Eyal Yifrah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israeli Air Force Pilots' Course Graduation Ceremony. (photo: Haim Zach / GPO)
How Netanyahu provoked this war with Gaza
His antagonism to all Palestinians – to Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority no less than to Hamas – started and steadily fueled the chain reaction that led to the current misery. On Monday of last week, June 30, Reuters ran a story that began: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas on Monday of involvement, for the…
By Larry Derfner July 9, 2014
President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas at a joint press conference in Whitehall. (flickr / Cabinet Office CC)
Why isn’t the West Bank rioting, too?
And why doesn’t anyone in Israel seem to notice this? Answer: for the same reason that the Palestinian riots started in the first place. With Palestinians protesting violently in East Jerusalem and the Israeli north, and with Palestinians in Gaza, or some of them anyway, firing rockets into Israel’s south, who are the only Palestinians…
By Larry Derfner July 6, 2014
Jewish Israelis attempt to attack a Palestinian on a bus near Tel Aviv. (Facebook screenshot)
WATCH: Israeli Jews attack Palestinian on public bus
The following video shows an incident that took place on a municipal bus in the greater Tel Aviv area (near Bnei Brak, for those who know the territory). This was a couple of days ago, shortly after the bodies of three Jewish boys who were abducted in mid-June were discovered in the West Bank. The video…
By Lisa Goldman July 4, 2014
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Israeli soldiers enter the city of Halhul, near Hebron, in a search for the three kidnapped teenagers. (photo: Activestills)
Three kidnapped Israeli teens found dead in the West Bank
Kidnappings led to the largest military operation in the West Bank since the Second Intifada. Israeli military forces on Monday located the bodies of three teenage yeshiva students who have been missing and assumed kidnapped for over two weeks. The bodies of Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel were found buried in a field near Halhoul, in…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 30, 2014
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