According to biblical texts and the scholars who study them, it was probably around 1250 BC that the Hebrews came in and divided the land into areas governed by the twelve Jewish tribes, who started to form one Jewish nation.

Egypt, which also borders Gaza, quickly caught on and, alongside Israel, enacted a blockade on the Strip, trying to stop ammunition supply from reaching Hamas.

The claim of ethnic cleansing is particularly ridiculous given the fact that not all Arabs left or got pushed out. In fact, some 150,000 Arabs heeded Ben-Gurion’s invitation for democracy and equality written in the Declaration of Independence, stayed put in their homes, and became Israeli citizens, enjoying full rights in the new state, for themse

2007 he opened a factory in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, which employed 1,100 workers—850 Palestinians and 250 Jews—a beautiful tapestry of the region working together every day. The social justice keyboard warriors of BDS got a whiff of this blasphemous coexistence, and their manic base was activated.

Though you won’t get this from your shiny BDS leaflets, the boycott movement preceded the State of Israel. In fact, the movement has nothing to do with any recent land disputes in the West Bank or anywhere else.

The problem, as always, starts and ends with education, and this is where I do have a real issue. One of the political deals that’s been cut with the Orthodox parties over the years allows the Charedi community to create its own education system, which is sponsored by the rest of Israeli taxpayers. That system is based on studying the Torah and its

The real damage is to the lives and livelihoods of the Palestinian people themselves.

On the other hand, an Arab state, as granted by the UN, was not created, by choice of the Arabs, not the Jews. As

But suicide bombings in the cities stopped. And this is what is so frustrating about being a liberal in that neighborhood. We hate that this is happening to Palestinian families, but what are our options? What are we supposed to do? The violence had to stop.