime into a dictatorship." Putin said as he took the oath for a new six-year term that Russia did not rule out dialogue with the West, but it needed to be on equal terms. In a short speech, Putin also said that Russia was open to developing relations with other countries he described as "the world's majority". Russia's state system must be resistant to any threats and challenges, he said. Russia's government was dissolved on the same day, in accordance with the constitution, after Putin was inaugurated. The dissolution was announced in an order signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The formation of a new government will start with Putin putting forward the name of the next prime minister for approval by the State Duma, the lower house of parliament. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-05-06

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has called for coordinated action within the European Union to impose trade sanctions on Israel, particularly targeting products originating from Israeli settlements.  In an interview with Het Laatste Nieuws, De Croo emphasized the urgency of the situation, stating, "Can we now simply continue with Israel as a trading partner? I don’t think so."  He highlighted the significant loss of life, including numerous , during the war in Gaza, asserting that Europeans cannot afford to remain passive bystanders. De Croo also expressed concerns about the potential for regional escalation. Regarding ongoing discussions with other European leaders, De Croo revealed, "We have been working with other European countries for weeks." He called upon EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to investigate whether Israel violated its association agreement with the EU. However, analysts caution that while Belgium's presidency of the EU Council provides a platform for such discussions, the prospect of EU-wide sanctions remains uncertain. Some view De Croo's statements as primarily aimed at domestic audiences, particularly in the lead-up to upcoming elections. Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter echoed De Croo's sentiments, stating, "We are working on further sanctions." Belgium's stance on Israel has become increasingly critical, with previous calls for action against violent settlers and condemnations of Israeli actions in Gaza. The recent escalation in tensions was further fueled by an Israeli strike in Rafah, resulting in the death of a local aid worker and his son, both involved in Belgium's development aid efforts in Gaza. This incident has intensified Belgium's scrutiny of Israeli actions. Belgium's approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict has drawn attention in recent years, with the government considering measures such as recognizing a Palestinian state and implementing countermeasures against Israeli annexation plans in the West Bank. Despite Belgium's vocal criticism of Israel, the country remains one of Israel's significant trading partners within the EU.  ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-05-06

Turkey launched air strikes in northern Iraq on Monday, targeting areas believed to be harboring members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).  The Turkish defense ministry reported that the strikes resulted in the deaths of 16 PKK militants. This post can't be displayed because social networks cookies have been deactivated. You can activate them by clicking manage preferences. The air strikes targeted regions including Hakurk, Metina, and Gara in northern Iraq, according to the Turkish defense ministry. The ministry asserted that the PKK militants had been "neutralized" in these operations. The PKK, which has been engaged in an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984, is labeled as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union. This post can't be displayed because social networks cookies have been deactivated. You can activate them by clicking manage preferences. These strikes come following discussions held last month between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and officials in Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region. The talks focused on addressing the persistent presence of PKK fighters in northern Iraq. The has long been committed to combating the PKK insurgency, which it views as a threat to its national security.  ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-05-01

It’s a challenge to keep Israel’s cultural life thriving , and one of the most important literary events of the year, the Jerusalem International Writers Festival, just announced that, in spite of everything that is going on, it will be held May 27-30 at Mishkenot Sha’ananim. The organizers also announced that it will feature a high-profile guest: acclaimed American novelist John Irving, author of The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, and many other books. Irving said in a statement released by the festival, “I first came to Israel in April 1981. I was pro-Israel then; I’m no less pro-Israeli now.” Simon Schama, the British historian and the author of such books as The Story of the Jews, will be another of the festival’s distinguished guests, and he said, “There are moments when that old Hillel injunction, ‘If not now, when?’ becomes inescapable. This is one of them. At a time when a depressing number of writers, mired in historical ignorance and misunderstanding, are turning their backs on Israel and seeking to divide , it seems crucial to deny them that morally misplaced satisfaction with one’s personal presence. “So while I have been to Israel many times, coming to the Jerusalem International Writers Festival will be the most meaningful visit of all. I look forward to standing resolutely with Israel’s literary and cultural community.” The festival, which is an event in which Israeli and international authors read from their works and engage in literary discussions and exchanges of ideas, will welcome Delphine Horvilleur, a rabbi and editor-in-chief of Tenou’a, a quarterly journal published by the Tenou’a association with the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, and German-Jewish novelist Mirna Fink. The festival organizers have struggled to find a way to address the massacre and the war, and the festival will open with a literary . The event will feature a discussion with and readings by several Israeli writers, including Dror Mishani, Noa Yadlin, and Eshkol Nevo. A number of relatives of artists killed in the war will discuss their works. This year marks the beginning of a special project with the European Union to promote and distribute contemporary European literature in Israel. Varujan Vosganian, a Romanian writer; Christos Chomenidis, from Greece; and Anne Berest, from France, will participate. Three Israeli writers currently based abroad will also attend the festival: Ron Leshem, Maya Arad, and Ruby Namdar. The director and artistic director of the festival, Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler, said, “In the days after the October 7 massacre, we debated long and hard whether to hold the Jerusalem International Writers Festival. The shock and grief paralyzed us. Our lives will be shaken. We didn’t know how it would be possible to even think about a festival... in the face of bereavement and loss. “We built the program with the intention of minimizing the festive aspect of the festival. Instead, we wanted to hold a literary event that would unite the community and provide us all with a little comfort: an event that combined our hope in literature, humanism, and solidarity and perhaps inspired. “We thought that precisely such an event, which supposedly stands in such sharp contradiction to the reality of our lives, is now needed by all of us like air to breathe.” The full program is available at https://fest.mishkenot.org.il/en/home/a/main/ ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-05-01

It’s a challenge to keep Israel’s cultural life thriving during the war, and one of the most important literary events of the year, the , just announced that it will be held from May 27-30 at Mishkenot Sha’ananim, and that its diverse program will feature a well-known guest: the acclaimed American novelist, John Irving, the author of The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire and many other books. Irving said in a statement released by the festival, “I first came to Israel in April 1981. I was pro-Israel then; I’m no less pro-Israeli now. , the British historian and the author of such books as The Story of the Jews, will be another of the festival’s distinguished guests, and he said, “There are moments when that old Hillel injunction, ‘If not now, when?’ becomes inescapable. This is one of them. At a time when a depressing number of writers, mired in historical ignorance and misunderstanding, are turning their backs on Israel and seeking to divide Diaspora Jews from Israel it seems crucial to deny them that morally misplaced satisfaction with one’s personal presence. So while I have been to Israel many times, coming to the Jerusalem International Writers Festival will be for me, the most meaningful visit of all and I look forward to standing resolutely with Israel’s literary and cultural community.” The festival, which is an event in which Israeli and international authors read from their works and engage in and exchanges of ideas, will welcome Delphine Horvilleur, a rabbi and editor-in-chief of Tenou’a, a quarterly journal published by the Tenou’a association with the Liberal Jewish Movement of France, and German-Jewish novelist, Mirna Fink.   The organizers of the festival have struggled to find a way to address the massacre and the war, and the festival will open with a literary remembrance of October 7. The event will feature a discussion with and readings by several Israeli writers, among them Dror Mishani, Noa Yadlin and Eshkol Nevo. A number of relatives of artists killed in the war will discuss their works. Simon Schama (credit: elinor williams) This year marks the beginning of a special project with the European Union for the promotion and distribution of contemporary European literature in Israel, and Varujan Vosganian, a Romanian writer; Christos Chomenidis, from Greece; and Anne Berest, from France will take part. Three Israeli writers currently based abroad will also attend the festival: Ron Leshem, Maya Arad, and Ruby Namdar. The artistic director of the festival, Julia Fermentto Tzaisler, said, “In the days after the October 7 massacre, we debated long and hard whether to hold the Jerusalem International Writers’ Festival. The shock and grief paralyzed us. Our lives will be shaken. We didn’t know how it would be possible to even think about a festival . . . in the face of bereavement and loss. We built the program with the intention of minimizing the festive aspect of the festival. Instead, we wanted to hold a literary event that would unite the community and provide us all with a little comfort: an event that combined the hope we have in literature, humanism and solidarity, and perhaps provide inspiration. We thought that precisely such an event, which supposedly stands in such sharp contradiction to the reality of our lives, is now needed by all of us like air to breathe.” The full program of the festival is available at https://fest.mishkenot.org.il/en/home/a/main/ ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-29

