Senator Elizabeth Warren has in the last few years been delivering herself of ever more strident anti-Israel remarks. In October 2019, she said “everything is on the table” should Israel move away from a two-state solution. By “two-state solution,” she did not mean the one offered by the Trump Administration, but one which would be based on the “1967 lines,” which means the 1949 armistice lines. In May 2020, she signed a letter with 18 Senate Democrats opposing Israel’s possible “annexation” – really, an extension of sovereignty of territories in the West Bank. On the campaign trail, the senator said she would push Israel to end its “ongoing occupation of Palestinian land” – and denounced the country’s decision to bar Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from entering the West Bank and East Jerusalem where, of course, they would have participated in an anti-Israel propaganda fest, complete with visits to the demolished houses of
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An Israeli appeals court recently upheld a decision by a lower court to evict Palestinian squatters living rent-free on Jewish-owned land in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon HaTzadik. Although the debate surrounding the property dates back many years, the issue this week exploded into the limelight as Palestinians for several nights on end clashed with Israeli police and Jewish residents of the area.
Most major media outlets were quick to adopt the Palestinian narrative that the real estate dispute between private parties was somehow linked to alleged attempts by Israel to “Judaize” Jerusalem and simultaneous riots by tens of thousands of Arabs on Temple Mount and near the Old City’s Damascus Gate. In reality, though, the situation in Sheikh Jarrah/Shimon HaTzadik is unrelated and highly complex, as demonstrated by the fact that the case has been working its way through the courts for decades. In fact, several Palestinian tena
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7th May 2021
What happened: This morning three Palestinians opened fire toward an IDF Border Police base on the northern edge of the West Bank in an unusual daylight shooting attack. According to initial reports, two of the three gunmen were subsequently killed and the third was seriously injured and evacuated to a hospital. All three men were carrying Carlo sub machine guns.
The shooting attack followed a night of heightened tensions in Jerusalem as Palestinian residents clashed with Israel Police over the imminent eviction of several families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
Palestinian residents attacked police officers with stones and firecrackers, as well as torched a vehicle owned by a Jewish resident. Fifteen rioters were arrested. Several Jewish residents of the adjacent Shimon Hatzadik neighbourhood drew handguns in response to the rioters.