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By Paul Gherkin
The world appreciated the efforts of Wiesel, and awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for "his message ...of peace, atonement and human dignity."
By Paul Gherkin
The United Nations condemns terroristic violence everywhere, and it can find solidarity with every country in the world as it fights the heinous acts –except for Israel.
By Paul Gherkin
The Palestinians pivoted from condemning the Jews’ goal of self-determination to the libel of 'colonialization' that created “racism” and “incitement.”
By Paul Gherkin
The commandment of Shmita is not to just let the land lie fallow every seven years, but like the Sabbath, it is to remember that the land is God’s gift to the Jewish people.
By Paul Gherkin
For the NY Times, Gazan and Palestinian fears are real while Israeli fears are overblown, delusional scenarios, which the army then uses as a propaganda to conceal their over-reactions
By Paul Gherkin
In a region which has perfected finger-pointing, the Palestinian Arabs have once again shown their mastery of hypocrisy.
By Paul Gherkin
Sanders does not believe that Israel is just defending itself from terrorism, he believes that Israel is deliberately trying to kill Palestinians.
By Paul Gherkin
Sanders may claim he is a proud Jew, but he is the only candidate to attack Israel for defending itself against Palestinian Arabs
By Paul Gherkin
This Presidential Campaign shows a dangerous path of divisiveness waged by both the far-left & right
By Paul Gherkin
Jerusalem's Arab population is growing faster than its Jewish population, faster than regional Arabs
By Paul Gherkin
Barghouti is NO Mandela. He was jailed for his direct involvement in murdering Israeli civilians
By Paul Gherkin
Using “1967 lines” as the basis for borders of Israel and Palestine in a 2-state solution is absurd
By Paul Gherkin
Mladenov: The issue of (Arab) incitement runs to the heart of the current climate of tension and fear
By Paul Gherkin
{originally posted to the author's website, FirstOne Through} The New York Times is one of the country’s most venerated and most liberal newspapers. Its articles and editorials often use a pluralistic and “progressive” approach in covering events. Yet, for some reason, year after year, the paper refuses to highlight the terrorism running rampant in Africa. […]
By Paul Gherkin
J Street's antipathy to Israel is so extreme it exhorted the US to abandon Israel at UN Sec. Council
By Paul Gherkin
Peres was clear: Any Palestinian government that included Hamas did not seek peace with Israel
By Paul Gherkin
The UN Secretary-General has shown himself unfit to judge the Arab-Israel conflict squarely & fairly
By Paul Gherkin
NYC advanced a bill providing security to religious schools; Leading LGBT activists were appalled.
By Paul Gherkin
Obama supporting fanatical, anti-Semitic, America-bashing Iran isn't a recipe to “keep America safe”
By Paul Gherkin
Adalah's mission is to replace Israel as a Jewish State with a bi-national, multi-cultural state.
By Paul Gherkin
When a Jew puts on tefillin, he declares connection to both God and family tradition.
By Paul Gherkin
The UN Media Centre edits (censors) comments reporting Israelis attacked & murdered by Palestinians
By Paul Gherkin
Merkel declared there are things that must never be forgotten; To forget would reject responsibility
By Paul Gherkin
The world should stop mis-characterizing the disputed land as “Palestinian territory”
By Paul Gherkin
Proving again "Moderate" is a relative term, what kind of “peace” do Palestinian “moderates” want?
By Paul Gherkin
NYT's Cohen fails 2 of Sharansky's “3 Ds” test for anti-Semitism: Demonization and Double- standards
By Paul Gherkin
This Hanukah the world again watches evil in the MidEast as Palestinians & ISIS slaughter "infidels"
By Paul Gherkin
The emotions evident in describing terror attacks around the globe is absent if Israelis are victims
By Paul Gherkin
If the NY Times lives up to its motto "All the News That's Fit to Print," it does so hypocritically.
By Paul Gherkin
How can Rabbi Rick Jacobs advocate an anti-Semitic policy that is also directly against the bible?
By Paul Gherkin
It has been official US policy under Obama administration to embarrass, berate & belittle Netanyahu.
