IPS not relenting on inhumane conditions of Ben Uliel’s imprisonment
I wonder if reading this will cause your heart to break as it broke mine to write it. I wonder if you will feel the rage build up inside you as I did. Tonight...
Israel Diaries Blog
Lapid should have known better. Two major errors in his speech.
Aside from two things, I totally enjoyed Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s UN speech. Those two things, however, made me grimmace with the sheer stupidity of them. In spite of the parts of his speech...
Why is Likud boycotting Asaf Liberman?
Not every journalist who conducts television or radio interviews with individuals important to the state of our nation show tenacity in face of interviewee attempts to slip away from directly answering difficult questions.Asaf Liberman...
A Letter from Naftali Bennett to Us All
Below is my translation of a Facebook Post former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett put up on September 14 and it is offered here with permission. The original post is beneath the English. Let me...
Bennett Blinked First
At the end of his first year as Israel’s prime minister, Naftali Bennett was faced with the second critical decision point of his political life – the first, of course, being whether or not...
Should the Israeli Innocence Project take up the case of Amiram Ben Uliel?
There is a quietly smoldering sense among the Israeli public that the confession that led to the conviction of Amiram Ben Uliel should be thrown out because it was obtained through “enhanced investigation techniques,”...
Once upon a time in Israel . . .
When I first moved to Israel and began to understand Hebrew (back in the mid 1970s), I was amazed to witness the high degree of public involvement in the political goings on. Canadians did...
Promises, promises, promises. But you promised!
Promises made, promises kept, promises set aside — and the betrayal experienced by voters who believed the promises. The anger directed against Naftali Bennett was because of the betrayal so many of his voters...
Amiram Ben Uliel: Guilty, or a victim of political expediency?
Can this contradiction-laden criminal case, that condemned a young Amiram Ben Uliel to a life in prison, be considered a trial of political expediency carried out mainly because of internal and extenal pressure? Or...
