Melanie Phillips: When it comes to the West, the Israelis not only fail to grasp the eye-watering depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.
Israel Kasnett: Israel’s Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern noted that within its first month, the new government has implemented the law “without public pressure and without a petition to the High Court.”
Ruthie Blum: In the warped world of Palestinian terrorists, having a friend die of an illness in an Israeli jail is sufficient cause to slaughter an innocent woman jogging through the forest near her home.
Israel Kasnett: Pursuing banks that hold or transfer money for terrorists and/or their families makes much more sense since going after individual terrorists “is like putting a Band-Aid on cancer.”
After a fight to keep them secret, the British government will comply with an order from its Information Commissioner to disclose reports regarding grant money allegedly used to pay salaries to terrorists.
David Singer: The barrage of more than 700 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza this past weekend and the “pay for slay” policy pursued by the PLO to reward those Palestinian Arabs who murder and maim Jews cannot continue to be met by only pious condemnations from the United Nations or even from President Trump himself.
“We reject the tax; we don’t want it,” Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas told visiting members of the U.S. Congress. “Frankly, if we are left with only 20 or 30 million shekels, which is the sum paid to families of martyrs, then we will pay them to the families of martyrs.”
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas declared that he would not stop paying salaries to convicted terrorists and their families, despite new Israeli legislation withholding funds in the amount paid to killers and attackers from taxes collected for the P.A.
