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  • 20 years on, PA still glorifies the perpetrators of the Passover Seder Massacre

    Lt Col Maurice Hirsch|Apr 8, 2022

    (JNS) — March 27, 2022, was the twentieth anniversary of the Passover Seder Massacre. As families sat down to Passover dinner at the Park Hotel in Netanya in northern Israel in 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated his explosive device in the dining hall, murdering 30 and wounding another 160. Every month, the Palestinian Authority spends tens of thousands of dollars to reward the bomber’s family and pay salaries to the terrorists arrested by Israel for their part in the massacre. Among the terrorists arrested for the attack are: Abb...

  • The PLO has renounced all agreements with Israel, and why it doesn't matter

    Lt Col Maurice Hirsch|Mar 18, 2022

    (JNS) — Speaking after the recent meeting of the Palestinian National Council, its deputy chairman, Ali Faisal, clarified that there is a binding Palestinian decision to “renounce… all agreements with Israel.” He added that from the point of view of the Palestinian leadership, the Palestinians “have entered a path of resistance in all its forms”—a phrase that clearly includes the use of violence and terror. “The decision of the [Palestinian] National Council was a recommendation to the [PLO] Central Council to renounce all the commitments of...

  • The systemic failure of Israel's Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria

    Lt Col Maurice Hirsch|Oct 29, 2021

    (JNS) — Each day, it becomes clearer that the Israeli Civil Administration is one of the greatest dangers to the Jewish people’s realization of the goal to resettle the Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria. Since the signing of the 1993-1995 Oslo Accords, the Civil Administration has lost its way. 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 anc...