Will the Palestinian Authority Pay Salaries to Arsonists?
If it does, a few fire trucks seem like an empty gesture.
December 7, 2016
Hostages of UNRWA.
A recent lengthy article in the New York Times Magazine described life in Shuafat, a slum located within the borders of Jerusalem but outside the security barrier that, over the past decade, has greatly reduced the ability of terrorists to strike Israel. Shuafat’s poverty stems in part from its being outside the jurisdiction of both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority and in part from its being administered by the United Nations, whose mandate is to perpetuate the suffering of its Palestinian residents. Jonathan Tobin writes:
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Login or SubscribeIf it does, a few fire trucks seem like an empty gesture.
Hostages of UNRWA.
To the clerical regime, improved relations with the West are an existential threat.
Rabbi Akiva’s laugh, the fox, and Emperor Hadrian.
For the first time in millennia.