European Union's (EU) Josep Borrell stated in Saudi Arabia's Riyadh that several European countries are anticipated to recognize the Palestinian state by the end of May. Saudi Arabia on Monday is hosting Arab, EU and U.S. diplomats for talks on Gaza war. The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Hamas would accept an offer to halt Israel’s offensive in Gaza in return for the release of hostages. To catch up on the full events from Sunday, Read more in-depth updates on the ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-25

In an unprecedented vote, the European Parliament passed a resolution against the Islamic Republic of Iran on Thursday. The resolution condemned Iran for its attack on Israel and reinforced the European commitment to the security of the State of Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz praised the European Parliament for its vote in favor of a resolution. It follows last Monday's decision by the European Union to sanction Iran in order to curtail missile and drone production. "Another Israeli political success and another blow to Iran," Katz said. "We are tightening the chokehold around the neck of the Iranian octopus. The world understands that Iran needs to be stopped now before it is too late." The resolution passed by a large majority of 357 for and 20 against. Israel Katz (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) This decision clearly demonstrates the European position towards Iran and, by proxy, shows its support for Israel. Foreign Minister Israel Katz elaborated on the vote, saying, "The free world understands that Iran is the biggest danger to regional and global order and peace and the biggest exporter of terrorism in the world. The murderous regime in Tehran violates the nuclear agreement, develops offensive missiles, and exports the Shiite revolution to the entire Middle East and Europe through the Revolutionary Guards and terrorist organizations. "The decision of the European Parliament is a milestone. We will work to impose crippling sanctions on Iran and curb its aggression. I congratulate the European Parliament for the important and unprecedented declaration today and call on all European leaders to act accordingly. Iran needs to be stopped now - before it's too late." ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-22

EU foreign ministers reached an agreement on Monday to expand existing sanctions on to include missiles and their potential transfer to proxies such as Russia, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters in Luxembourg. European Union sanctions announced following Iran's attack against Israel are "regrettable" because the country was acting in self-defense, Iran's Foreign Minister posted on X on Tuesday. "It is regrettable to see the EU deciding quickly to apply more unlawful restrictions against Iran just because Iran exercised its right to self-defence in the face of Israel’s reckless aggression," Amirabdollahian said on X, before calling on the EU to apply instead. Israeli FM Israel Katz later took to the social media platform X to express his support for the EU sanctions. Israel Katz, Foreign Minister to the United Nations points at family members of hostages in the audience during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, at U.N. headquarters in New York, US March 11, 2024. (credit: REUTERS/DAVID 'DEE' DELGADO) In a post written in Persian, Katz wrote, "The important decision of the European Union today to sanction the weapons programs of the Iranian regime sends a clear message to the authorities of the [regime]." تصمیم مهم اتحادیه اروپا امروز برای تحریم برنامه‌های تسلیحاتی رژیم ایران با پیامی روشن به مقامات رژیم ایران .شکست سیاسی اینگونه است و این تازه آغاز کار است. The post tagged Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei. Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles on Israel in what it said was retaliation against a suspected Israeli bombing of its embassy compound in Damascus. More work will need to follow in Brussels to approve a legal framework before the expansion of the sanctions can take effect. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-22

مع انتشار تقنية الذكاء الصناعي واستخدامها في إنتاج عديد من الفيديوهات والصور، أصبح عدد كبير من رواد مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي في تخوف بسبب وجود أخبار زائفة كثيرة تم إنتاجها باستخدم تلك التقنية، ما يزيد من مخاوفهم في عدم دقة بعض المحتويات الموجودة، لذا يلجأ البعض إلى البحث عن كيفية اكتشاف الأخبار الزائفة والحد من انتشارها. وبحسب ««European Union»، فإن اكتشاف  لا يقتصر على نعرفة الادعاءات غير الصحيحة فقط، لكن أيضًا تحليل كميات هائلة من المحتوى الموجود على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي، مثل الصور والفيديوهات والريلز، ويقول مايكل برونشتاين، الأستاذ في جامعة لوغانو في سويسرا وإمبريال كوليدج بالمملكة المتحدة، إنّ هناك مشروعًا يسمى GoodNews جرى تزويده بتقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي لكشف الأخبار المزيفة، لكن لا يمكن استخدامه عبر واتساب، لأنّ التشفير لا يمنح التطبيق الوصول إلى المحتوى المزيف، وفي كثير من الحالات قد تكون الأخبار غير الصحيحة عبارة عن صورة، وهو ما يصعب تحليله باستخدام تقنيات معالجة بالذكاء الاصطناعي. وبحسب تصريحات المهندس أحمد طارق، خبير تكنولوجيا المعلومات لـ«الوطن»، تكشف الشركات الكبرى مثل ميتا وألفابت وتقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي مثل ChatGPT، أي محتوى مزيف بشكل تلقائي:«أي أخبار أو محتوى مزيف منشور على منصات التواصل الاجتماعي، بيتكتب جنبه إنّ المحتوى مزيف أو مصنوع بالذكاء الاصطناعي، وفي تطبيقات لكشف المحتويات اللي زي دي مثل  AI or not، وموقع human ai». يمكن أيضًا الاستعانة بتطبيق FakerFact لكشف ا، وفيه تحدد الخوارزميات ما إذا كان الهدف من المقال المنشور هو توفير الحقائق أم إثارة العواطف؛ ويتيح الفرصة لأخذ آراء وتعليقات المستخدمين حول المقال صحيح أم مزيف. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-22

