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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.

PA religious council emphasizes ban on selling land to Jews.
If P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s condemnations of terror were sincere, he would stop paying salaries to the terrorists.
The Palestinian Authority spends 33 times more per capita on terror stipends than on health services, according to Palestinian data.
“Ramadan is not a month of laziness but rather ... a month of jihad, conquest and victory,” said the P.A.'s Supreme Shari’a judge on the first day of Ramadan.
A new survey exposes the harsh reality.
People who praise and reward terrorist murderers, simply because they murdered Jews, are not and will never be partners for peace.
The time has come for the Arab countries, UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority to stop using the Palestinian “refugees” as pawns in their scheme to destroy Israel.
The Palestinians complain of a financial crisis, but as with so many other complaints, this, too, is their own doing.
If the P.A. would only stop paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to terrorists, it could nearly double its health budget.
So why are the country’s prime minister, defense minister and finance minister mitigating the law’s impact?
PLO declarations aside, the reality is that everyone—including the Palestinians themselves—knows it is a defunct institution that lacks any real legitimacy.
While I would like to believe that those who who serve in the body established in 1981 are good people, the entire mechanism is rotten to its core.