To the Western Media, Palestinians Aren’t Fully Human
The press says they’re desperate; they insist they hate Jews.
May 16, 2018
The Temple Mount Sifting Project, Fourteen Years On
From First Temple pottery to Byzantine churches.
In the 1990s, the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement (since outlawed by Israel as a terrorist group), together with the Jordan-run waqf, which administers Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, decided to build a large new mosque on the Temple Mount. To enable construction—and in violation of Israeli law—thousands of tons of dirt were removed from the Mount, thus making impossible a proper archaeological excavation where artifacts can be evaluated based on where they were found, but also making a huge quantity of artifacts accessible to Israeli researchers. Gabriel Barkay and Zachi Dvira, realizing this, began the Temple Mount Sifting Project, staffed largely by volunteers, in which the dirt is mined for archaeological treasure. Here they report on some of their most significant finds, beginning with some of the oldest:
May 16, 2018
With Escalating Conflict in Syria, Israel Can’t Afford to Flinch
Iran hasn’t given up on its plans.
A Holocaust Museum Exhibit Goes Out of Its Way to Defend FDR
Other U.S. presidents protested anti-Semitism abroad.
The Temple Mount Sifting Project, Fourteen Years On
From First Temple pottery to Byzantine churches.
The Iraqi Elections Were Not an Unqualified Win for Iran
It’s worth celebrating the peaceful transfer of power.