The UN agency that supports Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, known by the acronym UNRWA, is facing an as the US debates the agency’s post-war utility.  On Wednesday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini told the UN Security Council that a “deliberate and concerted campaign” was being carried out to bring UNRWA down at a time when its services are most critical. “Today, an insidious campaign to end UNRWA’s operations is underway, with serious implications for international peace and security,”l. “We must recognize and reflect in our words and actions that Palestinians and Israelis share a long and profound experience of grief and loss. That they are equally deserving of a peaceful and secure future.” UNRWA’s budget comes almost entirely from voluntary donations made by UN member countries. Before pausing funding in March in response to allegations of UNRWA employee participation in the Oct. 7 attacks, the US was UNRWA’s largest funder, sending $350 million annually.  Germany and the European Union are the second and third largest UNRWA funders, contributing roughly $200 million and $114 million a year, respectively, to the organization’s mission. US politicians, led by House Republicans, in funding UNRWA for years. In 2018, President Donald Trump cut off American support for UNRWA. President Joe Biden renewed the aid after he took office. As part of budget negotiations, US lawmakers agreed last month to pause UNRWA funding until 2025.Palestinian school children chant slogans during a demonstration August 28 1997 in the Gaza Strip protesting spending cuts by UNWRA. (credit: REUTERS) US Ambassador Robert Wood lauded UNRWA during the April 17 Security Council meeting, calling its humanitarian role in the region “indispensable.” “We urge UNRWA’s continued humanitarian access in Gaza and the lifting of onerous restrictions on its work,” Wood said. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan struck a different tone. Erdan told the UN Security Council that UNRWA is “the UN’s single biggest obstacle to a solution” and that the organization is “creating a sea of Palestinian refugees, millions of them, indoctrinated to believe that Israel belongs to them. … The end goal is to use these so-called refugees and their libelous right of return—a right that doesn’t exist—to flood Israel and destroy the Jewish state.” Nearly 6 million Palestinians are eligible for UNRWA services. Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA senior communications manager, told The Media Line via email that UNRWA’s work for Palestinian refugees “is governed by a mandate set down by the UN General Assembly in 1949 and repeatedly renewed since then.” US politicians defunded UNRWA in part as a reaction to an Israeli government report alleging that hundreds of UNRWA employees moonlighted as Hamas militants and that several of them crossed into Israel on Oct. 7 to take part in the massacre, rapes, and abductions of civilians. According to Israel, 16 UNRWA workers directly participated in the Oct. 7 attacks, taking on roles ranging from handing out ammunition to kidnapping civilians.  The US and Israel are not the only countries questioning UNRWA’s educational operations in Gaza. On April 11, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning “the problematic and hateful contents encouraging violence, spreading antisemitism, and inciting hatred in Palestinian school textbooks drafted by Union-funded civil servants as well as in supplementary educational materials developed by UNRWA staff and taught in its schools.” The resolution further noted that “education to hatred has direct and dramatic consequences on the security of Israelis as well as on the perspectives of a better future for young Palestinians.” The Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), an Israeli non-profit organization, reported in March 2023 that previous attempts to reign in antisemitism and incitement in UNRWA school curriculums had been unsuccessful. The report cited examples from various UNRWA schools in Gaza, including a middle school where sample sentences for a grammar exercise included “I will commit jihad to liberate the homeland” and “I will not give up a centimeter of my land.” Additionally, United Nations Watch has, claiming that its probe into neutrality and allegations of staff supporting terrorism was intentionally biased. The report alleges that UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini compromised the investigation from its inception, dismissing the claims as mere "smear campaigns." Furthermore, the review led by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna is criticized for being set up to reassure donors rather than genuinely address the issues, with the investigative team being accused of having a pro-UNRWA bias and conflicts of interest. US decision-makers and thought leaders are now looking for a way to fill UNRWA’s void. The US Israel Education Association (USIEA) recently released a proposal titled “Gaza after UNRWA: Reforming Education for Peaceful Coexistence” that suggests eliminating UNRWA’s role in educating Gazans and completely rebuilding the educational system after the war. “Through this white paper, we want to show how replacing the current Palestinian education system through innovative new approaches can lay the groundwork for peaceful coexistence,” Heather Johnston, founder and CEO of USIEA, told The Media Line. USIEA proposes scrapping UNRWA for a new entity it calls the Alternate Gazan Education System Fund. The program would be administered by current funders of UNRWA as well as interested countries that are signed on to the Abraham Accords. Under USIEA’s plan, Saudi Arabia would also join after normalizing its relationship with Israel. The program includes revamping teacher education, developing a new curriculum for Gazan schools, and bringing in foreign teachers to conduct classes until local teachers can be vetted and properly educated. Gazan teachers would be required to go through a course called “Teaching to Coexist” before they could teach in Gazan schools. UNRWA boys' prep school, Rafah, Gaza (credit: ISM Palestine/Flickr) “Reevaluating what and how we teach the next generation can make enormous strides toward peace in the Middle East. That would be the best gift we could give the next generation,” EJ Kimball, director of policy and strategic operations at USIEA, told The Media Line. While the proposal has gained some traction amongst US lawmakers, it has its opponents, too. Dr. Brian K. Barber, a senior nonresident scholar at the Washington, DC-based Middle East Policy Council, described USIEA’s white paper as “a transparent attempt to accomplish Israel’s historic effort to dispense with UNRWA.” “As such, it fails to persuade both on practical and moral grounds,” he told The Media Line.  Barber said that placing “teaching to coexist” as a central tenet in the Gazan education system was hard to imagine. “Can one seriously imagine trying to teach a population to coexist with a military power that has historically and recently destroyed their homes and schools, killed their family members, and brought them to starve? Just what would that coexistence look like?” he said. USIEA’s white paper describes UNRWA as “a compromised agency that became entangled with the Hamas apparatus in Gaza.” The proposal also describes UNRWA textbooks as antisemitic and anti-Israel, claiming that children educated in UNRWA schools are “indoctrinated to hate their Jewish neighbors.” Barber called the white paper misleading on several points.  Regarding the claim that Gazan youth have been indoctrinated to hate Jews and Israelis, Barber cited research he has carried out with youth at UNRWA schools in Gaza since 1994.  “Our data has shown overwhelmingly that Gazan youth have been peace-oriented, wishing only to enjoy basic human rights and future opportunity for education, family formation, and employment,” he said.  UNRWA also disagrees with USIEA’s assertions of misconduct. “On schoolbooks, we have seen repeated claims to this effect over the years and we reject them,” Fowler said. The March 2023 IMPACT-se report found 25 examples of UNRWA-created content taught in UNRWA schools during the 2022-2023 school year that endorse violence, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israel, reject Israel’s right to exist, or promote antisemitism.  UNRWA’s spokesperson also rejected a claim that senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was once a teacher in an UNRWA school. That claim was reported last month by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a non-profit news organization that monitors and reports on Arabic language media outlets. MEMRI posted a translation of an interview with Ahmad Oueidat, former director of UNRWA’s professional development and curriculum unit, who said that both Haniyeh and Dr. Talal Naji, the secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine—General Command, were both former UNRWA educators. For parties both supportive of and opposed to UNRWA’s role in the Gazan education system, it’s clear that something in Gaza has got to change. “The path forward for Gazan education once the bombings have stopped would be to rebuild and repair the damaged and destroyed schools and create fully safe passage of students and teachers to resume instruction,” Barber said. “The US and other international actors should devote all of their efforts, available resources, and influence to induce Israel to loosen its strangling and humiliating control of Palestinians, within and outside of Gaza.” ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-19

The European Union announced new sanctions on Friday against four people and two entities that it said were "responsible for serious human rights abuses against Palestinians." The abuses include "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" and "the violation of [the] right to property and to private and family life of Palestinians in the West Bank,"  the Council of the EU said in a . The listed entities are Lehava, the known for campaigns against Jewish-Arab relationships, and what a statement referred to as "Hilltop Youth," a term used to refer to a loosely-organized cluster of extremist, often violent settlement activity that is illegal under Israeli law. In 2022, National Unity party leader Benny Gantz, now a minister-without-portfolio in the war cabinet, called for Lehava to be designated a terrorist organization. The group is led by Bentzi Gopstein, a far-right activist who was of incitement to racism. European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, January 18, 2018. (credit: REUTERS/FRANCOIS LENOIR/FILE PHOTO) Two leading figures among the 'hilltop youth', Meir Ettinger and Elisha Yered, are also listed. "Both were involved in deadly attacks against Palestinians in 2015 and 2023," the statement added. Also sanctioned are Neria Ben Pazi, "who has been accused of repeatedly attacking Palestinians in Wadi Seeq and in Deir Jarir since 2021," and Yinon Levi, "who has taken part in multiple violent acts against neighbouring villages from his residence in the Mitarim farm illegal outpost," the statement went on.   ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-16

