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By Paul Gherkin
This relationship cannot yield peace with the current Arab mindset, only a bitter divorce with two parties forever fighting over children who will never grow older.
By Paul Gherkin
May 2019: Outright lies and inversion of facts took a curious turn. Instead of only manufacturing a narrative that Palestinian Arabs are victims of Jewish aggression and racism, a new voice directed the message that Palestinians were the saviors of Jews.
By Paul Gherkin
The horrible anti-Israel bias of the NY Times has been going on for roughly a decade however, one cannot help but marvel at the entirely new expressions concocted at the paper to excuse the Palestinian war crimes.
By Paul Gherkin
The sentiments were that destruction of these particular Christian houses of worship were an affront to people of all faiths, not just Christians. If only the Jews in Jerusalem could get an iota of those sentiments.
By Paul Gherkin
Fellow Democrats have tried to rush to her defense that she's relatively new at politics. It is worth reminding them that so was Donald Trump,
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to the FirstOne Through website} While the Israelis went to the polls again to elect their government in a democratic process, the Palestinian Arabs could only watch with envy. They have not held an election since 2006, when they elected the terrorist group Hamas to 58% of Parliament. They last got to vote […]
By Paul Gherkin
NY Times: Fourteen paragraphs about Israelis being racists. Not Muslims.
By Paul Gherkin
While there was certainly some benefit politically to Netanyahu for the gesture, the rationale for Israel’s control of the plateau is definitely about security. But the arguments applied to the Golan are relatively weak compared to all of the reasons Israel should have sovereignty over the “West Bank.”
By Paul Gherkin
As AIPAC kicks off its 2019 conference in Washington, D.C., it is worth reviewing some basic statistics about this pro-Israel lobbying group.
By Paul Gherkin
The number 25,000 is both random and round. Yet it serves as a powerful marker of the Jewish population in cities and countries around the world; which are growing and which are disappearing.
By Paul Gherkin
When an Israeli commits an attack, Mladenov demands that the perpetrator be brought to justice, however, when a Palestinian commits the attack, all Mladenov can muster is a generic condemnation of terror.
By Paul Gherkin
In what world can anyone seriously consider the reports of an organization that believes that Israel and the United States are worse human rights abusers than Syria and Saudi Arabia?
By Paul Gherkin
There is a gap in the Jewish people, just as there was thousands of years ago: there are those that believe in traditional rabbinic Judaism and those that reject it. There are those that seek to slander and malign fellow Jews to the world and those that condemn such actions.
By Paul Gherkin
The real “symbol of the conflict” is a slaughtered Jewish feminist peace activist by Palestinian Arabs who infiltrated Israel.
By Paul Gherkin
Over the past few decades, the Arab and Muslim world have been very active in denying and recasting Jewish history.
By Paul Gherkin
The viral racism in Palestinian Arab society seems to have no limits.
By Paul Gherkin
According to Sweden, Palestinians are protesting peacefully, so by definition, Israel is using disproportionate force
By Paul Gherkin
On November 12, 2018, the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza fired over 400 rockets into various populations centers in Israel. Buses, roads and homes were hit, killing and injuring people trying to manage their lives.
By Paul Gherkin
Two of the alarming extremist views held by the Democratic Socialists are their desires to destroy America’s free market economy and to destroy the Jewish State of Israel.
By Paul Gherkin
The New York Times coverage stood in sharp contrast to other news sites like Reuters, which clearly laid out the evil anti-Semitism in the murderer and wrote that the killer was anti-Trump.
By Paul Gherkin
The U.S. opened the embassy in May 2018, and just announced plans to fold the services of the U.S. consulate into the new embassy building, closing the current consulate location.
By Paul Gherkin
So-fer, so good; a creative idea to increase shalom amongst Jews through Torah
By Paul Gherkin
It is unclear whether Ari was targeted for attack because of his zealous pro-Zionist views, or whether he was yet another Jew killed by an Arab for the simple reason that he was a Jew
By Paul Gherkin
UNRWA is a deeply flawed organization and has been so for decades. It has been an embarrassment that the US has done so little to reform the organization over the past decade and that liberal media still cannot accurately report on the agency’s corruption and failings.
By Paul Gherkin
It is remarkable to witness how Obama's tenure was so pro-Palestinian, that people have forgotten that the Democratic Party also was against the “Right of Return” before he took office.
