Category: First-Hand and Investigative
As I try to develop my skills as a journalist, I will look for opportunities to get out into the field and away from my computer to write about people and events first-hand. In other cases, my first-hand reporting will be Internet based investigations.
Oy! The disappointment! Let’s see what happened to pro-Palestinians in government since Oct 7th. A group calling itself AJP Action (Americans for Justice in Palestine) lobbies the USA government on behalf of Palestinian interests....
The Oslo Accords have been an astounding failure. The two-state-solution, whereby a Palestinian state will supposedly live in peace alongside the Jewish State of Israel, is no longer believed feasible by many. Especially after...
Egypt tries to develop a state culture at the expense of Israel based on hatred for the external enemy. Syria does the same. Tribes, however, don’t need an external enemy to galvanize their people...
My head is spinning. Maybe some of you can help make sense of what is now happening. And I don’t mean those commenters who call Israelis Nazis, thank you very much. In recent days,...
In Part 1 of this series, Dan Diker explained a possible solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict, the Village Leagues. It is, in some ways, similar to Mordechai Kedar’s Emirates proposal. While 85% of...
Oslo failed. Oslo was the most catastrophic and failed initiative since the establishment of the State because it inverted Israel’s legitimacy on the international stage in favour of the PLO. And now there is...
If some Syrian Alawites think they are Muslims, I can be forgiven for having thought that too. Isn’t that curious? That many Alawites born after 1971 in Syria make that mistake? How did that...
All I did was introduce myself as an Israeli journalist and Yusef (not his real name), who wants the plight of the Alawites to be told to the world, quickly typed out a story...