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Yisrael Medad

Yisrael Medad resides in Shiloh and is a foreign media spokesperson for the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities.

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Two States was Never Really an Option

By Yisrael Medad

It contradicts the intention of the League of Nations and makes no sense in the geopolitical reality.

Blogs

Post-Oct. 7: Lessons for American Jewry and Thoughts of Elul

By Yisrael Medad

Make an accounting is to realize that there are enemies and adversaries from without—and from within.

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Re-Reading Jabotinsky: The Left's Threat to Zionism

By Yisrael Medad

In honor of Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s 84th Yahrtzeit, 29th of Tammuz.

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They Have Tasted Blood

By Yisrael Medad

Predators disguised as “pro-Palestine” activists are on the prowl. But their prey are Jews.

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Fundamentals in Comprehending the Arab Conflict with Israel

By Yisrael Medad

A proper, adequate and assertive push-back to the Pro-Palestinian Propaganda Proponents (PPPP) must be formulated.

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Judaism as a Portable Religion

By Yisrael Medad

When Rabbi Jaffe-Gill explains Judaism and Zionism.

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The Last Hora...

By Yisrael Medad

Will this current battle be—to paraphrase Edwin O’Connor’s novel and the Spencer Tracy film—the last hora of the remnants and inheritors of Mapai/Histadrut domination that exerted its firm grip on Israel’s politics, economy, culture, academia and military for half a century?

Analysis

The Zionist Left's 100-Year War Against the Zionist Right

By Yisrael Medad

The struggle isn't over issues or even values. It's a century-old rivalry and it's over regime hegemony.

Op-Eds

A Last ‘Mapai WASP’ Grasp?

By Yisrael Medad

Protest leaders in Israel are revving up mobs by convincing them that the elected leadership of the country is a group of fascistic thugs that will turn the country into Iran or Nazi Germany.

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A Last ‘Mapai WASP’ Grasp?

By Yisrael Medad

Protest leaders in Israel are revving up mobs by convincing them that the elected leadership of the country is a group of fascistic thugs that will turn the country into Iran or Nazi Germany.

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Terrible, TERRIBLE Peter Beinart

By Yisrael Medad

He set out more than a decade ago to undermine the American Jewish establishment and serve as the prime catalyst for its desired failure.

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The Great anti-Israel Moral Meltdown

By Yisrael Medad

How did two “proud Jews” come to punish Arabs by denying them ice-cream to protest what they dislike about the Jewish state’s policy?

Op-Eds

On Rosh Chodesh, a "rabbi" Went to the Western Wall

By Yisrael Medad

… And used his immunity as a Knesset member to smuggle a Torah scroll into a Reform gathering as a favor and an act of identification.

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What Has a Map of the Khazar Empire to Do with "Palestine"?

By Yisrael Medad

An anti-Semitic canard, it has been going through yet another revival.

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When It Was Suggested Jews Buy Milking Stools

By Yisrael Medad

The Mufti would not allow Jews to place benches at the Wailing Wall...

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Belittling Jabotinsky

By Yisrael Medad

Was Jabotinsky a great admirer of Polish Nationalism? Really?

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Beinart Reached his Yavne

By Yisrael Medad

As a writer, he has been twisting ideas, terms and concepts so as to confound and discombobulate a younger generation of Jews. But he may have reached an impasse.

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No Four Years, Mr. Trump!

By Yisrael Medad

There is a way out. True, the Arab side over decades has never really been pressured, pressured the way Israel has. The time has come for Abbas and Co. to feel the diplomatic heat.

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Hanukah Geography

By Yisrael Medad

If we apply contemporary terms, the main site of the miracle we celebrate by lighting candles for eight days, Temple. is now in... "occupied East Jerusalem". What we need is a linguistic revolt, especially among Jews.

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A Rabbi who Thinks anti-Jewish Violence isn’t anti-Semitic

By Yisrael Medad

She seems to be delving into hair-splitting definitions in order to keep the focus primarily on only one source of anti-Semitism.