By Paul Gherkin
If groups like J Street and NIF, and Jewish leaderswant to be included in the pro-Israel community, they must learn a simple lesson: if you have an issue, bring it up with directly with the party in charge. In public, sing the praises loudly to all.
By Paul Gherkin
The world is much worse off for not electing John McCain a decade ago.
By Paul Gherkin
Many countries – including the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and Israel – deny both citizenship and visitation rights to people who are deemed to be not conducive to the public good / promoters of harm.
By Paul Gherkin
In 2018, the State of Israel declared itself the Nation-State of the Jewish people. The public declaration has been made. The Jew is out of the closet. Deal with your anti-Semitism if you want to live next to Israel, and strike treaties and do business with the Jewish State.
By Paul Gherkin
The few protests by Israeli Druze are sparked by the knowledge that the Jewish left and European funded-NGOs will embrace its cause and fight side-by-side in the streets. In the Jewish State there is a left-wing army that is willing to join their protests in a manner that never existed before.
By Paul Gherkin
Democratic governments like the US and Israel, with a finite term, must seek re-election from its citizens is vulnerable to having a short stint in office. Its “present” is fleeting. However, dictatorship, like EVERY Arab and Muslim nation, has no set term limit of being in office or caring much about the opinions of its populace. Its “present” might extend for decades.
By Paul Gherkin
An essential breakdown of the necessary to understand the 'controversial' new Basic Law called “The Nation-State of the Jewish People,”
By Paul Gherkin
According to the UN, in the unique case of Israel, where there is smoke evidently there is no fire.
By Paul Gherkin
To celebrate this great country’s Independence Day, I will leave the Democratic Party which now more closely resembles the alt-left Green Party and Working Families Party then the Democratic Party of 20 years ago. Join me in saying goodbye.
By Paul Gherkin
Neither Jordan nor Egypt have laws that forbid the sale of land to Jews nor have they made statements that Jews are unwelcome in their respective countries. Meanwhile Palestinians neither permit the sale nor permit the presence of Jews.
By Paul Gherkin
Discrimination still exists in Jerusalem and it is practiced against the Jews of the city.
By Paul Gherkin
Times Whitewashes Motivation of Palestinian Assassin of Robert Kennedy
By Paul Gherkin
According to the polls, Palestinians are indeed fed up with their leadership, but more with Abbas than Hamas. That sentiment is more pronounced in Gaza (81%) than the West Bank (62%).
By Paul Gherkin
Palestinian Arabs have been given tacit approval to attack Israel for decades by the United Nations. Therefore shouldn't the UN cover the bill for the damage to Israel's security fence in violation of Israel’s sovereignty?
By Paul Gherkin
Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Middle East reporting seems to never be shy at demonstrating his complete ignorance, his willful naivete, and racist views on the region.
By Paul Gherkin
Pro-Palestinian organizations like Al Jazeera (Qatar) and Press TV (Iran) have produced videos related to the Gaza border protest regarding Palestinian rights, providing few actual facts, proving the claim of a Palestinian “Great March of Return” is a sham.
By Paul Gherkin
Natalie Portman should read this...
By Paul Gherkin
The NY Time’s coined quite a phrase:“diplomatic settler.” It’s also completely nonsensical. U.S. ambassadors are U.S. citizens, not Israeli. How can an American be a settler? Simply by being Jewish?
By Paul Gherkin
The New York Times: All the LIES that are fit to print.
By Paul Gherkin
Haley understood that the pathway to an enduring peace lies with balanced pressure coupled with the ability to take a patient long-term approach, just as Robert Aumann’s lifetime of game-theory research demonstrated.
By Paul Gherkin
The terrorist argued that the softening of support for Israel, through social media attacks,would make it easier to attack Israel’s “vulnerable underbelly,… its investments, its diaspora and its representations around the world.“
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to the author's blog, FIrstOne Through} It has been often reviewed how the United Nations has manufactured Palestinian Arab “refugees.” The fabrication done at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has been via: calling someone a “refugee” when they left a home or town, […]
By Paul Gherkin
The divide in the narrative of the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian communities can be summarized in one city, and it’s not Jerusalem. It’s Hebron.
By Paul Gherkin
The reality is that the group that suffers the most hate crimes is not blacks, Muslims, women or gays, it is Jews. Year-in and year-out. And no one speaks up for them at these marches.