The United States and the European Union urged Israel to spark a regional war when it responded to Iran’s missile and drone attack against the Jewish state over the weekend.  US President Joe Biden “doesn’t want to see a war with Iran. He doesn't want to see the conflict widen or deepen, National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told reporters in a gaggle aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. European Union foreign policy chief called on Israel to constrain its response and refrain from taking escalatory steps. “We are standing by Israel and supporting Israel against the Iranian attacks,” Borrell said on Tuesday. He cautioned, however, that “every time another step is taken on that ladder, the intensity of the military response increases, and we will end up with a fully blown war which nobody wants.” Borrell spoke with reporters in Brussels as he reported on the results of an informal virtual meeting he held with the bloc’s 27 foreign ministers on Tuesday. European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell speaks on the tensions between the neighbouring Western Balkan nations in Brussels, Belgium, August 18, 2022. (credit: REUTERS/Johanna Geron) “We have to mobilize all of our diplomatic means to avoid any move”  that would lead “us into a regional war. That is what we're trying to avoid,” he stated.  The US and the EU spoke out as the IDF has made a decision on how to respond but has not yet set the timing for when to take action. A war cabinet meeting that was scheduled for Tuesday, was delayed until Wednesday. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock flew to Israel on Tuesday. British Foreign Minister David Cameron was expected to arrive on Wednesday to discuss the need for a moderate Iranian response with Israeli officials. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issued a similar message when he spoke by phone Tuesday with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu "(Sunak) stressed that significant escalation was in no one's interest and would only deepen insecurity in the Middle East. This was a moment for calm heads to prevail," Sunak's office said in a readout of the call. Israel weathered the attack due to the combined efforts of a newly forged regional military coalition that involved the IDF as well as the British, French, Jordanian, and American armies. The leaders of those countries feel that they have a particular stake in a decision that Israel takes. US Secretary of State held an intense series of diplomatic conversations to avoid escalation, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters in Washington. Blinken spoke with the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar on Tuesday and continued talks with members of the war cabinet, Miller said. Blinken is delivering the same message in every conversation that the US does not want to see further escalation of the conflict.  Israel has not informed the State Department of any plans to respond to Iran, Miller said.  "We have been clear that we are committed to Israel's defense, but we do want to see - as you've heard multiple members of the administration say - an escalation of this conflict," Miller stressed The State Department is working to ensure a "coordinated diplomatic response" to the escalatory actions taken by Iran, Miller said, as evidenced by Blinken and Biden's conversations with G7 counterparts.  The G7 is expected to meet on Wednesday with US President Joe Biden participating. In Brussels Borrel said, the EU’s foreign ministers and defense ministers will convene this coming Monday and will also meet with the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The EU is looking to expand its restrictive measures against Iran as it relates to drones and missiles. It also plans to issue sanctions against those who help supply Iranian arms to proxy groups in the Middle East. Borrell stressed the danger facing the region, as he explains that the weekend attack “represents a major escalation of an already very tense situation in the region.”  He echoed the words of UN Secretary-General when he stated that the region “was on the edge of an abyss.” It was as if the region was engaged in a chess game that would end in a “full war.” “If there is a regional escalation and the whole region is in war, then the war in Gaza will not stop, and the sufferings of the people in Gaza will increase,” he stated.  EU foreign ministers took a strong stand, asking “all actors in the region to move away from the abyss in order not to fall into it,” Borrell stated, as he stressed that the 27-member bloc supported Israel in its battle against Iran. Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan, however, blamed Netanyahu for the escalation with Iran, as he referred to the IDF strike on a building in the Iranian embassy compound that killed seven officers. "Israel is trying to provoke a regional conflict, and its attack on Iran's embassy in Damascus was the last drop," he told a press conference in Ankara after a cabinet meeting. He added that new regional conflicts were possible as long as the "cruelty and genocide" in Gaza continued and called on all parties to act with common sense. He also slammed the West for condemning Iran's attack but not Israel's strike on Iran's embassy. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday urged all sides in the Middle East to refrain from action that would trigger a new confrontation which he warned would be fraught with catastrophic consequences for the region, the Kremlin said. Putin, who has forged much closer ties with the Islamic Republic since sending troops into Ukraine in 2022, spoke to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi by phone about what the Kremlin called "retaliatory measures taken by Iran." Putin, in his first publicly aired comments on Iran's attack, said the root cause of the current instability in the Middle East was the unresolved conflict between Palestinians and Israel. "Vladimir Putin expressed hope that all sides would show reasonable restraint and prevent a new round of confrontation fraught with catastrophic consequences for the entire region," the Kremlin said. "Ebrahim Raisi noted that Iran's actions were forced and limited in nature," the Kremlin said. "At the same time, he stressed Tehran's disinterest in further escalation of tensions." Tehran gave a slightly different readout of the call, with state media quoting Raisi as declaring that Iran would respond more severely, extensively, and painfully than ever to any action against Iran's interests. Iranian state media quoted Putin as characterizing Tehran's response to Israel as the best way to punish the aggressor and a manifestation of the wisdom of Iran's leaders. "Both sides stated that the root cause of the current events in the Middle East is the unresolved Palestinian-Israeli conflict," the Kremlin said of the call with Raisi. Reuters contributed to this report. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-16

In the wake of Iran's recent attack on Israel, the European Union (EU) is gearing up to expand sanctions against Tehran. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced on Tuesday that several member states have proposed an extension of restrictive measures targeting Iran, with the aim of curbing the supply of missiles and drones to Russia and proxies in the Middle East. Borrell revealed that during an emergency video conference of EU foreign ministers, discussions revolved around the repercussions of Iran's assault on Israel. "Some member states proposed... adopting an expansion of restrictive measures against Iran," Borrell stated, indicating a unified stance among certain EU nations. The proposed sanctions would build upon existing measures aimed at impeding the supply of Iranian drones to Russia. Borrell outlined plans to broaden the sanctions regime to include the provision of missiles and extend coverage to deliveries made to proxies in the Middle East. Notably, Germany, France, and other EU members have publicly expressed support for the proposal, highlighting a collective determination to address Iran's destabilizing actions in the region. Borrell affirmed his backing for the proposed sanctions, emphasizing the need for diplomatic action in response to Iran's aggression. He announced that the EU's diplomatic service would begin work on the expansion of sanctions, with discussions expected to continue at an upcoming ministerial meeting in Luxembourg. Regarding calls to include Iran's (IRGC) in Europe's sanctions list, Borrell clarified that concrete evidence of the IRGC's involvement in acts of terrorism within Europe is required for such action. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-16

In a significant move marking the international community’s first major effort to address the dire humanitarian crisis in, French President Emmanuel Macron announced at a conference in Paris on Monday that a new package totaling 2 billion euros had been raised.  During the conference in Paris, the European Union committed 350 million euros as a bloc, with France and Germany spearheading the effort by pledging 110 million euros and 244 million euros, respectively. Additionally, the United States pledged $147 million, and Britain committed $110 million.  "Unfortunately, the amount that we mobilized today is still probably less than was mobilized by several powers since the start of to help one or the other side kill each other," Macron remarked during his concluding speech at the conference.  Highlighting the necessity for continued multilateral collaboration, Macron emphasized the need to prevent further interference from foreign actors and ultimately bring an end to the conflict.  A Sudanese family who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, sit beside their belongings while waiting to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, July 26, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/ZOHRA BENSEMRA) Amidst millions teetering on the and impediments imposed by the warring Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel Rapid Support Forces, critical aid struggles to reach certain areas, resulting in widespread displacement. UN experts have accused the United Arab Emirates and Iran of exacerbating the situation by supplying weapons to the belligerent factions.  ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-12

The European Union drug regulator found no evidence that a class of and weight-loss drugs, such as Novo Nordisk's hugely popular Wegovy, are linked to suicidal thoughts, it said on Friday following a nine-month probe. After reviewing the available evidence, the European Medicines Agency (EMA)'s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee, which monitors drugs' side effects said that no updates to the product information is warranted. The finding comes after EMA extended in December its review into the class of weight-loss and diabetes drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, to get more data from drugmakers to further investigate the issue. The analysis started in July after Iceland's health regulator flagged three cases of patients thinking about suicide or self-harm after using Novo's drugs. The review focused on medicines that contain either semaglutide or liraglutide, both GLP-1 targeting compounds. Liraglutide is the active ingredient in Novo's weight-loss treatment Saxenda while semaglutide is the active ingredient in Wegovy and top-selling diabetes treatment .European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, January 18, 2018. (credit: REUTERS/FRANCOIS LENOIR/FILE PHOTO) EMA also analyzed about 170 other case reports on suspected adverse reactions registered with the EU's EudraVigilance database. The 's preliminary review in January had found no link between GP-1 drugs and suicidal thoughts or actions. GLP-1 receptor agonists, originally developed to help control blood sugar in patients with diabetes in Novo's Nordisk's Ozempic and Mounjaro developed by Eli Lilly, also slow digestion and reduce hunger. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-08

A Senate ally of President Joe Biden said the US should continue sending weapons to Israel, rejecting a call by House members to withhold arms transfers pending a full investigation into the Israeli missile strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza. Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, cited a heightened risk of an attack by Iran or its proxies after a strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria that Iran blamed on Israel. “In the face of a possible attack from Iran, I don’t agree that we should in any way constrain or stop the delivery of defensive material that is essential for Israel’s defense,” Coons said on Fox News Sunday. Biden has come under renewed pressure to restrict US support for Israel after the aid workers, including a US-Canadian dual national, were killed last week. Israel’s army responded by dismissing two officers, calling the strike a case of “mistaken identification, errors in decision making, and an attack contrary to standard operating procedures.” Biden delivered a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, urging him to take new steps to protect civilians and provide humanitarian aid to Gaza or face a consequential shift in US support. World Central Kitchen (WCK) barge loaded with food arrives off the Gaza coast, March 15, 2024 (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) More than three dozen House Democrats, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, went further in an open letter on Friday, calling on the administration to withhold weapons transfers from Israel until an investigation “into the is concluded and, if it is found this strike violated US or international law, those responsible are held accountable.” Asked about the letter, Coons said he disagrees. “It’s important that we continue to show strong support for the defense of Israel, that we continue to support the Iron Dome and other ballistic missile defenses that we’ve jointly developed, and that we make it clear we will defend Israel against any Iranian proxy attack or any direct attack by Iran,” Coons said. In the six months since Hamas militants attacked Israel, parts of Gaza have been bombed to rubble. At least 33,000 Palestinians have died, according to the health ministry, which Hamas runs, designated a terrorist organization by the US and European Union. The United Nations estimates that at least 75% of Gaza’s population has been displaced, and more than half a million civilians are on the brink of famine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the World Central Kitchen last week while saying that recent deliveries of US weapons to Israel reflect a pipeline of long-term commitments notified to Congress, often “years ago.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, sought to cast Democrats as wavering in their support for Israel. “It’s time to stop lecturing on how it should best defend itself and begin equipping our friend with the resources necessary to eliminate the threat of Hamas, once and for all,” he said in a statement Sunday. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-05