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The New York Times Goes Cockamamie

By Yisrael Medad

{Originally posted to the author's website} Only in the New York Times would one find such a cockamamie* defense of anti-Semitism ...critics have complained that such a policy could be used to stifle free speech and legitimate opposition to Israel’s policies toward Palestinians in the name of fighting anti-Semitism++. The definition of anti-Semitism to be […]

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Reform's Rabbi Jacobs, Eretz Yisrael and the Reformatting of Reform Judaism

By Yisrael Medad

The Midrash makes it clear that the Bible specifically notes land purchases and transactions, so that nations can never castigate the Jewish people and say, “You are occupying stolen territory.”

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Readers: Can You Help Us Find This Rabbi?

By Yisrael Medad

Murdered in Jerusalem, in 1920, please help us find out more about Rabbi Yehudah Leib Lozovsky.

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Jabotinsky, Jerusalem, Jewish Defense, 1920

By Yisrael Medad

A century of terror, courtesy of our Arab neighbors.

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In the Name of her Grandmother …

By Yisrael Medad

Rep. Rashida Tlaib could have visited her 90-year-old grandmother and after leaving continued to excoriate Israel. But no, she had to use her as an extra in her guerrilla theater production.

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The Territoriality of the Balfour Declaration

By Yisrael Medad

Zionism has been yielding territory since 1919

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"From the Breasts of the Youth": Poland 1922

By Yisrael Medad

Jews were always "aliens" in Poland. No matter what other charge Polish nationalists make, justified or not,... at the end, Jews were not real citizens

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No Protection for Jewish Holy Sites?

By Yisrael Medad

Only Israel can be trusted to guard Israel's Jewish sites.

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It's Gelt. It's Gold. It's Chanukah

By Yisrael Medad

{Originally posted to the author's blog} As received from the Israel Antiquities Authority: Hanukkah Gelt: A cache of rare gold coins and a 900 year old gold earring were discovered at the port of Caesarea. ..."The cache is a silent testimony to one of the most dramatic events in the history of Caesarea -- the […]

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Jordan, Part of Palestine

By Yisrael Medad

Any resolution of the so-called "Palestinian Arab problem" need include in its geographical elements the participation of Jordan.

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An Exercise in Deconstruction

By Yisrael Medad

"Roses are red; wiolets are blue; Israel should not be home to a single Jew"

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On The Voices Denying An "Arab Palestinian People"

By Yisrael Medad

To all of you, know that if anything, today you’ve pushed me away, further, and you've made my case for me. You are the problem

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Dealing with IfNotNow's "Facts"

By Yisrael Medad

Supposed 'facts' of IfNotNow. The question is, 'When' will they tell the truth?

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Abbas Unhinged and Identity Theft

By Yisrael Medad

Abbas never fails to amaze with his alternative theories to reality.

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Being Religious and a NYT Letter to the Editor

By Yisrael Medad

Fifth, is it "profanity" in naming a train station after President Trump? Truly? Of course, if it is Trump himself that bothers you, rather than naming the station after a person, a non-Jew, then we are left with a political dispute.

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Childish Congresswoman

By Yisrael Medad

Minnesota congresswoman Betty McCollum, has introduced a bill that seeks to prevent the United States from funding Israel’s military detention of Palestinian children. The law defines 'child' as anyone 18 or younger

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Hillel At Princeton: On the Roof?

By Yisrael Medad

Someone get them a ladder over at Princeton's Hillel.

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Balfour Bluster

By Yisrael Medad

As the Balfour centennial approaches, the Jewish Press Online will be posting relevant articles, blogs and op-eds. Here is a brief blog from Yisrael Medad taking apart a statement from an Arab, former member of Israel's Knesset.

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I Reject the Conspiracy Theories Concerning Ambassador Daniel Shapiro

By Yisrael Medad

Despite the the constant interference former Amb. Daniel Shapiro provides it is outrageous to believe he is intent on sabotaging Trump's initiatives in Israel.

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Conservation in Judea and Samaria, Too?