By Paul Gherkin
Abbas’s stupidity knows no bounds. He claimed that Palestinian Arabs have been living in the holy land for the past 6000 years.That’s pretty impressive for a group that didn’t arrive in the land of Israel until about 1400 years ago, even by the admission of Arabs themselves.
By Paul Gherkin
In truth, the relationship between various progressive branches of Judaism and the Jewish State have been terrible for a long time. A number of Jewish organizations actively seek to harm Israel in public fora.
By Paul Gherkin
One is left to wonder, where does the New York Times get its information?
By Paul Gherkin
The Iranian government has found new Jewish friends willing to publicly undermine Israel. And for Iran, these Jews have the added value of looking like hippy college professors as opposed to the black hat Neturei Karta rabbis.
By Paul Gherkin
The pro-Israel tent should allow people with different voices, but not those that seek to use external pressure to harm the Jewish State.
By Paul Gherkin
Curiously, while journalists attempted to connect the Holocaust of Europe's Jews to the plight of Muslim refugees from the Mid East today, they declined to ever mention the restrictive British White Paper of 1939 when discussing the “Muslim ban.”
By Paul Gherkin
Despite the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Conference much of the world refuses to recognize Jewish history in the land or believes Jews should have the rights to worship at their holiest sites
By Paul Gherkin
Politicians and media sources recently argued that only right-wing racist calls to violence should be illegal. Free speech has NOTHING to do with political views and everything to do with safety.
By Paul Gherkin
Their essence remained a problem. They would sing no song, carry no flag, and represent no people. In 2017. In the United Arab Emirates Judo competition; On the Jewish Temple Mount in the Jerusalem.
By Paul Gherkin
Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process praises Abbas’ condemnation of Palestinian terrorist attack which killed Israelis, but makes no mention of Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders that repeatedly called for calm after the murders.
By Paul Gherkin
May we be forgiven for these and all our mistakes and sins...
By Paul Gherkin
Why didn’t Kristof care to write such an article when Barack Obama was president supporting the Saudis in their campaign? Is his newfound concern simply because it would show President Trump in a bad light?
By Paul Gherkin
Palestinian Arabs coined the term “Nakba” (catastrophe) for the founding of the Jewish State on a fraction of the Palestine Mandate on May 15, 1948. However, the original Nakba happened 26 years earlier, when the British gutted the essence of international law set out in the Palestine Mandate
By Paul Gherkin
Racism has always existed in America; it is not new in the age of Trump. White racism has actually been on the decline for several years according to FBI reports, and is much less common in the South than liberal northern states like Massachusetts.
By Paul Gherkin
The mainstream media has used the Charlottesville incident to foster a narrative that has been building for the past two years: that racism is principally a Southern state, white-male issue. But is it?
By Paul Gherkin
The new UN Secretary General Antonio Gutteres, following in the execrable footsteps of his predecessor, has become part of the evil machinery that cannot see the Israeli-Arab conflict from a position of clarity and fairness
By Paul Gherkin
The Abbas Holocaust denial does not focus on the number of Jews killed. He argues that the Zionist Jews were schemers. The Holocaust was a story of Zionist Jews against European Jews.
By Paul Gherkin
In Abbas's worldview, Jews had no love or attachment to the Holy Land. They were content with where they lived; they had no connection to Palestine.
By Paul Gherkin
Father's Day in "Palestine": Consider the comments of some Palestinian Arabs about their children who murder Israelis. Shepping serious nachas
By Paul Gherkin
Jews have lived throughout the holy land for millennia, including all over Judea and Samaria. International laws facilitated the ability of Jews to move back to, and throughout, their homeland.
By Paul Gherkin
United Nations "doublespeak" translated and rendered intelligible and accurate by FirstOne Through (FOT)
By Paul Gherkin
Obama felt he could solely focus on Palestinian dignity and Israeli security. In doing so, he abused the Jewish State and facilitated a twisted “progressive” approach to Israel which denies it dignity .
By Paul Gherkin
The haters of Israel constitute a rogues gallery of ugly mugs.