Israel said it approved the reopening of the and the temporary use of Ashdod port in southern Israel, following US demands to increase humanitarian aid supplies into Gaza. During a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday night, US President Joe Biden demanded "specific, concrete" steps to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying conditions could be placed on US aid if Israel did not respond. The growing pressure on Israel came after the killing of seven aid workers in an Israeli strike on Monday night, which at the continuing problems with aid deliveries into the besieged enclave. A meeting of the security cabinet late on Thursday approved immediate steps to increase humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, a statement said. In addition to reopening the which has been closed since it was destroyed during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the security cabinet also approved increasing Jordanian aid through the Kerem Shalom crossing point, the statement said. Palestinians gather on a beach in the hope of getting aid air-dropped, in the southern Gaza Strip (credit: REUTERS/MOHAMMED SALEM) The move was welcomed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken who said the impact of the move would have to be measured in an improved situation on the ground in Gaza, where aid agencies have warned of an increasing risk of famine. "Really the proof is in the results, and we will see those unfold in the coming days, in the coming weeks," Blinken said, speaking alongside European Union leaders in Belgium. The decision to reopen the Erez crossing, the main crossing point from Israel into northern Gaza before the war, represented a major shift after Israeli officials previously rejected calls for more entry points into Gaza to be opened up. UNRWA, the main UN aid agency in Gaza, also welcomed the reopening of the crossings, but said Israel needs to do more. "We call on the Israeli authorities to reverse their decision that bans UNRWA from reaching northern Gaza with food supplies," it said in a statement. "The clock is ticking fast towards famine and UNRWA must be allowed to do its work, and reach the north on a regular basis with food and nutrition supplies." Israel has long accused the agency of being close to Hamas and has sought to have it disbanded. UNRWA has always rejected the accusation and has said Israel has been putting obstacles into aid coming into Gaza. The agency last month said it had been told by Israel it would no longer approve food convoys to the north, where the humanitarian crisis is most acute. Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said opening the crossing was the minimum that Israel should do. "That said, we are concerned that the Israeli announcement could be nothing but throwing ash in the eyes and that once implementation begins, Israel will begin to stall and invent pretexts to delay or suspend the process," he said. Israel has faced growing international pressure to do more to help civilians in Gaza, where most of the population has been driven from their homes and now depends on aid to survive. It has previously insisted that it was placing no restrictions on emergency supplies getting into the besieged enclave, blaming problems on international agencies inside Gaza that have been handling distribution to people in need. That argument has been severely undermined by the killing of the World Central Kitchen staff, who had coordinated their movements with the Israeli military before their vehicles were hit by an air strike. Israel has also braced for a possible attack from Iran, or one of its proxy militia groups like Hezbollah, following the killing of two of Iranian generals along with five military advisers in an air strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday. ...قراءة المزيد

