Why It Matters Whether an Attack on Palestinians Is ‘Terrorism’

Definitions of the campaign vary. One 2013 tally found nearly 800 cases of suspected price-tag attacks, and 276 arrests, in an 18-month span. In 2014, Israeli security officials blamed a group of about 100 hardliners for most of the attacks.

.. The question of what to call the attacks could be important for another reason, too: money. The Israeli government compensates victims of terrorism and their families. Typically, that has been a right afforded to Israelis who are killed or injured by Palestinian attacks. But in some more recent cases, the government has opted to grant Palestinians compensation as well, as NPR’s Daniel Estrin noted last year.

After Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir was abducted and killed by three Israeli men, his family was paid.

As Chuck Schumer Goes, So Goes the Iran Deal

According to Bob Dole, either the “shortest distance” or the “most dangerous place” in Washington, D.C. “is between Chuck Schumer and a television camera.” The senior senator from New York and minority-leader-in-waiting has such a penchant for bombast that it seems noteworthy when he says something understated.

.. “If Schumer comes out and says, ‘I looked at the bill and studied its details and think it’s a good deal and will stop Iran from getting weapons,’ there will be zero hope of overriding an Obama veto,” Noah Pollak, the executive director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, told The Hill on Tuesday.

.. Before the particulars of the deal had even seen the light of day, Senator Lindsey Graham was already pushing Schumer to commit to killing the agreement. “Chuck Schumer is supposed to be the guardian of Israel. He goes around everywhere and says, ‘My name is Schumer. It means guardian of Israel,’”

A Former Israeli Ambassador Takes Aim at Obama—and American Jewry

Goldberg: You yourself write in the book that Obama has given amazing pro-Zionist speeches, that there are different moments when he’s said things about Israel that are quite meaningful.

Oren: I mentioned one of his speeches—I think at the UN in [September] 2011—which is probably one of the most Zionist speeches ever given by an American president—

Goldberg: —Right. This doesn’t come through in your op-eds. I get it, these op-eds have to have an argument, but—

Oren: —And they can’t be too subtle. You have 700 words to make a subtle argument. In that article about Obama abandoning Israel, I talk about—

 

.. what I have a problem with is Jewish journalists who say, “I’m Jewish, but I’m not those Jews.”