Matan Peleg Archives

Matan Peleg

A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

To understand Israel-hatred, follow the money

Why would NGOs, U.N. agencies and international organizations ever want to give up the filthy lucre they get for bashing Israel?

Matan Peleg

December 13, 2022

Palestinians protest outside the U.S. Consulate in eastern Jerusalem against President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Dec. 7, 2017. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

Bennett, don’t divide Jerusalem!

Until now, there has never been an Israeli prime minister who was willing to barter Jerusalem at the behest of foreign powers in exchange for political survival.

Matan Peleg

August 15, 2021

Ra'am Party leader Mansour Abbas speaks during a press conference in Nazareth on April 1, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Yes to integration; no to Mansour Abbas and self-deception

The silence of right-wingers who support forming a government with the help of the Islamic Movement is puzzling.

Matan Peleg

April 6, 2021

A Palestinian woman plants olive trees near the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach in Judea and Samaria. March 22, 2017. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Israeli land is being stolen in broad daylight

The Palestinians have learned that in order to conquer Israeli territory, it is better not to go about it through armed resistance, but through “silent” seizures, such as the planting of trees.

Matan Peleg

January 14, 2021

Germany’s “anti-Semitism czar” Felix Klein. Credit: Office of the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism.

Battling the Jewish state’s ‘BDS-from-within’ phenomenon

The demand by Israeli academics to fire Germany’s anti-Semitism czar for canceling the participation of a BDS promoter in an arts festival illustrates the urgent need for at-home legislation against such activity.

Matan Peleg

May 18, 2020

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas presides over a meeting of the Palestinian government in Ramallah on April 29, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

The two sources of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

For there to be any semblance of a chance for peace in the region, all the existing financial incentives for the Palestinian Arab leadership must be removed, and the philosophy of “mukawama” has to die.

Matan Peleg

July 7, 2019

Chaim Weizman lighting a Hanukkah menorah at the Western Wall in Rehovot in 1948. Photo by David Eldan/GPO/Wikimedia Commons.

The untold story of Hanukkah that needs to be told

As painful as it is to acknowledge, Hanukkah represents the reality of a semi-civil war among the Jews.

Matan Peleg

December 4, 2018

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