This is a reprise of an oldie but a goodie! I think we published this short film about 3 years ago? 4? Anyway, it’s fun to watch. I’m so sad the site Xtranormal no longer exists. It was...
Tag - Abbas
6 Major Falsehoods About the UN Vote for Palestine
It’s not my beat to write about politics. I usually leave that to The Middle and CK. But I can’t help but put down some ideas in the wake of the UN vote to create a Palestinian non-member...
No, don’t help Abbas and the PA with prisoner releases
There’s a little bit of fear-mongering going on right now by some parties that want Israel to release Fatah prisoners to make Mahmoud Abbas look good. The IDF, for example, has expressed to the...
The New York Times with its Ideological Blinders on Israel Fails Again
I can’t keep doing this. Every couple of days the New York Times gets it wrong again when it comes to Israel. How many times can the Times try to knock the square peg into the round hole before...
Welcome to the Palestinian Endgame
In November of ’09 I wrote a couple of pieces about how we had entered the Palestinian Endgame. In those posts I suggested that the Palestinians, for the first time in decades, actually...
Palestinian statehood or Abbas and Erakat sharing a shakshuka recipe?
Go ahead, click on this…you know you want to… By the way, here is the post with Dave Abitbol’s mom’s shakshuka recipe. It’s a classic.
Tom Friedman and his upside down world with Israel at its bottom
A couple of weeks ago, I had to write a response to an unbelievably biased and error-riddled NY Times editorial. Since then, that paper has published two more egregiously wrong editorials, but since...
US-Israel Relations: An Interview with Gil Hoffman of The Jerusalem Post
Interview with Gil Hoffman, Chief Political Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. by David Bratslavsky Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post. I met him...