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Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, a former IDF Director of Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, is a leading expert on Palestinian incitement and legal strategies. He currently serves as head of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch and directs the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Hirsch has also advised Israel’s Ministry of Defense and chaired an advisory committee in the Ministry of Interior. A passionate advocate for Israel, he regularly provides expert analysis in the media to expose bias and misinformation.

The Palestinian Authority’s show of solidarity over Iranian attacks ignores Arafat’s alliance with Saddam and Kuwait’s mass expulsion of Palestinians.
With people like prosecutor Karim Khan in central positions, the ICC is plunging into ever-deepening decay.
To truly “revitalize” the P.A., a two-pronged strategy must be adopted: One that would address its relations with Israel and another to manage its internal governance.
Moral clarity requires that Secretary Blinken unequivocally demand an immediate end to the P.A.’s “pay-for-slay” policy as a non-negotiable precondition to establishing any form of revitalized Palestinian entity.
Sadly, as the judges demonstrated with their shameful decision on South Africa’s claim against Israel, when it comes to the Jewish state, history, facts and the truth are just not relevant.
Since UNRWA has proven it cannot meet the requirements of the Appropriations Act, it would seem the U.S. is positively prohibited from transferring any additional aid to it.
Or does it simply hate Israel so much it is willing to use them as pawns and cannon fodder.
A deep and thorough change in the sentencing of terrorists is essential to make it clear, once and for all, that the leniency of Israel’s legal system toward terrorists has ended.
The Palestinians have done all they can to weaponize the court against Israel since 2015, submitting complaint after complaint and report after report.