By Yisrael Medad

We'd like the State Department to please clarify exactly how Solomon's Pools -- built by a Jewish king to service the Jewish Temple in the Jewish city of Jerusalem at a point in history approximately 2,000 years prior to Arab Palestinians -- could possibly be considered any part of a "Palestinian heritage.

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What's in a Name - A Fictional Story

By Yisrael Medad

Let's remember, Judea and Samaria legitimate terms; "West Bank" is an artificial geo-political name, created in April 1950 when Jordan annexed Judea and Samaria and incorporated it in his kingdom--ILLEGALLY

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A 'New Settlement'? "New"? Really?

By Yisrael Medad

You thought UNESCO was bad for Jewish history and national identity? Think again. And think about Peace Now.

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Rabbi Cosgrove's Educational Message

By Yisrael Medad

In reference to Israel, Rabbi Cosgrove threatened, "that country will have to learn to fend for itself."

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It Was More Than 100 Years of Anti-Semitism at the State Department

By Yisrael Medad

For more than a century, the US State Department has been an opponent, not an ally of Israel and Zionism.

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Beinart's Buffonery

By Yisrael Medad

{Originally posted to the blogger's website, My Right Word} Peter Beinart came to Hebron. He came to demonstrate against the "occupation". The real story, however, is here. In short, he and his friends -  squatted on property an Arab claims is his (but it isn't and that's another part of the so-called 'occupation' tale) - […]

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US Jerusalem Consulate Avoids My Query

By Yisrael Medad

The US Jerusalem Consulate's Facebook page makes no mention of the murder, and subsequent State Department condemnation, of Hallel Yaffa Ariel, who also holds US citizenship

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What Yair Golan Intended to Say

By Yisrael Medad

Golan MEANT to say, "The time has come for the Palestinians to stop trying to be like the Nazis "

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Boycotting Zionism Since 1931

By Yisrael Medad

The Arab Boycott of Israel dates back long before the formation of the State in 1948

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Egalitarian Jews and Islamist Fanaticsm

By Yisrael Medad

The "Price" for a share of the Western Wall.

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American Yeshiva Students Murdered in Israel - 1929

By Yisrael Medad

The tragic events of 2015 are not a new phenomenon; the tragedies of 1929 bear a chilling similarity

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NY Times "Dig" Contra the Temple Mount

By Yisrael Medad

Agenda driven pseudo-science by NY Times reporter Gladstone doesn't withstand any authentic scrutiny

InDepth

The Sound of A Hollow Trumpet

By Yisrael Medad

An overall comparison? Our moral & ethical standards are much higher than our Palestinian neighbors.

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Psaki Gets Pressured

By Yisrael Medad

The answers could make you "puke."

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State's Psaki Avoids It: Terror

By Yisrael Medad

MS. PSAKI: He asked me if we thought he (molotov-cocktail throwing Arab-US citizen was a terrorist, and I said no.

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A Tale of Two Speeches

By Yisrael Medad

There was a problem: A different speech, in part, was delivered on September 27

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John Kerry's "Ceasefire" (It Was A Failure)

By Yisrael Medad

" the Americans mistakenly led Israel to believe that Hamas accepted an unconditional 72-hour cease-fire "

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Shindler's Listless Op-Ed in the NYT

By Yisrael Medad

If anyone can claim that what Prof. Shindler asserted and what Netanyahu said are similar, I guess there is something wrong with their reading glasses.

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Jerusalem Between Israel, Washington and the 'West Bank'

By Yisrael Medad

The U.S. recognizes the "West Bank" as having "sovereignty" for passport purposes, but not Israel?

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About That Poll of Palestinian Arabs Favoring Peaceful Solution

By Yisrael Medad

Polls relied on to "prove" Palestinian Arabs want peaceful solution were anomalous and incomplete.

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Obama Goes Aggressive

By Yisrael Medad

Obama is stuck in his box, unable to consider options that might actually work.

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When Seven Settlements Came to an End

By Yisrael Medad

The entire Templer community of seven settlements across Palestinewas deported.

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The Results of America Taking Care of Security

By Yisrael Medad

Does Israel really need the US to care for our security?

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Who Called Whom a 'Dog'?