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2024-04-03

Albert Einstein once revealed the secret of his genius: “Simplify as much as possible – but not more so.” His famous equation E=mc2, linked mass and energy in a manner that changed the world. He discovered it by starting with a complex equation and striking out everything that was not essential.  Simplify! Presto! Mass and energy are forms of the same thing. Biden, Blinken, the European Union, Arab Gulf states, professors, diplomats – all assert that a (“two-state solution”) is the panacea for endless Mideast wars. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is Jewish; his stepfather, Pisar, was the only one of 900 Polish schoolmates who survived the Holocaust. He has visited the Mideast six times since . Blinken has reportedly told the State Department to review policy options, including international recognition of a Palestinian state. PLO Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken before his meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on February 7. (credit: Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/REUTERS)Presto! They are simplifying – much more than is possible. The Mideast, alas, is a lot more complex than the special theory of relativity. I, too, as a center-leftist, embraced the two-state solution idea — until I researched this column and talked to real experts. Is a viable Palestinian state feasible? Does it hold promise for the Mideast? Or peril? Peril. Below, I offer seven reasons – and a possible alternative.Know what you don’t know Let me begin first with a personal note about how to understand complex reality.I spent 35 years in an ivory tower, researching innovation and entrepreneurship. I believed I had become an expert. I wasn’t. I did not know what I did not know.Until I was given early retirement and went out into the world as academic director of Technion Institute of Management in Tel Aviv’s hi-tech Atidim site, working with global hi-tech firms and start-ups. Only then did I even begin to grasp the complexity of the real world. Far too many experts are pushing Mideast solutions without extensive firsthand feet-on-the-ground, ears-to-the-ground expertise. They mean well. But their theories are not grounded in reality. They don’t know what they don’t know. We offered it – They turned it down five timesIn 1937, Britain’s Peel Commission proposed creating two independent states in Palestine – one for Jews, one for Arabs. It gave the Arabs 80% of the land. The Jews voted to accept it. The Arabs rejected it and continued their violent rebellion. First rejection.On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted for Resolution 181 to create two states. The Jews accepted it. The Arabs rejected it by launching a war. Second rejection.In June 1967, after a stunning victory in the Six Day War, half the Israeli government wanted to return the West Bank to Jordan, and Gaza to Egypt; the other half wanted to give them to the Palestinians, hoping they would build their own state. But the Arab League met in Sudan and declared: no peace, no recognition, no negotiations. Third rejection.In 2000, prime minister Ehud Barak met at Camp David with PLO chair Yasser Arafat. Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank, with east Jerusalem as its capital. Arafat said no and launched a bloody wave of suicide bombings, killing over 1,000 Israelis. Fourth rejection.In 2008, prime minister Ehud Olmert expanded Barak’s offer, to include additional land. The new (and current) Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas turned it down. Fifth rejection.Try for a sixth rejection? I don’t think so.Neither Israelis nor Palestinians support itThree separate public opinion polls show that both Israelis and Palestinians reject the two-state solution – and the opposition to it is growing. On July 29, 2023, two months before the October 7 massacre, The Jerusalem Post reported that a reliable poll showed “support for the two-state solution dropped significantly from September 2020 – from 42% to 33% among Palestinians, and 34% among Israelis. Two-thirds of Palestinians and 53% of Israeli Jews are opposed.”Polls by Gallup and Pew Research Center found exactly the same result. And a Peace Index survey from Tel Aviv University quoted by The New York Times also showed only 27% of Israelis support two states – and 24% of Palestinians.If neither Israelis nor Palestinians support a Palestinian state, does anyone believe it can be successfully imposed on them?Palestinians have been imbued with helpless dependencyNeither Gaza nor the West Bank has a viable economy – a precondition for an independent state. Some 90% of Gaza residents depended on UN food, healthcare, and education before the Gaza war. In 2022, some 30,208 truckloads of food, fuel, and cooking gas entered Gaza from the Rafah crossing with Egypt. And West Bank imports total 70% of GDP. Humanitarian aid has been inhumane because it has imbued Palestinians with helpless dependency, while blaming Israel for their poverty. Many skilled, educated Palestinians have fled abroad. Hence, a Palestinian state will be from the outset a failed state with a population addicted to living on handouts. Good luck with that (see box).PM Marwan Barghouti? Really?Western experts rightly doubt whether an effective, democratic election can be held in a Palestinian state. They favor imposing a strongman autocrat. The leading candidate is Marwan Barghouti, once touted as Arafat’s successor. He is highly popular among Palestinians and has topped popularity polls for 20 years.Who is he? Barghouti headed the Tanzim, the PLO’s terrorist arm. In April 2002, Barghouti was arrested in Ramallah and charged with the killing of 26 people and belonging to a terrorist organization. He was given five life sentences and remains in an Israeli jail, candidate for a Hamas hostage exchange. If you think Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is a murderous thug, wait until you see his counterpart in action. Like Sinwar, Barghouti has used his time in jail to learn all of Israel’s foibles and weaknesses. We cannot risk having him lead a country on our borders. It did not work too well with Sinwar.Poverty bordering prosperityIt rankles Palestinians to see how prosperous Israel is ($58,000 GDP per capita) while they remain poor (West Bank and Gaza GDP per capita is about $3,800). A miserably poor Palestinian state next to hi-tech Israel is for them provocative. The Quran specifically calls Jews inferior. How come, then, we’re doing so well? I believe it is a major reason for their “Palestine river to sea” mantra. Israel embarrasses them.Writing in the daily Haaretz, David Rosenberg observes: “If the State of Palestine is impoverished and economically stagnant, political instability and violence won’t go away… given how small and close by Israel and Palestine will be.… Palestine’s problems are destined to spill over the border.”The sad part is, it need not be that way. Rosenberg notes that the Gaza Marine field offshore has some 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas, worth some $15 billion at current prices. The West Bank borders the Dead Sea and could share in its valuable minerals. If peace prevailed, Israel would be a major market for West Bank and Gaza goods. So would the markets of wealthy Gulf Arab countries. Moreover, half of all Palestinians now live abroad. Many are educated. Just as Israel absorbed a million educated Russian Jews, who fueled the hi-tech boom, so might a Palestinian state attract money and energy from its diaspora. But they will not return to a venal, corrupt state.PA: Corrupt to the coreIt is widely known around the world that the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, is hopelessly corrupt – right to the core. Lip service is paid to the notion of “reform” – finding clean-as-a-whistle technocrats who will not line their pockets to run the new Palestinian state.It is a pipe dream.A devastating report by Khaled Abu Toameh, released on July 23, 2023, “The Palestinian Authority’s Corruption and Its Impact on the Peace Process,” was published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The report asserts the following:“Nearly three decades after its establishment, the Palestinian Authority and its institutions continue unchecked in their corruption and human rights violations. This has negatively impacted the Palestinian public’s confidence in its leadership’s policies and decisions. The ramifications of this on the Palestinian Authority’s leadership have been devastating, especially regarding the peace process with Israel and its ability to lead the Palestinians toward statehood.“Many Palestinians observed that the only thing the ‘peace process’ brought about was the enrichment of senior PLO officials and their family members and associates, who greedily siphoned publicly designated funds to drive luxury cars and build extravagant mansions, particularly in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip.”The rampant corruption may have doomed the burgeoning peace process, according to Abu Toameh:“Many Palestinians quickly realized that what was unfolding before their eyes was no ‘peace process’ but a process of avaricious PLO leaders and their entourage diverting international aid and making huge profits out of the Oslo Accords. The conspicuous wealth and consumption of Mahmoud Abbas’ sons, Tarek and Yasser, have been very controversial in Palestinian society since 2009, when Reuters published articles linking Tarek and Yasser to several multi-million-dollar business deals, including a few that were US government contracts.“Western donors’ failure, or refusal, in the first two decades after the ‘peace process’ to hold the Palestinian Authority accountable for their outlandish abuse of funds was one of the main reasons most Palestinians lost faith in the Oslo Accords. Corruption remains a significant obstacle to fulfilling the national aspirations of the Palestinians, particularly in building a democratic society, transparent institutions, and establishing a Palestinian state.“Worse, the corruption has played into the hands of the Palestinian Authority’s rivals, particularly Hamas, the Islamist movement that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and whose 1988 Charter calls for Jihad (holy war).”Hamas was, and remains, highly popular in the West Bank. It leveraged popular hatred of Palestinian Authority corruption and has rapidly replaced it with its own corruption, visible in the mountains of cash the IDF has found in the Gaza tunnels. A viable Palestinian state cannot emerge from a rotten culture with leaders who have sticky fingers, and where political influence is sought solely for personal enrichment. Not entirely unknown in Israel, either. As Likud Sports and Culture Minister Miki Zohar once put it: “Kavod, koach, kesef” (Honor, power, money). A trial state in GazaAfter 2,000 bleak words of doom and gloom, I desperately searched for a positive, creative idea. I found it in an article by Jerome M. Segal, director of the International Peace Consultancy, in Foreign Affairs, February 2024. Here is a brief summary of his proposal:In 1995, Segal pitched his 20-point Gaza-first proposal to Yasser Arafat, at the request of [then-prime minister] Shimon Peres. Arafat rejected it. The basic idea, revived in 2024: A three-year test period for a trial Palestinian state in Gaza only, backed by the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE; if the PLO accepts, the US will support recognizing the State of Palestine; as Israel withdraws from Gaza, Hamas accepts PLO authority, with acceptance of a Palestinian declaration of independence, that rejects the threat or use of force, violence and terrorism, against the territorial integrity of other states; if the three-year trial is successful, final status talks begin, built on former US secretary of state John Kerry’s 2016 plan, which included demilitarization of the Palestinian state, 1967 borders modified by equal land swaps, and a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem.Segal observes that Israelis who oppose a Palestinian state might agree to a Gaza-first test – if only because they believe it will fail. Palestinians may believe, at last, that it is a step toward a true independent Palestinian state.As war rages in Gaza, a way must be found to permanently remove the threat to Israel’s southern border in a manner that also meets Palestinian aspirations. So far, the 139 countries that recognized the State of Palestine have been part of the problem, not the solution, by pouring money into Gaza that stoked an underground war machine that could have instead fed, housed, clothed, and educated the people of Gaza. In Israel, the Start-Up Nation, entrepreneurs try ideas out as minimum viable products before scaling them up. How about a prototype Palestinian state, starting with Gaza as a minimum viable proposal, moving toward a fuller, more permanent solution, supervised and backed by nations with deep pockets and wise counsel? Can we talk? ––––––––––––––––––––Postscript: On February 26, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, in office since 2019, resigned. He may be replaced by Mohammad Mustafa, a former deputy prime minister, economist, and chairman of the Palestinian Investment Fund.Shtayyeh said he was resigning to allow for the formation of a broad consensus among Palestinians about “political arrangements” following Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The US has applied strong pressure on the Palestinian Authority to form a corruption-free government of technocrats, capable of administering Gaza.Shtayyeh opened the door to a national unity government in his resignation, without naming Hamas.