The Riots on the Gaza Border are Carefully Coordinated Attacks on Israel, and Should Be Treated as Such
A UN investigation is based on faulty premises.
January 16, 2019
The Riots on the Gaza Border are Carefully Coordinated Attacks on Israel, and Should Be Treated as Such
A UN investigation is based on faulty premises.
On Friday, the weekly riots at the Gaza security fence resumed in full force: 13,000 people participated, and a Palestinian woman was apparently killed by Israeli gunfire. The UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) had established a commission of inquiry in May, not long after these riots began, “to investigate all alleged violations and abuses of international humanitarian law and international human-rights law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, . . . particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, in the context of the military assaults on the large-scale civilian protests that began on March 20, 2018.” In a report to the commission, Richard Kemp, a retired senior British officer, concludes, after investigating the situation at the Gaza border, that there is no evidence whatsoever of Israeli wrongdoing, and that the commission is operating under faulty assumptions:
January 16, 2019
Why the Peace Process Doesn’t Rank High on Israeli Voters’ Agenda
The PA has no interest in making peace.
In the Three Years after the Nuclear Deal, Little Has Been Done to Ensure Iranian Compliance
Missiles and undisclosed nuclear sites.
An English Power Couple Travel to Israel in 1978; the Non-Jewish Half Identifies with the Country’s Security Concerns
Antonia Fraser’s diary and Harold Pinter’s (temporary) homecoming.
Like Her Defense of Tyrannical Regimes, Angela Davis’s Anti-Semitism Has a Long Track Record
It is not racism to deny honoring her.