Wishing you all a happy and fulfilling Passover/Easter

“Love the stranger, for you once were strangers.” 

Iran Threatens: We Won't Hesitate to Fire Missiles at Bahrain - Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael Segall (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) 

Iran's Hope of Ukraine Oil Windfall Fades - Tala Taslimi (Nikkei Asia-Japan) 

Pakistani Writer Imtiaz Rafi Butt On Organization Of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers Meeting: 'For The Very First Time, The Muslim World Is Deliberately Moving Closer To China, And It Is Happening Through Active Involvement Of Pakistan (MEMRI)

The PA/Fatah initiated and fueled terror wave - Maurice Hirsch (PMW)

Palestinians Vandalize Joseph's Tomb in West Bank (AP-Arab News-Saudi Arabia)

Media Spotlight On Religious Freedom In Israel Doesn’t Extend To Jailing Of Christian Pastor By Palestinian Authority (Honest Reporting)

In the Middle East, People Are Realizing Russia's Relative Weakness - Interview with Ehud Yaari (EU Reporter)

'Putin Heard My Question. His Entire Demeanor Changed:' LISTEN to Susan Glasser (Haaretz Podcast)

Biden Won't Remove Iran's Revolutionary Guard from Terror List - David Ignatius (Washington Post)

The New York Times Erases Jews (Again) - (CAMERA) 

Reuters Whitewashes Palestinian Terrorism - David Harsanyi (National Review)

Zahra Billoo's Antisemitism Unleashed with CAIR's Backing (IPT)

On campus

A Remarkable Outbreak of Antisemitism at NYU Law School (Reason)

Protesters Who Sing Hamas Slogans Are "Not Anti-Semitic," University Decides - India McTaggart (Telegraph-UK)

BREAKING: BDS-Aligned Referendum Fails To Win Majority Support - (The Princeton Tory) 

University of Illinois Kills Student BDS Bill - Aaron Bandler (Los Angeles Jewish Journal)

Outrage of the weekend:  False Equivalence: MSNBC Journalist Ali Velshi Compares Israel to Communist China, Assad’s Syria & Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule  Like most people, Velshi probably never learned about the historical presence of Jews as a sovereign people in the Middle East or why the Jewish population in the land diminished. The result of these omissions is that people falsely think that Arabs, not Jews, are indigenous to the land of Israel. Also, most people are not aware that the name of historical Judea was changed by the Romans to Palestina and that there was no ancient land called “Palestine.” The result is that students falsely believe that Israel is “occupying Palestinian land” to which it has no claim.

No strikes in Afghanistan since U.S. withdrawal, Pentagon leaders confirm (Defense News)

Arabs Express Disappointment and Frustration with U.S. Middle East Policy - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) See also, Absolute Power in The Atlantic

House Democrats Sound Alarm on Potential Iran Nuclear Deal - Jordan Williams  (The Hill)

IDF: At Least 10 Terror Attacks Foiled in Past Two Weeks - Emanuel Fabian (Times of Israel)

Israel Donates Water Filtration Systems to Typhoon-Stricken Philippines (Manila Times-Philippines)

Hezbollah’s Turning Point Came in 1992 (National Interest) 

The New U.S. Plan to Stabilize Conflicts: The Case of Libya (USIP)

Statement from Simon Wiesenthal Center after another senseless terror attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday. 

“More innocents have been killed by an Arab terrorist in Tel Aviv. Israel must do whatever and wherever it takes to root out these terrorists, and the US must back its ally,” stated SWC Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action Agenda, Rabbi Abraham Cooper. “During Ramadan, we await a response from Muslim faith leaders condemning this butchery of Jews.”

Fatah Celebrates Terror Attack In Central Tel Aviv (MEMRI)

20 years on, PA still glorifies the perpetrators of the Passover Seder Massacre (JNS)

Opinion Shapers In Qatar Praise Israel Terror Attacks And Their Perpetrators (MEMRI)

Attack in east Syria injures 2 US-led coalition members (AP)

Israeli Ex-Commandos Secretly Train Ukrainians (Times of Israel)

Jordanian King Abdullah’s Role in Jerusalem: Mediator or Menace? (Honest Reporting)

Morocco, Israel Discuss Cooperation on Military Intelligence - Jihane Rahhou (Morocco World News)

Palestinians Glorify Bnei Brak Terror Attack (MEMRI)  Processions were held and locals handed out sweets. 

Terrorist Who Led Murder of 37 Is Palestinian ‘Legend That Never Dies’ (The Algemeiner)

Poll: 73% of Palestinians Want Abbas to Step Down - Dr. Khalil Shikaki (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)

See also: https://palwatch.org/page/30883

Why does the US insist Israel has a partner for peace in the PA? PMW provided this timeline:

February: The PA, including Abbas, repeatedly calls for terror 

March 1- 21: PA glorifies terrorists who died in terror attacks  

March 22: Terrorist murders 4 in Be’er Sheva, PA openly praises him as “Martyr” 

March 27: Terrorist murders 2 in Hadera, PA is silent 

March 29: Terrorist murders 5 in Bnei Brak, Abbas forced to issue lame condemnation

March 29: Stressing affiliation with Fatah, Fatah’s Nablus branch praised the murder as “the symbol of heroism and self-sacrifice”

Erdogan's Political Changes Rile Islamists (IPT)

The U.N. Human Rights Council is planning to violate its own impartiality rules by appointing a new investigator on Palestinian human rights who exults in calling Israel an “apartheid” state and repeatedly compares the Palestinian situation to the Nazi Holocaust, according to a new report by UN Watch.

Senators urge US to halt UN probe into alleged war crimes during Gaza bombing (Middle East Eye) Sixty-eight senators signed a letter sent to Biden administration saying UN investigation is part of 'continuing bias against Israel'

UN Wants References to Jerusalem as Capital Removed from Exhibit on Knesset (Times of Israel)

After AP Story, Bnei Brak Slaughter Kills Palestine-Ukraine Analogy (CAMERA)

NYT, WaPo, CNN Cite Abbas’ Terror Condemnation, but Omit Attacker’s Links to Palestinian ‘Prez’ (Honest Reporting VIDEO