“The upcoming phase and its challenges necessitate new governmental and political arrangements, taking into consideration the evolving situation in Gaza, national unity discussions, the urgent need for Palestinian consensus based on national unity, broad participation, solidarity, and the extension of authority over all of Palestine,” Shtayyeh said.According to Reuters, Mustafa has said the PA could do better “in terms of building better institutions, providing better governance so that ... we can reunite Gaza and the West Bank.” But “if we cannot remove occupation, no reformed government, no reformed institutions can actually build a good successful governing system or develop a proper economy,” he said.Mustafa said he would continue to focus on humanitarian efforts in the short and medium term, expressing hope that Gaza’s borders would be reopened and a reconstruction conference convened in the near future.Asked what future role he saw for Hamas, Mustafa said the “best way forward is to be as inclusive as possible,” adding that he would like Palestinians to unite around the PLO agenda. Mustafa, 69, who was born in Tulkarm, has a doctorate in business administration and economics from George Washington University, and worked at the World Bank in Washington. He was elected to the PLO Executive Committee in 2022.■A true expert weighs inCol. (ret.) Moshe Elad is my former Neaman Institute colleague, and a feet-on-the-ground West Bank expert. From 1982-1998, Elad served in senior roles in the West Bank. In 1995, following the Oslo Accords, he established the security coordination and liaison system with the Palestinian Authority (PA). He is the author of a new book, The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.“My opinion is that the Palestinian Authority in its current form has failed in every aspect of managing Palestinian society. It lost its half (the Gaza Strip) in the struggle with Hamas 17 years ago and managed its second half (the West Bank) with great difficulty, with a huge budget deficit, lack of transparency, and massive corruption. Another point that stands out in the management of the West Bank is the addiction to grants and the reluctance to leave the cycle of receiving without giving. In its current form, the Palestinian Authority is incapable – and we should not even try to allow it – to control the Gaza Strip. It is possible to improve the situation by introducing new people at the top of the Palestinian Authority who were known in the past for good management – with them there is a chance that it will succeed, provided that they have backing of any kind, moral, economic and financial. Unfortunately, the United States is too naive in its perception of the Palestinian Authority and believes it is sufficient that there are people there who wear suits and ties, who declare that they are not involved in terrorism and who maintain contacts with Washington in order to agree to cooperation. Biden and Blinken would not allow the Abu Mazen administration to enter any office in America, but they agree to allow them to manage Gaza. Therefore, this is sad and annoying.“We live in a Middle Eastern atmosphere that has its own rules. In Palestinian society, the leader is not criticized but rather protected. If you criticize him or his actions, it is interpreted as treason. That’s why for many decades we don’t hear about an opposition among the Palestinians, and if it existed it would certainly be tougher and more extreme. If Barghouti rules the West Bank after early release from prison, he will be more extreme than Sinwar.“Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority help Israel in an excellent way in security issues. The opposition in both countries and in the Palestinian Authority are constantly attacking Israel. The leaders, Sisi, Abdullah and Abu Mazen, who know the excellent security coordination and are aware of its fruits, are committed to the Arab “unity of the line” and therefore do not refrain from attacking us, as a ‘tax’ payment to their people.“Jordan receives annually 100 million cubic meters of water from Israel in accordance with the 1994 peace agreement. Have you ever heard a good word from them about it? If we didn’t provide them with water, they would dry up – but this is accepted by their citizens as an Israeli duty, and in general, why say thank you to the Zionist enemy?“Israel helped Egypt fight ISIS with intelligence and assistance in bringing troops into Sinai in violation of the 1978 peace agreement. The captains of Egypt went out of their way to thank us but in a discreet way only, while the huge opposition there did not appreciate it and did not say a good word but remained silent.“There are 25 countries in the world that according to The Economist are considered backward failed states. At the top of the list is Somalia. If the Palestinians get the status of a state, Somalia will only be second. In no parameter that has ever been tested have the Palestinians crossed the threshold of criticism: transparency, proper administration, security, corruption.”The writer heads the Zvi Griliches Research Data Center at S. Neaman Institute, Technion. He blogs at www.timnovate.wordpress.com.  Biden, Blinken, the European Union, Arab Gulf states, professors, diplomats – all assert that a (“two-state solution”) is the panacea for endless Mideast wars.  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is Jewish; his stepfather, Pisar, was the only one of 900 Polish schoolmates who survived the Holocaust. He has visited the Mideast six times since . Blinken has reportedly told the State Department to review policy options, including international recognition of a Palestinian state. PLO Secretary General Hussein al-Sheikh welcomes US Secretary of State Antony Blinken before his meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on February 7. (credit: Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/REUTERS) Presto!  They are simplifying – much more than is possible. The Mideast, alas, is a lot more complex than the special theory of relativity.  I, too, as a center-leftist, embraced the two-state solution idea — until I researched this column and talked to real experts.  Is a viable Palestinian state feasible? Does it hold promise for the Mideast? Or peril?  Peril. Below, I offer seven reasons – and a possible alternative. Let me begin first with a personal note about how to understand complex reality. I spent 35 years in an ivory tower, researching innovation and entrepreneurship. I believed I had become an expert. I wasn’t. I did not know what I did not know. Until I was given early retirement and went out into the world as academic director of Technion Institute of Management in Tel Aviv’s hi-tech Atidim site, working with global hi-tech firms and start-ups. Only then did I even begin to grasp the complexity of the real world.  Far too many experts are pushing Mideast solutions without extensive firsthand feet-on-the-ground, ears-to-the-ground expertise. They mean well. But their theories are not grounded in reality. They don’t know what they don’t know.  In 1937, Britain’s Peel Commission proposed creating two independent states in Palestine – one for Jews, one for Arabs. It gave the Arabs 80% of the land. The Jews voted to accept it. The Arabs rejected it and continued their violent rebellion. First rejection. On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted for Resolution 181 to create two states. The Jews accepted it. The Arabs rejected it by launching a war. Second rejection. In June 1967, after a stunning victory in the Six Day War, half the Israeli government wanted to return the West Bank to Jordan, and Gaza to Egypt; the other half wanted to give them to the Palestinians, hoping they would build their own state. But the Arab League met in Sudan and declared: no peace, no recognition, no negotiations. Third rejection. In 2000, prime minister Ehud Barak met at Camp David with PLO chair Yasser Arafat. Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank, with east Jerusalem as its capital. Arafat said no and launched a bloody wave of suicide bombings, killing over 1,000 Israelis. Fourth rejection. In 2008, prime minister Ehud Olmert expanded Barak’s offer, to include additional land. The new (and current) Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas turned it down. Fifth rejection. Try for a sixth rejection? I don’t think so. Three separate public opinion polls show that both Israelis and Palestinians reject the two-state solution – and the opposition to it is growing.  On July 29, 2023, two months before the October 7 massacre, The Jerusalem Post reported that a reliable poll showed “support for the two-state solution dropped significantly from September 2020 – from 42% to 33% among Palestinians, and 34% among Israelis. Two-thirds of Palestinians and 53% of Israeli Jews are opposed.” Polls by Gallup and Pew Research Center found exactly the same result. And a Peace Index survey from Tel Aviv University quoted by The New York Times also showed only 27% of Israelis support two states – and 24% of Palestinians. If neither Israelis nor Palestinians support a Palestinian state, does anyone believe it can be successfully imposed on them? Neither Gaza nor the West Bank has a viable economy – a precondition for an independent state. Some 90% of Gaza residents depended on UN food, healthcare, and education before the Gaza war. In 2022, some 30,208 truckloads of food, fuel, and cooking gas entered Gaza from the Rafah crossing with Egypt. And West Bank imports total 70% of GDP.  Humanitarian aid has been inhumane because it has imbued Palestinians with helpless dependency, while blaming Israel for their poverty. Many skilled, educated Palestinians have fled abroad. Hence, a Palestinian state will be from the outset a failed state with a population addicted to living on handouts. Good luck with that (see box). Western experts rightly doubt whether an effective, democratic election can be held in a Palestinian state. They favor imposing a strongman autocrat. The leading candidate is Marwan Barghouti, once touted as Arafat’s successor. He is highly popular among Palestinians and has topped popularity polls for 20 years. Who is he? Barghouti headed the Tanzim, the PLO’s terrorist arm. In April 2002, Barghouti was arrested in Ramallah and charged with the killing of 26 people and belonging to a terrorist organization. He was given five life sentences and remains in an Israeli jail, candidate for a Hamas hostage exchange.  If you think Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is a murderous thug, wait until you see his counterpart in action. Like Sinwar, Barghouti has used his time in jail to learn all of Israel’s foibles and weaknesses. We cannot risk having him lead a country on our borders. It did not work too well with Sinwar. It rankles Palestinians to see how prosperous Israel is ($58,000 GDP per capita) while they remain poor (West Bank and Gaza GDP per capita is about $3,800). A miserably poor Palestinian state next to hi-tech Israel is for them provocative. The Quran specifically calls Jews inferior. How come, then, we’re doing so well? I believe it is a major reason for their “Palestine river to sea” mantra. Israel embarrasses them. Writing in the daily Haaretz, David Rosenberg observes: “If the State of Palestine is impoverished and economically stagnant, political instability and violence won’t go away… given how small and close by Israel and Palestine will be.