By Paul Gherkin
The New York Times surrounds Hamas with euphemisms and distortions
By Paul Gherkin
Palestinian poll figures show a growing support for attacking innocent Israeli civilians
By Paul Gherkin
United Nations press corps now seems to want to selectively remove Israel from its records.
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to the author's website, FirstOne Through} One of the most famous cartographers in the world was Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598). Appointed as cartographer to King Phillip II of Spain, the religious Christian Flemish cartographer is credited with creating the first world atlas called “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” or “Theatre of the World.” The atlas was […]
By Paul Gherkin
In the NY Times desire to see Abbas succeed, they turned deaf to his various statements and actions.
By Paul Gherkin
Israel supporters have historic issues with UN anti-Israel bias; We must now worry about US bias too
By Paul Gherkin
This fleeting note of concern by the UN about murdered Israeli civilians remains disappointing.
By Paul Gherkin
May the shofar sounding move us all in meaningful ways. All the best for a happy and healthy year.
By Paul Gherkin
Dem Presidential candidates pursue policies for Iran far less rigorous than they expect of Americans
By Paul Gherkin
UNRWA staff numbers 30,000, 3.5X the # for rest of the world's refugees yet serves only 13% of total
By Paul Gherkin
Despite Abbas lacking ANY authority, Kerry continues pressuring Israel to negotiate with him
By Paul Gherkin
Judaism & Islam had amazing historical finds in July; NY Times thought only 1 important-Guess which?
By Paul Gherkin
Who said Kerry won no concessions from Iran? He secured pistachios and Beluga caviar for America!
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to the author's website, FirstOne Through} Some passionate and eloquent liberals have bemoaned the state of inclusiveness among Jews today. Leon Wieseltier, editor of the New Republic penned an angry piece “J Street’s Rejection Is a Scandal” about the exclusion in 2014 of J Street from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. […]
By Paul Gherkin
The Kotel gained significance around 1550. Previously, many Jews prayed on the Temple Mount itself.
By Paul Gherkin
World capitulates to Iran on nukes; it should have remembered lessons from Syria’s nuke plant in '07
By Paul Gherkin
Photos & captions in the Times push a specific narrative: Palestinians are passive victims in Israel
By Paul Gherkin
The NYTimes wants Americans to be more fearful of terrorism from Conservatives than Muslim extremism
By Paul Gherkin
NY Times praises US killing of terrorist leaders; a different story when Israel kills the bad guys
By Paul Gherkin
The White House treats Bibi to condemnation & threats, yet showers racist Turkey with benign neglect
By Paul Gherkin
Fact: Only Israel is engaged in a "peace process"; Palestinians are in "divorce proceedings"
By Paul Gherkin
Obama's interview in The Atlantic distorted Jewish values and threatens Israel's very existence
By Paul Gherkin
In America, Jews are more than twice as likely to experience a hate crime than Blacks or Muslims
By Paul Gherkin
NY Times precious front page ink is only reserved for portrayals of Israel as the aggressor.
By Paul Gherkin
Jerusalem Day 2015 was disappointing to many due to the pope's canonization of "Palestinians."
By Paul Gherkin
Israeli & Palestinian arguments claiming Jerusalem as their capital-Only 1 argument is compelling
By Paul Gherkin
According to polls Hamas, elected in 2006, would be reelected should elections ever be held again.
By Paul Gherkin
Society’s demands for special recognition makes visiting Mom on Mother’s Day like “Where’s Waldo”
By Paul Gherkin
Israel promotes coexistence and peace, providing freedom for all religions on the Temple Mount.
