In the recent, post-Oslo Accord years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been primarily discussed in terms of two solutions: the Two-State Solution or the One-State Solution. However, Israeli professor Dr. Mordechai Kedar proposes a unique alternative known as the Eight-State Solution or United Palestinian Emirates.
Last week, The Judean was privileged to celebrate America’s Independence Day in Jerusalem with one of the only media outlets that prides itself on presenting the facts, and one of the most iconic faces and names in fact-based journalism, Greta Van Susteren. Van Susteren, who began her career as a trial attorney and spent over a decade arguing in front of juries and appellate court judges, rose to notoriety on CNN as a legal analyst and made her mark during the O.J. Simpson trial. Despite her own personal regret over being “consumed in a Hollywood murder” one thing was apparent from the start, her focus on facts and insistence on them during interviews and when filing reports drove her Cable News career.
One interesting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been completely abandoned in recent decades due largely to the strong Islamification of the local Palestinian population; that solution was the cultural integration of Diaspora Jews and local Muslims into one united group known as Israelis. While the Muslim and early Ottoman empires who ruled the land of Israel for centuries did indeed allow for expanded non-Jewish migration into the region, according to some, many of those in today's local Palestinian communities have their roots in Judaism. Yes, there are many in the Palestinian population whose ancestors were 'Judeans' and were forcefully converted to Islam or Christianity, or just chose to do so, and the DNA surveys and analysis back this claim up. In the early years of modern Zionism, this fact held the secrets of how to prevent an endless conflict, and pursuing it further was of deep interest to many key players such as David Ben-Gurion, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and many others.
Recently, many pro-Palestinian activists on the global front have been promoting the idea of Artificial Intelligence’s connection to Israeli “Apartheid.” By claiming to both debunk and shed light on Israel’s proven success with many internationally-recognized technological advancements, including with AI, publications like “+972” and “Mondoweiss” try to reveal a false truth that vilifies this progress. This very clear attempt to spread fake news for the sake of crooked political and financial gain should have a very clear response: “Israel’s technological and scientific superiority due to years of dedication and hard-earned progress cannot be used against it, and certainly not undermined.”
In a reversal, Hamas has vehemently denied any connection to the recent rocket launch in Jenin. When the rocket was fired earlier this week, a Hamas operative took credit for the cell that launched it. However, on their official channel, Hamas as a group wrote: "We deny the responsibility for firing the rockets, and we had no coordination with any party to launch them. We will not be able to claim something that does not belong to us. We will stand behind every event that we publish on our official website."