Feeling Sorry for Gazan Civilians?
I want to feel sorry for the civilians in Gaza killed either by our missiles (the very few that take innocent civilians along with targetted Hamas leaders or fighters) or by their own missiles...
Category: Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
Rowan Dean: How Dare the Israeli Government Prevent Jews from being Killed?
A breath of fresh air and a voice of sanity is heard at Sky New Australia. Host Rowan Dean talks for 15 minutes about what is really going on in the latest hostilities between...
A Trauma Therapist on the Ongoing Victim Status of the Palestinian Arabs
As a retired trauma therapist I cannot ignore a comment made by a Palestinian Arab woman in a promotional video invitation to participate in the May 15th Nakba Day ceremony about which I wrote...
Nakba Day for Peacemongers: A Combatants for Peace Oxymoron
Come on Jews! Let us join in the Palestinian Nakba Day ceremony! After all, we were invited by the NGO Combatants for Peace. Must mean that this is another step along the path toward...
The Present: Oscar-Worthy Victimhood
It is said that history is written by the victors. That is apparently not always true. When ‘narrative’ stands in for history, history can be revised and written by the vanquished. And, accordingly, we...
B’Tselem Confirms that Checkpoints in Judea and Samaria Not so Bad
Those who protest against the Israeli so-called ‘occupation’ always bring up the subject of prevention of freedom of movement in the Palestinian Authority (PA). For example, Machsom Watch, an organization that reports on the...
Doesn’t The Guardian Ever Stop Promoting Antisemitism?
Peddling in anti-Israel propaganda by publishing lies and distortions of the truth is one form of antisemitism that seems to be justified by much of the world as their declared right to criticize Israel....
Joint Memorial Day Ceremony — Hard questions? Answers?
Supposedly embracing the controversy around the joint Israeli-Palestinian memorial day ceremony, the American Friends of the Parents Circle hosted a zoom discussion on March 30 with Osama Elawat of the “Combatants for Peace” organization...