By Paul Gherkin
Looking to fight supporters of terrorism? Just boycott Qatari owned Al Jazeera
By Paul Gherkin
Obama's desire to be "fair" enables Iran to get nuclear weapons which will threaten global security
By Paul Gherkin
God's 3 part promise for Israel: to the Avot; a plentiful land; the eventual return home by all Jews
By Paul Gherkin
As Holocaust survivors decline rapidly attacks on the veracity of the Holocaust rapidly escalates
By Paul Gherkin
Even embedded in society, Jews are picked out for attack for the simple reason that they are Jewish
By Paul Gherkin
Obama permitted the collapse of Egypt while establishing warmer relations with Saudi enemy Iran
By Paul Gherkin
Israel's probably the most liberal country from Western Europe to Australia and down to South Africa
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted to author's website, FirstOne Through} TRUST Trust is the bedrock of a functional relationship. It enables one party to rely on the other. A trust that includes both intention and capability permits a sharing of responsibility and workload. The relationship between US President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu started off badly and further […]
By Paul Gherkin
Israel, in too volatile a region to believe in the good faith of neighbors, knows hope is no policy
By Paul Gherkin
Obama created the "partisan politics" by asking Dem. party members to avoid Bibi and his address
By Paul Gherkin
Kristof's op-ed "The Human Stain" was flawed and wrong; more than anti-Israel, it was anti-Semitic.
By Paul Gherkin
"Je Suis..," like its famous origin 400 years ago, implies the ability & freedom to think & question
By Paul Gherkin
Believing a few “extremists” hijacked Islam is myopic in history and geography, numbers and scope
By Paul Gherkin
What do you call a little satire on "snow"? A Snow-tire,,,
By Paul Gherkin
Europe recognizing a state of Palestine should require them to take a good look at the Palestinians
By Paul Gherkin
It's disingenuous for Obama to claim a breach in protocol; he did much worse to Netanyahu in 2013
By Paul Gherkin
To Netanyahu and European Jewry, 2014-5 recalled years when Europe sought to annihilate its Jews
By Paul Gherkin
Tu B'Shvat has morphed into a chance to reflect on our connection with Israel and with nature itself
By Paul Gherkin
Obama’s foreign policy is viewed by both liberals and conservatives as deeply flawed
By Paul Gherkin
Why does the Times relay different motivations and narratives for jihadists in Europe and Israel?
By Paul Gherkin
Desperate people take what they can, seizing opportunity to advance their main goal; the Arabs don't
By Paul Gherkin
The NY Times suggestion that HaMavesar cropping women from a photo is Israeli censorship is absurd.
By Paul Gherkin
In France and most of the world, Jews do not get starring roles in the rage on behalf of victims.
By Paul Gherkin
Not all Islamic countries call for killing apostates, many criminalize the act of leaving Islam
By Paul Gherkin
Western govts are advancing laws curbing free speech to comply with Muslim Sharia Laws on blasphemy
By Paul Gherkin
Amazing how well the Arabs of the West Bank/Gaza are doing compared to Arabs in other countries
By Paul Gherkin
EU countries prematurely recognizing "Palestine" will effectively halt direct peace negotiations.
By Paul Gherkin
Peace talks were doomed because Kerry deliberately ignored the basic rule of peace negotiations
By Paul Gherkin
Dominant theme on NY Times front pages concerning Israel: "Jewish State Attacks Arab Youths"
By Paul Gherkin
Proportionately, Palestinians now kill twice as many women in honor killings as Afghanistan.
By Paul Gherkin
Obama's comments calling Israeli settlements “unhelpful”are harsher than prior US administrations'
By Paul Gherkin
The UN has more censures against Israel than all of the countries of the world combined.
By Paul Gherkin
The "1967 borders” were deliberately never declared "borders" by the warring parties
By Paul Gherkin
The term “West Bank” falsely implies a long history of Palestinian Arab rule over the area
By Paul Gherkin
Israel's last election (2013) focused more on domestic issues than foreign; 2015 will be the same.
By Paul Gherkin
A Sad and Sick SATIRE of satanic sadism
By Paul Gherkin
Contrasting its coverage of the pope's visit to Israel, the media chose to ignore problems in Turkey
By Paul Gherkin
{Originally posted on author's site, FirstOneThrough} The United Nations is inconsistent regarding its position on the “character”, “access” and “rights” of holy sites in the Holy Land across the Green Line. In 2010, UNESCO published a paper highly critical of Israel regarding its treatment of two holy places in Judea and Samaria/the West Bank: the Tomb of […]
By Paul Gherkin
Arab attacking Jews in the land date back a century, long before Israel was created or in control.
By Paul Gherkin
Cloistered captain Obama, touts his talents and has the temerity to taunt Bibi,his besieged ally
June 19, 2026 
