The invention of Palestine

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JEWISH PRESS— What a remarkable breath of fresh air. For the first time in recent memory, a prominent American politician has had the courage to speak some unvarnished truths about the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. In video footage released on December 9, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told the Jewish…

The great deceiver

BY EARL COX, JPOST— For the past two weeks I have been in Israel introducing political leaders and legislators from the southeastern region of the United States to Israeli officials in Jerusalem and also to the mayors of several Israeli towns and cities along the Gaza border. As I sat with my delegation of dignitaries…

A badly invented people

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD, FRONTPAGEMAG— In the post-news environment, media no longer exists to report, it exists to disseminate glib talking points that sound good at first, but don’t stand up to examination. Fact checks, one of the latest media gimmicks, have become another vector for disseminating talking points. So have media blogs which began repeating…

A new home for Hamas?

BY HOURIYA AHMED AND JULIA PETTENGILL, FOREIGN POLICY— The shifting allegiances in this tumultuous era of Arab politics have come to resemble a game of musical chairs. According to an unnamed Hamas official quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the hard-line Palestinian group is seeking to move its political headquarters from Damascus as early as…

Who are the Palestinians?

By YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL HAYOM— Contrary to political correctness, Palestinian Arabs have not been in the area west of the Jordan River from time immemorial; no Palestinian state ever existed, no Palestinian People was ever robbed of its land and there is no basis for the Palestinian “claim of return.” Most Palestinian Arabs are descendants…