Happy Independence Day — If You Celebrate It
In what other country in the world would you find a major university qualifying their Independence Day greeting to students? What does that little “if you celebrate it” do to those who see it?...
Israel Diaries Blog
The Occupation Causes Schizophrenia
A new article, entitled “Schizophrenia in the Context of Mental Health Services in Palestine”, reviews the literature concerning problems treating schizophrenic patients in the Palestinian Authority (PA). All authors are faculty at the An-Najah...
Did This Happen Because Arabic was Demoted?
In which case, the Arab parliamentarians in Israel may either jump for joy or sigh in relief. Or is it because anti-Zionist Arabs running for public office are treated differently by Israel’s Supreme Court...
LOL — Calling Hebron Occupied and then Showing the 97% that is not.
News of the impending appropriation of a few meters of land, the few meters required to build an accessiblity elevator to the Cave of the Patriarchs, has resulted in the production of the amusing...
Defence-Minister-for- not-much-longer, Naftali Bennett, Takes the Bull by the Horns
Defence Minister Bennett has strong ideas. And he has started openly talking his mind directly to the public. By doing this, he may prevent the civil unrest that is seething right now like a...
OK Litzman. Dayenu!
As if it was not enough that Health Minister Yaakov Litzman allegedly obstructed justice by influencing the psychiatric reports offered to the courts considering the extradition of Malka Leifer. The former school principle is...
Journalists Play “Fish” With the News
I once thought that journalists and media outlets were interested in reporting on the news-as-it-is and not the news-as-they-want-it-to-be. Silly me! Here is a recent fishing expedition brought to our attention on Twitter. It...
Is Israeli Democracy in Danger?
Horrified Israeli voters on the left shout and curse at those of us on the right, telling us that Bibi is destroying Israeli democracy. They refuse to consider that perhaps the problem is the...
