Arab Israeli Right-winger Wants To Be Safe
I met an Arab Israeli who belongs to a right-wing party. That does not happen much. Sayid (not his real name) is not running for office. He is just a rank and file member...
Category: Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
One Street in Hebron? One Street? Really, BBC? One Street?
The BBC produced a beautiful website promoting anti-Israeli Breaking-the-Silence propaganda on a sleek enviable platform. They called it: “Hebron: One Street, two sides“. Take a look at it; this is the quality of material...
Fighting Terror By Draining Their Stash
Well, if not their stash, then the virtual pipes through which their stash flows on its way to their computers, after which it is impossible to touch. In our modern digital age, money no...
How Not To Break ‘Breaking The Silence’
A few days ago, Breaking the Silence sent out a celebratory email to their subscribers, in English and in Hebrew, marking their victory against those who want to silence them. This case shows exactly...
Can Any Good Come of USA Disengagement From the Palestinian Authority?
First, the USA stopped funding UNRWA. Then they stopped funding USAID, the body through which funds were directed to the various American and international humanitarian aide organizations that provided much needed help and services...
Israeli PM Hopeful Benny Gantz Makes Himself a Stooge For Jew-Haters
Benny Gantz’s election campaign videos are being used by Electronic Intifada to tar and feather Israel. When this is your starting point: . . . Gantz, like Netanyahu, is accurately reflecting the desires and...
Former Haifa Mayor, Yona Yahav, and Reflections on Political Vision
Yona Yahav is a man of vision. In 1956, as a twelve-year-old boy, he envisioned himself Mayor of Haifa. Everything he did from that point on was with that goal in mind. And he...
Rabbi Sacks: The Arabs Are Our Cousins, Not The Muslims
Allow me to correct Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. Presumptuous of me? Perhaps. I love reading what Rabbi Sacks writes, so let me just offer a little tweak to something he wrote. In a recent...