By Paul Gherkin
There are two different constructive steps towards peace: 1) treat Abbas like the unpopular 'leader' he is and force him to accept the peace proposal put in front of him; or 2) let the Palestinian Arabs hold new elections
By Paul Gherkin
Leftists like the New Israel Fund rewrite the Haggadah and alter “Next Year in Jerusalem” to “Next Year in Palestine and Israel,” rejecting the centrality of God’s gifts and the role of our community
By Paul Gherkin
This year in Jerusalem is the 50th anniversary of the city's reunification; Next Year in Jerusalem for the world's Jews
By Paul Gherkin
The NY Times ran an article “Deadly Attack Near U.K. Parliament; Car Plows Victims on Westminster Bridge,” which ran over 1700 words. At no time did the article mention the words Muslim or Islamic.
By Paul Gherkin
The New York Times consistently disseminates lies or misleading information about Israel. It is one thing you can absolutely count on.
By Paul Gherkin
The International Apartheid Week began its thirteenth annual hate-fest of lying propaganda this week. It’s aim is to circle the globe with calls on college campuses to end the Jewish State.
By Paul Gherkin
In a time of greater instability and violence, Obama barely acted to provide sanctuary. But there were no protests in the streets of America to let in more refugees. Why the lack of protests?
By Paul Gherkin
Orthodox Jews only make up about 10% of the 5.3 million American Jews and are the fastest growing denomination by far and overwhelmingly support the Republican Party.
By Paul Gherkin
Ellison, who is running to be the new chair of the Democratic National Committee was amongst the minority of Democrats who voted against the effort to condemn the UN censure of Israel. Not surprising
By Paul Gherkin
FirstOneThrough, despite fewer posts in 2016, saw its number of visitors jump by 35% Facebook, The Jewish Press and Twitter were key reasons
By Paul Gherkin
The NY Times coverage of world affairs follows a familiar pattern: Christians and Jews do suffer, but hardly as much as Muslims and people of color, and their reporting reflects this view.
By Paul Gherkin
Carter’s adoration of Hamas, underlines his insanity. He imagines and hopes for a world that doesn’t exist, and makes suggestions that are dangerous for civil society.
By Paul Gherkin
At the UN, the “Question of Palestine” ceased to be a territorial dispute, and became an ethical question for the United Nations: should the global body have created and voted for the Jewish State?
By Paul Gherkin
Days after the election, Clinton supporters took the streets and – despite the obvious facts – declared that the democratically elected Trump was not their president.
By Paul Gherkin
The United States has a long history of terrible voter turnout. It is not that people are apathetic about the outcomes of elections; they just realize that their votes do not matter.
By Paul Gherkin
As Clinton and Obama trash “deplorable” Trump supporters, they should consider their own tainted houses, in which some of the world's worst deplorables gave them direct financial/political support
By Paul Gherkin
Liberals paint all white men in a monolithic camp, even though they are actually the only demographic that doesn’t have a knee-jerk reaction to vote in a simplified and unified manner.
By Paul Gherkin
According to the NY Times, Jews simply left the MENA. Nowhere in the article does it mention Mizrachi Jews suffered persecution by the Muslim nations, only by elitist Ashkenazi Jews from Israel.
By Paul Gherkin
Remarkably hypocritical for liberal groups to fight foreign governments from publicizing emails that Dems actually wrote, while supporting their efforts to ACTIVELY operate inside Israel anonymously.
By Paul Gherkin
It is well past time to boycott Al Jazeera and its social media site AJ+. Distorting history is just part of the problem. Incitement must have consequences.
By Paul Gherkin
The notion that Jews living in houses they have every legal and moral right to live in proves Obama’s belief of a “permanent occupation of Palestinian land” is false and arguably anti-Semitic
By Paul Gherkin
The US and UN have no time or interest for Israelis stating simple truths about ethnic cleansing. If you want the world's applause, you'd best be served by denying facts as the Palestinian Arabs do.
By Paul Gherkin
Bloomberg declared that this election was not about love, but getting the job done. By a professional with a rate card. Pay-for-play is the Democrats way.
By Paul Gherkin
Arabs objected to the memorial of the Israeli athletes slain at the Munich Olympics, just as they refuse to recognize Israel, refuse to compete against Israeli athletes or even ride on a bus with them
By Paul Gherkin
The pantheon of patriots perception of the President.
By Paul Gherkin
If only Jewish Democratic leaders had an Iota of Pride in Being Jewish as they have for the gay community.
July 24, 2026 
