Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy Director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
His books, available on Amazon, include:
To any dispassionate observer of the Middle East, it is crystal clear that a so-called “Two-State Solution” between a once-compliant, democratic, Israel and the violent, rejectionist, two-headed Palestinian hydra is impossible. [Barry Shaw]
Ahead of the Trump peace plan, some hard truths Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle East, USABoth Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have made US military aid to Israel a cornerstone policy on their competing campaign trails. Detractors of Israel like to jump on the figure of $3.8 Billion (2019) that the United States gives to Israel for its military defense. What they do not take into consideration are three important factors that make the US-Israel defense relationship truly unique. [Barry Shaw]
U.S. receives large returns on Israel investment Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle East, USAIn a chilling message about the future of Britain, the University College Union in Britain sent out an email to all their groups informing them of the Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 commemorations next year. What is chilling is the fact that they listed trade unions, Roma gypsies, gays and lesbians, black people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, as the named victims of the Holocaust.
But thaey “forgot” to mention Jews!! (To read more, please click on headline.)
Jews excluded from British Holocaust commemoration Read More »
Barry Shaw, International, Jewish HistoryThe plot is afoot. A leader is about to be toppled. Suddenly. Instantly. To go from the world stage to serve in sad opposition alongside Arabs he did not trust and religious Jews he falsely claimed to represent.
Is this the tragic political end of Benjamin Netanyahu? Truly a man who could hold his own among world leaders. Brought down by hubris, now seeing himself with two sad choices. To sit with the losers. Or to see his day in court. Power seems to have been grabbed from his hand with shocking suddenness.
Netanyahu’s end? A Shakespearean tragedy Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastLikud is unable to form a right-wing government. The lack of mandates earned by the smaller right-wing and religious parties prevent that option without Liberman, and Liberman made issues with the religious parties part of his electioneering platform. So no right-religious deal is possible without the heavy Liberman climbing down from his political tree.
Gantz is unable to form a center-left coalition even with the Arab party without Liberman because Liberman has said he will not sit in any government with the current Arab politicians, most of whom he sees as anti-Israel antagonists and not part of the Israeli consensus.
Israel’s post- election battle of egos Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Abu Safiyeh, is a representative of the PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the Gaza Strip. He was arrested after he published a Facebook post criticizing Hamas’s corruption. Here are some of the things he wrote that got him thrown into Palestinian prison by Hamas:
Critique of Hamas lands PFLP member in jail Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The new radical force in American politics has come to be represented by what is called “The Squad, ”four new and radical Democratic congresswomen who have used their gender and their ethnicity as a battering ram to force themselves and their radical policies to the center of their party.
Campus radicals churning out radical U.S. politicians Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Zionism is Jewish intersectionality and genuine progressivism. It is the diversity of the incoming, the answer to three millennium of Jewish victimhood. It is where left and right, black, white and brown, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, religious and secular, intersect, come together in defense of our self preservation, to celebrate
A Zionist defines Zionism Read More »
Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — What was so special about this Yom Ha’Azmaut (Israel’s Independence Day), coming so quickly after 700 enemy rockets? What is Independence Day if not part of Jewish history? But why is Jewish history different from other nations’ histories? If history is a list of chronological facts and information, our
The importance of Yom Ha’ atzma’ ut Read More »
Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Accuracy is essential when reporting claims of Palestinian casualties during Palestinian-induced wars. But accuracy is always the missing ingredient in the mainstream media when covering Palestinian wars against Israel. Instead they offer bland reporting damaging to Israel with such recent examples as a story about 20 Palestinian killed in
Sloppy media become Hamas mouth pieces Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel –Tuvia Tenenbom is a film-maker and best-selling author. He writes a series of books about the contemporary global pathology against Jews. His book ‘Catch the Jew’ highlights the anti-semitism behind the often faux support for the Palestinian cause. This echoes the research I have done for my own book, ‘Fighting
Jew- hatred in Ireland basis of support for P.A., Gaza Read More »
Barry Shaw, International, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Nancy Pelosi tried to offset the storm of criticism against new Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s succession of anti-Semitic remarks by claiming “I don’t think Ilhan Omar is Anti-Semitic. She has a different experience in her use of words, and she doesn’t understand that some of them are fraught with
OpEd: On Ilhan Omar’s ‘different experience’ Read More »
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By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel –There is an expression that people can be identified by the company they keep. Rashida Tlaib was elected to the House of Representatives in a district with a constituency whose culture and issues she shares and now projects within the United States Congress. She celebrated her arrival into the American
The company Rashida Tlaib keeps Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Benny Ganz and Yair Lapid came onto the stage together and announced the launch of the new Blue and White coalition to lead the country after the upcoming Israeli elections. Benny Ganz said that his mother and Lapid’s father lived in the same ghetto in Budapest during the Holocaust years.
Gantz vs. Netanyahu battle lines drawn Read More »
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