Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Nadav Shragai

Nadav Shragai is a veteran Israeli journalist.

The common Muslim protest against Israel’s violation of the status quo is completely baseless. In fact, the opposite is true.
It appears that the Southern Branch of the Islamic Movement and the Al-Aqsa Association were major actors in the latest escalation.
The Jordanians have installed opponents of Israeli hegemony on the Temple Mount on the waqf council, the Jordanian administrative body that oversees the Temple Mount and its mosques.
Unilateral pullouts will help Saleh Arouri, deputy leader of Hamas’s political wing, and other terrorists realize their dreams.
A new Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security report lifts the lid on Palestinian activity aiming to undermine Israeli authority in eastern Jerusalem, effectively turning its Arab residents into “citizens” of Ramallah, rather than Israel.
Palestinian leader and murderer Marwan Barghouti, who is currently serving five life sentences in Israel, is a native of Kaubar, as is Omar al-Abed, who murdered Yossi, Chaya and Elad Salomon in Halamish in the summer of 2017.
The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization aids and abets the Palestinians in their ongoing campaign to take over Jewish holy sites in people’s consciousness when they failed to do so through wars, political deals or violence.
With funding and direction from Iran, Hamas has raised its flag in the Palestinian Authority capital of Ramallah, where it hopes to kill two birds with one stone: attack Israel and topple leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Palestinians are not born hating Jews. That hatred is learned, and for the Palestinians, it is vital.
Israel is not likely to accede to this request, which was made against the backdrop of the “land lease agreement crisis.”
When the Palestinians had exclusive responsibility for security in Bethlehem, Palestinian snipers sat on the rooftops, shooting at soldiers and Jewish visitors to Rachel’s Tomb.
Back in 1967, Israel made too big a concession on the Temple Mount when it agreed to prohibit Jews from praying there.