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Maurice Hirsch

IDF Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch is the director of Legal Strategies for Palestinian Media Watch. He served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps. In his last position, he served as director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.

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Headline / Perspectives / Op-Eds

Is the Palestinian Authority Using International Donor Funds to Finance ‘Pay for Slay’?

By Maurice Hirsch

With most of its primary source of revenue cut off, the question remains: How did the PLO-P.A. continue financing terror payments?

Op-Eds

The PLO-PA-Iranian Terror Alliance

By Maurice Hirsch

The October 7 massacre drew the PA and Iran closer

Op-Eds

Preparing for the Next International Court of Justice Debacle

By Maurice Hirsch

In the theatre of the absurd, commonly known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judges are again preparing to ignore history, facts, and the fundamental truth. Having weaponized the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against the Jewish state, the judges are now preparing to hear oral arguments […]

Op-Eds

A New Poll of Palestinians: Supporting Terror and Rejecting Peace

By Maurice Hirsch

Alongside the disdain for the U.S. and Western countries, the Palestinians also believe that moderate Arab countries also play a negative role.

Op-Eds

Can Israel and the Palestinian Authority Continue to Cooperate?

By Maurice Hirsch

Since 1994, Israeli governments have supported the PA The “Palestinian Authority” as one unified body has ceased to exist.

Op-Eds

What Happened to the 1947 UN Partition Plan?

By Maurice Hirsch

The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which placed that entire area under the governance of Great Britain, for the sole purpose of creating a Jewish state on all of the land.

Op-Eds

Balfour Bogeyman

By Maurice Hirsch

The preamble to the Mandate reaffirmed the Balfour Declaration and once again confirmed the historical connection of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel

Palestinian Authority / Terrorism / Headline

Sbarro Pizza Terrorists Have Received $1.4M Since 2001 Attack

By Maurice Hirsch

As a reward for the attack, the Palestinian Authority pays a total of $8,937 (NIS 27,800) each month to the five imprisoned terrorists and the families of the three dead terrorists.

Analysis

What is the “Status Quo” on the Temple Mount?

By Maurice Hirsch

NO Israeli government ever ratified Dayan’s agreement. To this day, the “status quo” on the Temple Mount is that the internal part of the site is run by the Waqf and Israel is responsible for the external security and maintaining public order. 

Op-Eds

In Every Generation...

By Maurice Hirsch

20 years after the Passover Seder Massacre - PA continues to glorify and reward the murderers

Op-Eds

Despite Serious $, PA Still Begs

By Maurice Hirsch

Financial reports released by the Palestinian Authority show that the the PA's income during the first 10 months of 2021, was the highest ever. Curiously, this fact was entirely absent from the report released by the World Bank in preparation for the meeting of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee for Palestine – an international meeting during which the PA cries about its financial woes and begs the international community to donate more and more funds. According to the PA’s financial report, the PA net income for the first 10 months of 2021 totaled 11,391,800,000 shekels. This reflected a rise of 1.798 billion shekels in comparison to 2019 and over 3 billion shekels in comparison with 2020. Over the last decade, the PA net income has gradually doubled.

Op-Eds

Whitewashing PA Terror Promotion in UN Security Council

By Maurice Hirsch

In his quarterly update to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) regarding the implementation of infamous UNSC resolution 2334, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) Tor Wennesland went out of his way to distort reality, whitewash the Palestinian Authority’s multi-million dollar terror promoting “Pay-for-Slay” policy and ignore PA incitement […]

Op-Eds / Headline

Israel's Civil Administration is failing in YESHA

By Maurice Hirsch

Despite being a branch of the Israeli Defense Ministry/Israel Defense Forces, the Civil Administration is more concerned with facilitating the creation of the "State of Palestine" than it is with ensuring the rights of the Jewish people in its ancestral homeland.

Analysis

The Systemic Failure of Israel’s Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria

By Maurice Hirsch

While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the body established in 1981 are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core.

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