The Middle East and Current Events


PM’s remarks on Hitler and Mufti Husseini ignite firestorm

By HERB KEINON \ 10/21/2015 09:54 Hitler is responsible for the Holocaust, but the Palestinian Arab leader at the time, Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, encouraged him and also wanted to see the Jews dead, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, a day after triggering furious reactions for intimating Husseini had planted the idea of the Final Solution in Hitler’s mind. Netanyahu’s clarification came as he boarded […]


Israel Sends $50 Million a Month to the Palestinians?

Why Israel Collects Taxes for the Palestinian Authority By Daniel Engber  (February 2006) Israel’s prime minister will decide on Sunday whether to begin economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. To protest the new Hamas-led government, Israel may stop sending the Palestinians the $50 million a month in taxes it collects on their behalf. Why does Israel collect taxes for the Palestinians? That’s the arrangement they worked out during […]


Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely: Islamic State ‘mentality’ has reached Palestinians

The Times of Israel 16:56 Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely tells the BBC that the use of Palestinian children to attack Israeli children shows that the mindset of the Islamic State has infiltrated into the Palestinian consciousness. “With these brutal knifings of Israeli children by Palestinian children we are seeing the IS mentality entering the Palestinian arena,” she says. Hotovely disputes arguments that the recent violence was down […]


ISRAEL AND THE WORLD WATER CRISIS

  Issue 31 October 2015 The Tower Magazine How Israel Is Solving the Global Water Crisis David Hazony Editor of The Tower click for full bio >>  Israel could not have made the desert bloom without its incredible innovations in water technology. As the world becomes more aware of the importance of conserving water, they are turning to Israel for exports and expertise. The world is in a water […]