… Palestine’s problems are destined to spill over the border.” The sad part is, it need not be that way. Rosenberg notes that the Gaza Marine field offshore has some 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas, worth some $15 billion at current prices. The West Bank borders the Dead Sea and could share in its valuable minerals. If peace prevailed, Israel would be a major market for West Bank and Gaza goods. So would the markets of wealthy Gulf Arab countries.  Moreover, half of all Palestinians now live abroad. Many are educated. Just as Israel absorbed a million educated Russian Jews, who fueled the hi-tech boom, so might a Palestinian state attract money and energy from its diaspora. But they will not return to a venal, corrupt state. It is widely known around the world that the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, is hopelessly corrupt – right to the core. Lip service is paid to the notion of “reform” – finding clean-as-a-whistle technocrats who will not line their pockets to run the new Palestinian state. It is a pipe dream. A devastating report by Khaled Abu Toameh, released on July 23, 2023, “The Palestinian Authority’s Corruption and Its Impact on the Peace Process,” was published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The report asserts the following: “Nearly three decades after its establishment, the Palestinian Authority and its institutions continue unchecked in their corruption and human rights violations. This has negatively impacted the Palestinian public’s confidence in its leadership’s policies and decisions. The ramifications of this on the Palestinian Authority’s leadership have been devastating, especially regarding the peace process with Israel and its ability to lead the Palestinians toward statehood. “Many Palestinians observed that the only thing the ‘peace process’ brought about was the enrichment of senior PLO officials and their family members and associates, who greedily siphoned publicly designated funds to drive luxury cars and build extravagant mansions, particularly in Ramallah and the Gaza Strip.” The rampant corruption may have doomed the burgeoning peace process, according to Abu Toameh: “Many Palestinians quickly realized that what was unfolding before their eyes was no ‘peace process’ but a process of avaricious PLO leaders and their entourage diverting international aid and making huge profits out of the Oslo Accords. The conspicuous wealth and consumption of Mahmoud Abbas’ sons, Tarek and Yasser, have been very controversial in Palestinian society since 2009, when Reuters published articles linking Tarek and Yasser to several multi-million-dollar business deals, including a few that were US government contracts. “Western donors’ failure, or refusal, in the first two decades after the ‘peace process’ to hold the Palestinian Authority accountable for their outlandish abuse of funds was one of the main reasons most Palestinians lost faith in the Oslo Accords. Corruption remains a significant obstacle to fulfilling the national aspirations of the Palestinians, particularly in building a democratic society, transparent institutions, and establishing a Palestinian state. “Worse, the corruption has played into the hands of the Palestinian Authority’s rivals, particularly Hamas, the Islamist movement that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and whose 1988 Charter calls for Jihad (holy war).” Hamas was, and remains, highly popular in the West Bank. It leveraged popular hatred of Palestinian Authority corruption and has rapidly replaced it with its own corruption, visible in the mountains of cash the IDF has found in the Gaza tunnels.  A viable Palestinian state cannot emerge from a rotten culture with leaders who have sticky fingers, and where political influence is sought solely for personal enrichment. Not entirely unknown in Israel, either. As Likud Sports and Culture Minister Miki Zohar once put it: “Kavod, koach, kesef” (Honor, power, money).  After 2,000 bleak words of doom and gloom, I desperately searched for a positive, creative idea. I found it in an article by Jerome M. Segal, director of the International Peace Consultancy, in Foreign Affairs, February 2024. Here is a brief summary of his proposal: In 1995, Segal pitched his 20-point Gaza-first proposal to Yasser Arafat, at the request of [then-prime minister] Shimon Peres. Arafat rejected it.  The basic idea, revived in 2024: A three-year test period for a trial Palestinian state in Gaza only, backed by the US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE; if the PLO accepts, the US will support recognizing the State of Palestine; as Israel withdraws from Gaza, Hamas accepts PLO authority, with acceptance of a Palestinian declaration of independence, that rejects the threat or use of force, violence and terrorism, against the territorial integrity of other states; if the three-year trial is successful, final status talks begin, built on former US secretary of state John Kerry’s 2016 plan, which included demilitarization of the Palestinian state, 1967 borders modified by equal land swaps, and a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem. Segal observes that Israelis who oppose a Palestinian state might agree to a Gaza-first test – if only because they believe it will fail. Palestinians may believe, at last, that it is a step toward a true independent Palestinian state. As war rages in Gaza, a way must be found to permanently remove the threat to Israel’s southern border in a manner that also meets Palestinian aspirations.  So far, the 139 countries that recognized the State of Palestine have been part of the problem, not the solution, by pouring money into Gaza that stoked an underground war machine that could have instead fed, housed, clothed, and educated the people of Gaza.  In Israel, the Start-Up Nation, entrepreneurs try ideas out as minimum viable products before scaling them up.  How about a prototype Palestinian state, starting with Gaza as a minimum viable proposal, moving toward a fuller, more permanent solution, supervised and backed by nations with deep pockets and wise counsel?  –––––––––––––––––––– Postscript: On February 26, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, in office since 2019, resigned. He may be replaced by Mohammad Mustafa, a former deputy prime minister, economist, and chairman of the Palestinian Investment Fund. Shtayyeh said he was resigning to allow for the formation of a broad consensus among Palestinians about “political arrangements” following Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The US has applied strong pressure on the Palestinian Authority to form a corruption-free government of technocrats, capable of administering Gaza.Shtayyeh opened the door to a national unity government in his resignation, without naming Hamas. “The upcoming phase and its challenges necessitate new governmental and political arrangements, taking into consideration the evolving situation in Gaza, national unity discussions, the urgent need for Palestinian consensus based on national unity, broad participation, solidarity, and the extension of authority over all of Palestine,” Shtayyeh said. According to Reuters, Mustafa has said the PA could do better “in terms of building better institutions, providing better governance so that ... we can reunite Gaza and the West Bank.” But “if we cannot remove occupation, no reformed government, no reformed institutions can actually build a good successful governing system or develop a proper economy,” he said. Mustafa said he would continue to focus on humanitarian efforts in the short and medium term, expressing hope that Gaza’s borders would be reopened and a reconstruction conference convened in the near future. Asked what future role he saw for Hamas, Mustafa said the “best way forward is to be as inclusive as possible,” adding that he would like Palestinians to unite around the PLO agenda. Mustafa, 69, who was born in Tulkarm, has a doctorate in business administration and economics from George Washington University, and worked at the World Bank in Washington. He was elected to the PLO Executive Committee in 2022.■ Col. (ret.) Moshe Elad is my former Neaman Institute colleague, and a feet-on-the-ground West Bank expert. From 1982-1998, Elad served in senior roles in the West Bank. In 1995, following the Oslo Accords, he established the security coordination and liaison system with the Palestinian Authority (PA). He is the author of a new book, The Core Issues of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. “My opinion is that the Palestinian Authority in its current form has failed in every aspect of managing Palestinian society. It lost its half (the Gaza Strip) in the struggle with Hamas 17 years ago and managed its second half (the West Bank) with great difficulty, with a huge budget deficit, lack of transparency, and massive corruption. Another point that stands out in the management of the West Bank is the addiction to grants and the reluctance to leave the cycle of receiving without giving. In its current form, the Palestinian Authority is incapable – and we should not even try to allow it – to control the Gaza Strip. It is possible to improve the situation by introducing new people at the top of the Palestinian Authority who were known in the past for good management – with them there is a chance that it will succeed, provided that they have backing of any kind, moral, economic and financial. Unfortunately, the United States is too naive in its perception of the Palestinian Authority and believes it is sufficient that there are people there who wear suits and ties, who declare that they are not involved in terrorism and who maintain contacts with Washington in order to agree to cooperation. Biden and Blinken would not allow the Abu Mazen administration to enter any office in America, but they agree to allow them to manage Gaza. Therefore, this is sad and annoying. “We live in a Middle Eastern atmosphere that has its own rules. In Palestinian society, the leader is not criticized but rather protected. If you criticize him or his actions, it is interpreted as treason. That’s why for many decades we don’t hear about an opposition among the Palestinians, and if it existed it would certainly be tougher and more extreme. If Barghouti rules the West Bank after early release from prison, he will be more extreme than Sinwar. “Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority help Israel in an excellent way in security issues. The opposition in both countries and in the Palestinian Authority are constantly attacking Israel. The leaders, Sisi, Abdullah and Abu Mazen, who know the excellent security coordination and are aware of its fruits, are committed to the Arab “unity of the line” and therefore do not refrain from attacking us, as a ‘tax’ payment to their people. “Jordan receives annually 100 million cubic meters of water from Israel in accordance with the 1994 peace agreement. Have you ever heard a good word from them about it? If we didn’t provide them with water, they would dry up – but this is accepted by their citizens as an Israeli duty, and in general, why say thank you to the Zionist enemy? “Israel helped Egypt fight ISIS with intelligence and assistance in bringing troops into Sinai in violation of the 1978 peace agreement. The captains of Egypt went out of their way to thank us but in a discreet way only, while the huge opposition there did not appreciate it and did not say a good word but remained silent. “There are 25 countries in the world that according to The Economist are considered backward failed states. At the top of the list is Somalia. If the Palestinians get the status of a state, Somalia will only be second. In no parameter that has ever been tested have the Palestinians crossed the threshold of criticism: transparency, proper administration, security, corruption.” The writer heads the Zvi Griliches Research Data Center at S. Neaman Institute, Technion. He blogs at www.timnovate.wordpress.com.  ...قراءة المزيد

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