‘Israel’ Archive

Excuse me ma’am, but we blew up your laptop …

In any place that “sticky” situations might arise from, such as border crossings in Israel, humor can be derived. This is one of those situations. Haaretz reports:
Israel Border Police officers shot at an American student’s laptop as she entered Israel via Taba, Egypt, two weeks ago.
Lily Sussman, 21, wrote on her blog that border police [...]

Dennis Prager with Start-Up Nation author

Part 1 of 3.
I feel a bit uncomfortable posting this. I’m a liberal Democrat yet I agree with much of the economic policies Prager and his guest discuss. I grew up on a kibbutz but I strongly believe that it is not sustainable.

By the Numbers: the UNHRC vote on Goldstone

I know it’s a bit late, but here it is …
Being a numbers oriented person, I divided the UNHRC members into 3 groups to better explain its vote on the Goldstone report. The first group (A), the countries that voted against the resolution endorsing the Goldstone report and those that refused to vote summed up [...]

Rights vs What is Right

Let me start by saying that I support the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the right-wing march go through Israel’s largest Arab city, Umm el-Fahm. However, I don’t see the point in the march that occurred in Israel today. They want to wave an Israeli flag in an Israeli city? So what? I reserve the [...]

Amira Hass and IDF War Crimes

The “infallible” Amira Hass of Haaretz has “uncovered” another piece of “evidence” proving that the IDF has committed war crimes in the recent war in Gaza.
In her latest “presentation to the court”, she describes a “sheet of paper found in one of the Palestinian homes the Israel Defense Forces took over during Operation Cast [...]

A Religious War in Israel’s Army

Ethan Bronner of the NYTimes has a great review over the recent events concerning the testimonies of Israeli soldiers about civilian deaths, and over the struggle between the religious right and the left over control of the army (i.e. officer positions and military instruction) that has been going on over that last several years if [...]

All the rage

I noticed something peculiar today. The biggest story in the Western press about Israel in the past two days has been about the publication of testimonies by Israeli soldiers about the killing of civilian Palestinians in Gaza. One of the two Israeli newspapers that published the testimonies was Haaretz. I saw the Haaretz article yesterday [...]