Yisrael Medad - JNS, Author at J-Wire

‘Hasbara’: Fostering counter-narrative engagement

Yisrael Medad - JNS — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:22:48 +0000

Yisrael Medad: Who practices apartheid if not Arabs who, for example, permit every visitor to the Temple Mount to drink from the water fountain there, except the Jews?

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The elasticising of semantics

Yisrael Medad - JNS — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:36:31 +0000

Israel Medad: Where is actual apartheid practiced, if not within the confines of the Haram A-Sharif on the Temple Mount, where Jews cannot even drink water from the fountains—not to mention pray or even just read from the Bible?

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The UN-Abbas Playground

Yisrael Medad - JNS — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 02:49:43 +0000

Abbas knows that the U.N. is his playground, his theater, for denial of Israel's rights to exist, and the existence of Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount. And his stage is becoming increasingly immoral, malevolent and extremely hazardous, revealed by the applause Abbas received from that seemingly august, peace-loving body.

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Jordan’s King at the UN

Yisrael Medad - JNS — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 04:38:00 +0000

Jordan’s king has presented, as in the past, a false description of history and of current political affairs. And on that basis, suggest “solutions” that can only weaken Israel’s security, its rightful legal and historical claims, in addition to its future needs.

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Oslo Accords’ first quarter-century … and their next

Yisrael Medad - JNS — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 23:51:53 +0000

Yisrael Medad: Has today’s Israel overcome the trap that was the document called the Oslo Accords? Not yet.

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King Abdullah, let’s keep the geography correct

Yisrael Medad - JNS — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:20:35 +0000

If opponents of Israel’s administration of Judea and Samaria—what they refer to as a “West Bank” (and where is that other “East Bank,” if not in Jordan)—based their disapproval in part on a so-called “demographic threat,” they cannot easily, and shouldn’t be permitted to, dismiss the demographic reality of Jordan as a “Palestinian” entity.

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