Why?

For weeks we watch as the Gazans torch, burn, and destroy our fields, crops, and nature reserve. When we finally retaliate they want a ceasefire. And we agree. Why?!

Palestinian Arab Apartheid

According to Arutz Sheva:

Entrenched apartheid in the 'West Bank'
by David Singer
A discriminatory two-tiered segregation system is maintained throughout Areas A and B in the 'West Bank.'
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PLO Lies

David Singer in Israel National News:

False narrative haunts PLO and UN as Trump courts Arab States
By
David Singer
Nabil Abu Rudeineh - spokesman for Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – has angrily reacted to President Trump’s intensive diplomatic efforts seeking to enlist Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in advancing Trump’s long-awaited “deal of the century” to end the Arab-Jewish conflict. Rudeineh fulminated: “The American delegation should abandon the illusion that creating false facts and falsifying history are going to help it sell those illusions.” Creating false facts and falsifying history has been the province of the PLO and the United Nations (UN) for decades.

The 1968 PLO Charter declared the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the 1922 Mandate for Palestine and everything subsequently based on them to be null and void. The United Nations publication “The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem 1917-1988” (“Study”) - published by the Division for Palestinian Rights of the United Nations Secretariat for, and under the guidance of, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People - falsely claimed: "After investigating various alternatives the United Nations proposed the partitioning of Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish…” The UN proposal – Resolution 181(II) - actually referred to: "Independent Arab and Jewish States”… Resolution 181(II) clearly denied the existence of any distinctly identifiable Palestinian people in 1947 – yet the Study falsified this narrative. The Study also omitted to mention that 78% of Palestine had already become an independent Arab State in 1946 and been renamed the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan. Creating a separate state for the “Palestinians” - never identified as a separate people by the international community in 1947 – is seen by that same international community in 2018 to be the only solution capable of ending the conflict between Jews and Arabs. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Two peoples – the Jews and the Arabs – already have their own independent States in former Palestine - named Israel and Jordan. Rudeineh continued: "Despite the burden of regional issues, there are things that cannot be weighed with gold and humanitarian aid, or solutions that try to cut from a more than 100-year-old historical conflict." This is the first time the PLO has ever acknowledged that the Jewish-Arab conflict originated in the events following the Balfour Declaration in 1917 – not the events following the 1948 Arab-Israel War. UN Secretary-General Guterres helped perpetuate this falsehood when recently referring to the “Israeli/Palestinian conflict”. There were no “Israelis” or “Palestinians” 95 years ago when the preamble to the Mandate for Palestine declared: “Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine , or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; “ British reversal of this policy in 1922 saw Transjordan – today called Jordan – totally closed to Jewish settlement to prevent the reconstitution of the Jewish National Home there. The 1937 Peel Commission counted for nothing.

Forty crucial years in Palestine’s history until 1948 were shredded by the PLO and materially altered by the UN Study in propagating the “Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People”. Rudeineh’s statements mark a welcome return to reality. Getting other Arab interlocutors to replace the PLO in negotiations with Israel remains Trump’s crucial starting point to ending the Arab-Jewish conflict.

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Happy Entebbe Day

On June 27th 1976 , an  Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris, carrying 247 passengers and 12 crew members, was hijacked by Palestinian Arab and German terrorists. The hijackers landed the plane at Benghazi, Libya and flew it from there to Entebbe in Uganda, 4,000 kilometers from Israel. Once in Entebbe Airport all Jews and Israelis were taken hostage while other passengers were freed. The situation seemed hopeless. Here in Israel a dark depression enveloped the country. Then, on July 4th 1976, the Israeli Government announced the incredible and amazing news of the liberation of the Jewish and Israeli hostages by IDF commandos. 42 years have passed since that miraculous and mind-blowing day . . . but for me, and I am sure, for many others, the "Fourth of July" will always be "Entebbe Day."

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On The Beach

When I want to express my personal feelings in a cartoon, I use Mr. Shuldig and his dog Doobie.
It's great to live here in Israel,
and I just wanted to say it.

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