By Arutz 7 China’s President, Xi Jinping, announced on Thursday that his country supports the creation of a Palestinian state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital, based on the pre-1967 borders. Xi’s comments were made during a visit to Cairo and were reported by the Egyptian Al-Ahram newspaper. The Chinese leader announced in a speech […]
“The Philistines are upon you” – Judges 16:20 By David Semple The word Palestine derives from Philistine, which means “invader.” Biblical scholars trace the word to the Semitic root p-l-s, which means “to divide” or “invade.” The Philistines lived in Gaza and came from islands in the Aegean Sea, circa 12th century BCE). They were […]
By Howard Klineberg Mahmoud Abbas has stated at the Arab League meeting this weekend in Cairo that he (that is, the Palestinian Authority) will never recognise Israel as a Jewish State. Abbas charged that instead of advancing the peace process, Israel was working to set up an apartheid state, including Jews-only buses, establishment of Israeli […]
By Paul Mirbach The alliance between the radical Left and the Palestinian cause is now a commonplace political axis. I suppose it is understandable on a superficial level. It has always been the Left’s favourite pastime to champion the cause of the downtrodden (except when it came to the Jews’ plight in the 1930s). They […]
By David Semple The political council of the PLO has announced it intends to submit a resolution to the UN Security Council to demand the “full withdrawal of Israel, the occupying power, from all the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, as rapidly as possible and to be fully completed within a specific […]
