Things That Make Me Go Hmmmmm

• Ahead of UN statehood bid, PA civil service union announces strike over late payment of salaries. According to Maan News, the open ended strike is due to begin on Tuesday. How can the world consider Palestinian statehood when the PA can’t pay its own bills?

• Samir Quntar was injured in a Beirut explosion. The world should know what Quntar did to Smadar Haran’s family back in ’79 . . .

• Last but not least, Danny Ayalon’s video about the West Bank has been viewed more than 240,000 times and has sparked 3,000+ comments. If you’ve ever kvetched about the Israeli government flailing at PR, you gotta give Ayalon credit getting the message out there.

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

Things That Make Me Go Hmmmmm

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