Shirlee Finn

La France vous êtes malade.

This account of the events in Paris, France and the abominable treatment dished out to Prime Minister Netanyahu, was on my Facebook wall last night from Caroline Glick. With many thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prime Minister Netanyahu earned his keep in Paris yesterday. According to an incredibly hostile report last night by Channel …

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Where’s Israel?

For the past week  or so we have seen the fiasco of ‘vanishing Israel’ from maps of the Middle East. The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has accused the publishing giant HarperCollins of harming peace efforts in the Middle East by leaving Israel off its maps. Seems that HarperCollins, …

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Kerry says…..

John Kerry

This sounds like  the old child’s game “Simon  says” but it’s “Kerry says”. That guy is delusional. Where is his head? No don’t answer that, it’s a hypothetical question anyhow. In my News Feed this morning I read the headline: Kerry: Israeli-Palestinian peace is not a pipe dream If only …

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Jews of Persia : An ancient Community.

Jewish communities throughout the Middle East, in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria have all gone, bar a handful here and there.  Yet Persia (Iran) is home to some  25,000 to 35,000  Jews. The Jewish population is now less than half the number who lived here before the Islamic …

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ACRI: a NIF grantee.

Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) is one in a string of Israeli NGO with a bad track record when it comes to its condemnation of Israel. Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) Hebrew: האגודה לזכויות האזרח בישראל; Arabic:جمعية حقوق المواطن في اسرائيل ACRI Claims to be “committed …

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‘In Flander’s Fields the Poppies Grow………’

A well-known and much loved poem written by John McCrae a poet and physician from Guelph, Ontario. The red poppies McCrae referred to had been associated with war since the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) when a writer of that time first noted how the poppies grew over the graves of soldiers.The …

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Rising star of the Left – Melissa Parke.

Melissa Parke is an Australian politician. She has been the ALP member of the Australian House of Representatives, for Fremantle, Western Australia, since 2007 . Two days ago, on October 27th, Max Chalmers of the good old ultra leftist rag “the new matilda” wrote: Melissa Parke breaks Labor ranks to …

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ADALAH – a grantee of the NIF

Adalah is an Arabic word which means justice  and denotes The Justice of God. It is among the five Shia Principles of the Religion. So what’s a so-called Israeli group, that is a grantee of the NIF – New Israel Fund, doing with an Arabic name? One also has to …

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Children at War.

We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister, 1972.   Convention on the Rights …

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“Terra Australis”

Terror Australia, a play on the original and apt name of this great land ‘Terra Australis’ given that the Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced  an increase in National Terrorism Public Alert System last week . Seeing as to how Australia’s terror threat level has been raised from medium to high, …

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Are the Greens past their “Use By” date?

What’s the Greens problem? We know the Greens have issues. In fact the Greens have issues with anything and everything there is to have issues with. This article I came across whilst searching its origins, really has to be read: The far-left history of the Australian Greens The Australian Green …

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Jerusalem approves plan to build 2,200 Arab homes.

A few days ago Jerusalem announced their plan to build some 2,200 homes for Arabs in  the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Arav al-Swahara. This is a very run down area of Jerusalem, According to the Times of Israel Arab residents of Jerusalem often accuse the municipality of failing to approve …

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South Australians Supporting Israel.

Just under two years ago three friends, Tania Fenwick, Ben White and Virginia Snape all from Adelaide, South Australia, joined together to support Israel during Operation Pillar of Cloud.  I wrote about it here  Daphne Anson Blog. From small beginnings in November 2012, their non denominational Facebook group  ‘South Australians …

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Antisemitism rears its ugly head in Bondi.

Residents of Bondi and Double Bay, the Jewish heart of Sydney were shattered to find antisemitic flyers in their mailboxes on Monday August 25th. The flyer appears to have come from a group by the name of  “Squadron 88” Facebook page here They say: squadron 88 is a NSW based …

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“Join Team AUSTRALIA”

Finally someone has the guts to stand up and say it how it is .   Today our esteemed Prime Minister Tony Abbott, told migrants  not to come here unless they are prepared to be part of “TEAM AUSTRALIA”. Terrific, about time and long overdue. Multiculturalism has destroyed the character …

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