Although much is heard about the plight of the Palestinian refugees from the aftermath of the 1948 Israeli War of Independence and the 1967 Six Day War, little is said about the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced to flee from Arab states before and after the creation of Israel. In fact, these refugees were largely forgotten because they were assimilated into their new homes, most in Israel, and neither the United Nations nor any other international agency took up their cause or demanded restitution for the property and money taken from them. Legislation passed in the Knesset during 2015 designated November 30 as a day of recognition for Jewish refugees from Arab countries.

This article is worth a read, if anything for being honest about facts and history.

Note: These are the schools run by the U.N. in the Palestinian territories of Gaza, Judaea and Samaria. The United Nations. And they are written by the Palestinian Ministry of Education, part of the Palestinian Authority which signed the Oslo Accords and officially recognizes Israel, not by Hamas.

So while the U.N. and the U.S. admonish Israel for expanding the settlements, Palestinian children are raised and educated by the U.N. to believe that the State of Israel itself is completely illegitimate.

This is not simply "anti-Israel bias". This is not pursuing a "Two State Solution". This is anti-Semitic bullshit.

This is a good article because it is an in-depth analysis rather than the usual shallow reporting. Good for those who want to understand what makes Abbas tick.

The choice of terminology used by news is a subtle but key factor in how it is interpreted, especially by the least knowledgeable readers. To deny or failure to mention that this site is the site of the Temple and the holiest site for Jews is a grave omission. In a piece of news I read yesterday, the note mentioned that this thing started when an activist Jew was demanding the right to pray "in Islam's second holiest site" without mentioning that it is Judaism's absolute holiest site.

This is an interesting article on the aftermath of the Gaza war, as written by an Italian journalist.

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This will be the weirdest thing you read today.

The lesson is: maybe taking the numbers given out by a terrorist organization at face value is not the best thing to do

Straight from the horse's mouse. Very sick.

In Hamas' sick demented logic, a dead Israeli in the hands of Hamas is good for their cause, and a dead Palestinian in the hands of Israel is also good for their cause. While Israel sends civilians to bomb shelters, Hamas uses them as human shields, and hides weapons in houses, schools, hospitals, mosques.

Interesting inside take on the boycott of goods produced in the territories. Are they harming who they intend to harm? Are Israeli companies not supposed to invest and set up facilities there and provide employment to the local population?

Get them while they're young? Educating towards hatred is a very difficult thing to reverse later in life.

This is a very bad turn of events. Fayyad is perhaps the only true statesman in the PLO, someone whose real top interest is in building a viable Palestinian State rather than focusing on enemies or succumbing to corruption.

So according to Reuters, a bomb in the middle of a city deliberately set off to hurt civilians is not terror.

Interesting, if not entirely surprising.

Interesting insight on the Gaza blockade.

Fantastic and very interesting interview with Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef and former Mossad spy.