By Yisrael Medad

If that Israeli wasn't in "occupied territory", would he still be a "dog" in Hamdallah's perception?

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Danny Seidmann Is Rocked (Updated)

By Yisrael Medad

He is an ideological and political rival and yes, seeks my removal from Shiloh.

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A Drought? Like in a Famine?

By Yisrael Medad

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine...

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How Important Is the WOW Issue?

By Yisrael Medad

Well, 75 minutes is a lot, actually.

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Was Pal. Terrorist American-Trained?

By Yisrael Medad

Too many Pal. policemen have used their weapons to kill Jews.

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Tzachi Hanegbi Flirting with J Street

By Yisrael Medad

He based his decision on reading their web site? That's too hard to accept or respect.

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How Does Palestinianism Disinventivity Work?

By Yisrael Medad

The foundation stressed the fraud campaigns that are led by Israeli archaeologists.

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Low-Intensity Conflict Report #83 August 2013

By Yisrael Medad

This is a partial report based on the intelligence we received from the field.

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Settlers Beware: New Hostile Film Shoot in your Midst this Summer

By Yisrael Medad

"The Settlers is a documentary feature exploring the Israeli settlement-enterprise in the West Bank."

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Reuters and Jewish Facts, Don't Get Me Started

By Yisrael Medad

Don't trust Reuters for correct and balanced news.

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The Temple Mount TV Report

By Yisrael Medad

At minute 2:30, follow the exchange between Rabbi Yehuda Glick and two other fellows on Temple Mount.

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Will England Apologize for Rubowitz's Murder by British Police?

By Yisrael Medad

Farran struck him repeatedly on the head with a rock, causing his death.

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This Stinks

By Yisrael Medad

Many streams in Judea and Samaria have turned into channels for crude industrial waste characterized by a high concentration of pollutants.

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Who's Denying Whose Heritage?

By Yisrael Medad

The entire Land of Israel, have been the subject of incessant Islamic reinvention.

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First Jordan, Now Egypt's Turn to Butt-in on Temple Mount

By Yisrael Medad

The Egyptian ambassador warned against allowing Jews to pray at the Temple Mount even under a time-share system.

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A Response to the Demographic Argument in 1971

By Yisrael Medad

Shmuel Katz and a former Mapai MK Eliezer Livneh coauthored a pamphlet in 1971 arguing against the appeasement of Palestinian terrorists.

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State Department Static on Temple Mount

By Yisrael Medad

There is more than enough area on the Temple Mount to reach an accommodation for Jews who wish to pray there.

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What's Up with Netanyahu and the Temple Mount?

By Yisrael Medad

What is developing behind-the-scenes?  What secret diplomatic activity is occurring? Will there be a new 'holy basin' plan?

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Look Who Is Blockading Gaza Now

By Yisrael Medad

Is Israel wrong in its policy since we're actually targeted by mortars, shootings, rockets, missiles and underground tunnels?

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Demographics in Proportion

By Yisrael Medad

If Israel can maintain itself with an Arab minority of 20%, "Palestine" can't be a state with 17% Jews?

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Beinart Lies About the Jerusalem Light Rail

By Yisrael Medad

Peter Beinart now has the Jerusalem Light Rail, which services Arab neighborhoods, in his cross hairs.

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More Dumb and Dumbest from Chuck Hagel (Video)

By Yisrael Medad

The Emergency Committee for Israel released a new web ad highlighting Chuch Hagel's confused response about U.S. policy on Iran.

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A Nation that Stands Apart

By Yisrael Medad

The New York Times criticizes Israel for not undergoing the scrutiny of the UN Human Rights Council, while at the same time recognizes the extreme bias the Council shows against Israel.

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The Sunday Times Cartoon and the Midrash

By Yisrael Medad

According to the Midrash if the Hebrew slaves failed to produce their quota of bricks, Jewish children were plastered into the walls to fill the gaps.

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The Boundaries of Jerusalem

By Yisrael Medad

The UN conceived of Jerusalem of extending from just south of Ramallah to Bethlehem and from Motza east to almost where Maaleh Adumim is today.

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