Duh. That’s Lisa Goldman‘s central thesis in an opinion piece written in today’s edition of Haaretz: For Palestinians in the West Bank, the sense of helplessness and frustration...
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Lest We Forget
These are words that we hear at least once a year. For those of us who grew up in Jewish day school or in Sunday school, we heard this motto more often. “Lest we forget.” Lest we forget...
Hamas Leader Meshal Says War Against Israel Remains an Option
Scary! Khaled Meshal, political leader of Hamas, recently stated that all options against Israel remain open, including war: “We will do everything to obtain the rights stolen from us...
An Official Response to Goldstone
It’s about time, no? The Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, (the “Malam”), headed by Colonel (Res). Reuven Erlich, has released a 500 page report refuting the...
Peres Speaks at the Herzliya Conference
Speaking, last night, at the Herzliya Conference, Israeli President Shimon Peres spoke about many different topics. Speaking briefly of the Palestinians, Peres discussed the Palestinians’ state...
Jesus is my Gun Sight
Uhm. Not so much. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time I suppose. I mean when you look at any kind of armament you can’t help but notice all kinds of obscure alphanumeric codes that...
Eretz Nehederet on Haiti: Israel, Good Job!
Eretz Nehederet is an Israeli sketch comedy show that I never, ever watch. I think it airs on Friday night when I am usually in the company of my Sabbath posse. Also, I don’t own a television...
Making Heroes
With the world in awe of the Israeli response to the tragedy in Haiti, much energy has focused on the reason that Israel is good at this kind of disaster relief. Yes it is true that Israel deals with...