The Palestinian Authority Deliberately Provoked Sunday’s Jerusalem Riots
Using a Jewish day of mourning to attack visitors to the Temple Mount.
August 16, 2019
The Data on Happiness Give the Lie to Stories of Palestinian Misery
Happier than Egyptians or Tunisians.
While it is little surprise that Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan came in at the bottom of the UN’s annual ranking of the world’s happiest countries, more surprising to anyone getting information from the Western press or the United Nations itself is the fact that “the Palestinian territories”—i.e., the Gaza Strip and the Arab residents of the West Bank—ranked 110th out of 156. And this from a report that omits nearly 30 UN member states, among them North Korea, that would most likely fall toward the bottom of the list. Hillel Frisch comments:
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A New York Town Fights to Keep Hasidic Jews Out
Naked prejudice in the Hudson Valley.
The Data on Happiness Give the Lie to Stories of Palestinian Misery
Happier than Egyptians or Tunisians.
Want to Buy an Arabic Edition of “Mein Kampf” or Read about the “Zionist Octopus”? Head to the Saudi Arabian Book Fair
A sign of the slow pace of reform.
A Virtuous Public Life Could Help Protect against Technology’s Erosion of Privacy
“How fair are your tents, O Jacob.”