Nothing surprising about this story
This is the Israel I know and love. For five and a half years, while Gilad Shalit was held by Hamas in Gaza, the Iscar metal working tools company offered his family financial…
The New York Times with its Ideological Blinders on Israel Fails Again
I can’t keep doing this. Every couple of days the New York Times gets it wrong again when it comes to Israel. How many times can the Times try to knock the square…
A Noble Day for Israel
The list of Palestinians who were released today in trade for one Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, is nauseating. There is the planner of the bombing on Passover Eve in Netanya in 2002 that…
Ben Stiller on SNL
I don’t know how long this video will stay up, but it’s worth finding if they remove it. If it’s gone, look up Ben Stiller opening monologue in Saturday Night Live episode 705.
Another Israeli Nobel Prize – Dan Shechtman from Technion for Chemistry
In April, 6 months before the Nobel Committee’s announcement about the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Ha’aretz published an article about Danny Shechtman, who was awarded the prize, describing the scientist and the…
Have you read the Performance-Based Roadmap?
This is the “Roadmap” referred to in every Quartet agreement and relevant UN Security Council resolution in order to bring peace and two states for Israelis and Palestinians. It is supposed to be…
Time for Shas and Eli Yishai to Leave the Government Permanently
Eli Yishai is an idiot. Eli Yishai hurts Israel gravely. Eli Yishai is a menace to all Israelis. Eli Yishai should retire tomorrow and his party needs to disappear. His party is Shas….
Is it offensive to compare abortion to the Holocaust?
I think so, but I’m willing to be hear others’ opinions. Here’s the manipulative film called “180″
Welcome to the Palestinian Endgame
In November of ’09 I wrote a couple of pieces about how we had entered the Palestinian Endgame. In those posts I suggested that the Palestinians, for the first time in decades, actually…
BDS is for the Birds
These appear to be the contents of a letter from Professor Denis MacEoin to the students of the Edinburgh University Student Association after their idiotic and bigoted decision to single out Israel from…
Palestinian statehood or Abbas and Erakat sharing a shakshuka recipe?
Go ahead, click on this…you know you want to… By the way, here is the post with Dave Abitbol’s mom’s shakshuka recipe. It’s a classic.
A Question About Palestinian Statehood and the Security Barrier (aka “The Wall”)
Um, if the security barrier is racist and leads to apartheid, why do the Palestinians seek to establish a state with no Jews in it on land 92% of which sits to the…
Tom Friedman and his upside down world with Israel at its bottom
A couple of weeks ago, I had to write a response to an unbelievably biased and error-riddled NY Times editorial. Since then, that paper has published two more egregiously wrong editorials, but since…
How Robert Lantos disengaged from York University because of John Greyson
I have no way of verifying the authenticity of this email, although its contents are accurate enough and on the basis of the stand Robert Lantos took back during the 2009 attempts by…
Steve Jobs and his Stanford speech
This is a re-post of an old post of mine called Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Steve Jobs has officially resigned as Apple’s CEO after one of the most extraordinary and influential tenures of…
Wow, a not kitschy video about Jerusalem
This is an unusually well done video about Jerusalem and other parts of Israel related to its ancient Jewish past. Open it up to full screen. Jerusalem | Filmed in Imax 3D from…
Shameful New York Times Editorial About Israel Arab Conflict
It has come to this. The NY Times reveals plainly what many of us have known for years now: the only way to defend the politically correct line that the Palestinians are not…
Jewlicious and Kiruv
I’m going to put this out there because it needs to be said. Over the past couple of years, enough people have hinted or said outright to people from Jewlicious that funding for…
Obama opens door to “dialogue” with West-hating Muslim Brotherhood, EU follows
Something is very wrong with this picture, right? Right on the heels of the US announcing they’re talking to the Taliban, comes news that they’ve opened lines of dialogue with the Muslim Brotherhood….
History lesson about Yishuv in Palestine from Bashar Assad’s grandfather
Through some sort of maze of websites that I can’t recall right now, I recently arrived at a NY Review of Books article about modern Syria, the Alawites (faith to which the Assads…
Flotilla wins before even sailing
It seems like only yesterday that I wrote a horrified post about how stupidly Israel handled the last flotilla, which ended with the death of 9 Muslim activists and the injury of a…
Presidential Conference: Israel’s Deligitimiblahblah
The panel discussion title was “De-Legitimization: Who is at Fault? Us or Them?” except that the difficulty of pronouncing “delegitimization” made the prominent guests finally give up and call it deligitimiblahblah. Yes, it…
Presidential Conference: Has the Love Cooled Between Israel and the USA?
Well, it took about 30 seconds for the first panelist, Elliott Abrams, to inform us that the answer is “no.” The next hour included echoing sentiments from the four other panelists, Martin Indyk,…
J Street and the question of the pro-Israel tent
At the Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, a panel called Thin Ice – Criticism vs. Loyalty in Israel-Diaspora Relations included reporter Shmuel Rosner as moderator. Participants were Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director and founder of…
Tel Aviv Beginnings
Tiroche Auction House is selling a 46 photo album of the photographs of Avraham Soskin. He’s the man behind the famous photo from 1909 of the division of lots in Ahuzat Bait, the…
