Israel’s Eurovision win: The good, the bad and the ugly
May 18, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro and AIJAC Staff
The 2018 Eurovision song contest, perhaps the world’s most popular pop music competition, saw the Israeli entry sung by Netta Barzilai walk away the winner.
IDF commander: ‘Hamas is exploiting our morality’
May 18, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro
Much has been written and said this week about the clashes along the Gaza border, but besides general reactions from the IDF Spokesperson, we haven’t had an opportunity to hear from the commanders in the field – until now.
No doubt Hamas controls the Gaza protests
May 17, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro
Amid the massive local coverage, Hamas’ involvement in orchestrating the protests on the Gaza-Israel border and the attempts to breach the fence has been reported as a matter of speculation, rather than fact. However, mounting evidence should end the debate.
Social Media directive exposes invasion, kidnapping plot behind Hamas’ “March of Return”
May 15, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro
A coordinated Gazan Social Media directive exposes an invasion and kidnapping plot behind Hamas’ “March of Return” – explicit instructions for armed protesters to assemble with the goal of kidnapping civilians for Hamas.
Lebanese election underscores that “Hezbollah=Lebanon”
May 10, 2018 | Oved Lobel
Hezbollah acts as a “state with in a state,” maintaining its own domestic security services and extremely powerful military forces and conducting its own, or rather Iran’s, foreign policy. Furthermore, it is also the kingmaker, the most powerful force in official Lebanese politics, and this election hasn’t changed that reality; rather, it seems to have cemented it.
Former weapons inspectors: contrary to “nothing new” claims, Israel’s Iran revelations are actually a “jackpot”
May 10, 2018 | Tzvi Fleischer and AIJAC staff
In his declaration that the US would withdraw from the 2015 deal with Iran, aka The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), US President Donald Trump stated that the information about Iran that Israel uncovered in January and publicly revealed on April 30 is “conclusively showing the Iranian regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons.”
What we know about the major Israeli-Iranian exchange of fire in and around Syria overnight
May 10, 2018 | AIJAC staff
According to the Israeli military sources, in the early hours of Thursday (May 10), the Al-Quds forces of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fired around 20 rockets from inside Syria at Israeli targets. The Iranians used MLRS (multiple launch rocket systems), possibly the Fajr 5, of either Iranian or Russian make….
The IDF responded very strongly, hitting a long list of Iranian targets deep inside Syria with airstrikes, in what Israeli officials defined as the largest in scale “since it signed on a disengagement agreement with Syria in May 1974″…
Macron’s Australia visit shows he “gets it” on the flaws of the JCPOA
May 4, 2018 | Naomi Levin
In an update to our earlier article published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, the future of the Iran nuclear deal was indeed prominently discussed during French President Emmanuel Macron’s Australian visit.
The silence over the Palestinians of Syria
May 1, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro and AIJAC Staff
The ISIS-held Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus has been bombed into submission by the Assad regime, without regard to civilian human life. Where is the outrage – even among many Palestinians?
Pro-settlement MK laments: Netanyahu is slowing construction in settlements
April 30, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been reducing approvals of construction within the settlements, according to Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel from the right-wing Jewish Home party, Ynet reported on April 26.
Palestinian incitement highlights Nazi themes
April 20, 2018 | AIJAC staff
In a chilling instance of timing, the Jewish World noted Holocaust (Shoah) memorial day this week, just as Holocaust denial and other Nazi-related themes featured prominently in Palestinian incitement against Israel in recent weeks.
Cash-strapped Jordan may yet fully embrace Israel peace dividend
April 16, 2018 | Ahron Shapiro
Nearly a quarter-century since signing a peace agreement with Israel, there are increasing signs that Jordan is ready to fully embrace the economic dividend the peace agreement promised but has, until now, failed to fully deliver to its economy.
