Barry Shaw

Original Thinking: No going back

This article was originally published in the Jerusalem Post. You know what the one major problem would be should Israel foolishly agree to surrender territory to an aggressive new Palestinian state? There is no going back. The world will never allow Israel to reconquer any territory.

The European Parliament President's poor remarks to Israel may have a silver lining.

Israel’s Knesset erupted in chaos when the President of the European Parliament, Martin Shultz, stood at the podium and told Israel’s lawmakers that they were depriving Palestinian of water. He questioned why Israelis can use 70 liters of water while a Palestinian can only use 17. These are grossly false figures.

The peace process and the fear factor

As negotiations with the Palestinians wind down to their inconclusive ending, panic-stricken voices are being ratcheted up to agree, or not agree, a deal. The name of the game in Israel is the Fear Factor.

The lies they tell at St.James's Church, Piccadilly, London

St.James’s Church held a biased, expensive, Christmas exhibition that slandered Israel in the form of a high wall to project a false narrative that Israel’s essential security barrier was erected as a crime against Palestinian Arabs, particularly those in Bethlehem. It was, in fact, erected solely to save lives, and it achieved its aim.

CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN HIJACKED!

CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN HIJACKED TO BECOME POLITICAL WARFARE AGAINST ISRAEL. ITS ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MEANING SUCKED DRY, REPLACING A JEWISH JESUS WITH A FALSE PALESTINIAN NARRATIVE THAT DEMONISES AND DELEGITIMISES THE JEWISH STATE.

Australia's unstinting support for Israel

Three Muslims were arrested as part of a gang that attacked five Jews in the Bondi district of Sydney on October 25, 2013.

Jews under siege

We have arrived at the moment that most of us reckoned we would never see.

“Peacemakers” against peace

In a Jerusalem Post article (“Blessed are the peacemakers” June 7, 2013) Gideon D.Sylvester, the British United Synagogue rabbi in Israel, told the anecdote of two member of the Bereaved Parents Forum, an association of Israeli and Palestinian parents whose children have been killed in the conflict, who travelled to a meeting held at the British House of Lords. Their host took them aside and explained, “On this side of the room sit the Lords who back the Palestinians, and on the other side will be the friends of Israel. Now you each know your supporters and opponents,” as if they were entering into a prize fight contest. The bereaved parents were shocked. “We have set aside our grievances and have come to share ideas about uniting for peace, and you who live in the tranquility of England wish to make divisions! If you cannot help, at least don’t make matters worse.”

The real victory behind Israel’s defeat of England

The real victory behind Israel’s defeat of England in the UEFA European Under 21 Football Championships was not the 1-0 scoreline.

Good Hezbollah, bad Hezbollah

Jerusalem Post revealed that Ireland heads the European opposition in sanctioning Hezbollah ("Israel officials: Ireland leads EU opposition to blacklisting Hezbollah" 6 June). Finland and Sweden, according to the report, support the Irish position.

The missile threat against Israel and future solutions

Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, recently said that Israel is “the most threatened nation on the planet.” He was referring to the threatening ring of missiles aimed at the Jewish state from regimes such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran. Hamas actually fired 2300 rockets at Israel in 2012 alone.

The frightening stupidity of the Israeli government in our fight for our legitimacy

Is the Israeli Government with us? Or are we alone?

Soundbites from a conference—Day 3

The anticipated visit to Israel and the region by President Barack Obama is causing a buzz and curiosity in Israel. Everything from what is on the menu of his state dinners to his meeting the new Miss Israel is being covered in details.

Wolf in sheep’s clothing?

Jerusalem Post Are we seeing “humanitarian” anti-Semitism applied against Israel? That is to say, a campaign to delegitimize and eradicate Israel for being the Jewish state by creating a Palestinian nationalism in its place, a campaign that hides its anti-Semitic nature by dressing up in humanitarian clothes. Or are we seeing a campaign to destroy Israel disguised in liberal language?

European diplomacy in the service of our enemy

Original Thinking: It is prudent to quote Winston Churchill, who castigated the British political leadership with the words, “You had the choice of choosing war or dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you got war.”

Why a two-state solution will never work

Original Thinking: What will happen when you have pressured Israel into allowing a Palestinian entity to take hold on the 1967 borders, an entity that is taken over by a radical Islamic force bent on Israel’s destruction?

As opposition stiffens, US calls on Israel to pull back from settlement plan

Diplomatic crisis brewing over Israel's announced plans to construct 3000 homes in what is known as the E1 area of Judea & Samaria (West Bank) as major European governments summon Israeli ambassadors to express their concern.

Abbas at the U.N.

Mahmoud Abbas refuses to acknowledge Israel as the Jewish state since that would recognize Israel’s rights to the Land of Israel. He has repeatedly said, “I will never accept the Jewish state of Israel. Not in a thousand years.”

Tighten your safety belts, Israel!

Americans apparently overlooked four years of economic waste, and a failed foreign policy of sucking up to the Muslim world, by re-electing their president. What now?

The coincidence of the Shofar, New Year, and the fate of the Jews

Life in the Jewish State of Israel is often made up of significant and special coincidences, a meeting of separate moments in time that merge into something ethereal.