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FACT: On November 12, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that products coming from Jewish localities in the West Bank could not carry the label “Made in Israel” and must be labelled as a product originating from an “Israeli Settlement.”  This decision reflects an all-too-familiar double-standard applied to …

Benny Gantz has only until Wednesday until he must form a government or return the mandate. It’s anyone’s guess what is going to happen. And here I was, just days ago, thinking that maybe it would go well and we would have a unity government in very short order.  But …

Bringing us up to date: Tuesday night, after a day of rocket attack from Gaza, all was relatively quiet. Then on Wednesday, serious rocket barrages began again. At that point, Israel’s response intensified, first with regard to the level of our military response – but in other ways as well. …

Delaying the inevitable does not make it less inevitable—only more costly   The targeted assassination of the senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist, Bahaa Abu al-Ata, strikingly underscored two—curiously contrary—things. The paradox of Israel: Techno-tactical genius; strategic imbecility. The one is Israel’s remarkable expertise and aptitude at the techno-tactical level that …

Press Release: Fox News Reporter in Gaza: Amnesty International Lied About Israeli Rocket Attack. Amnesty International lied yesterday (Tuesday) when it accused Israel of violating international law for bombing the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights building in Gaza, said Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. Yingst, reporting from Gaza, …

And the world is not silent. Let’s talk about hypocrisy.  Let’s talk about double standards.  Let’s talk about UNRWA. For years, UNRWA has been using its status as a UN organization as a cover for subversive actions against the State of Israel.  It is the only UN agency dedicated to …

I had not planned to post again so soon, but when a crisis arises, there is no time to delay. I write now to inform my readers of the realities on the ground. I ask that you, in turn, share this in order to inform others. The situation that I …

Press Release In Response to Rocket Fire, Pro-Israel Group Im Tirtzu Launches Campaign: “The People Demand Victory“ In response to the recent escalation in southern Israel, the pro-Israel organization Im Tirtzu has launched a new campaign calling for victory over Hamas. The campaign, titled “The People Demand Victory,” is calling …

Last night Israel carried out a targeted assassination on the leader of Islamic Jihad in Gaza. The pinpoint operation killed the terrorist and his wife. There was another mysterious attack in Syria in which the son of another terrorist leader was killed, but Israel is keeping shtum about that attack, …

As to the question of who knows which way is up:  There is a WHOLE lot of confusion, not just in Israel, but around the world, with regard to this. While I make light of it, just a tad, to help us all keep our sanity, in reality this dysfunction …

I do not know where this conversation will lead. I know that I have considerable respect for Enno Raschke who is a researcher and historian for Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Center, in Jerusalem. I am a PhD in American History from the Pennsylvania State University who also writes on …

This week I’ll focus on Israel’s scientific advances, always a source of good news. An Israeli team has discovered the gene that causes cardiac arrhythmia: (via Reality): A team of researchers at Ben-Gurion University is en route to discovering medical therapy to treat atrial fibrillation (AF) that occurs at rest, …

The obdurate resistance of Gaza to any type of resolution has led to such overriding exasperation that it has begun to undermine the quality of the public debate on the issue. The IDF swept triumphantly into the Egyptian-ruled Gaza Strip in early June 1967 and pulled out ignominiously in mid-August …

It’s always great to be in Israel. I like to visit a small hole in the wall business in Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem – the Kippah Man. Let’s call the owner ‘Yosi’ – being Israel, everyone knows his real name is Avraham of course – but……… When I have …

  My friends, I have been struggling for days with regard to writing my next posting.  Everything is SO chaotic, and much of what is happening is truly not good news.  For the first time, I was having trouble deciding what message I wanted to deliver. Now it has come …

In early September, 2019, Benyamin Netanyahu promised to annex a part of the West Bank called the Jordan Valley if he won Israel’s election on September 17.  Netanyahu did not have a clear win in that election, but that does not mean that any combination of any subsequent government of …

We turned the clocks back last Saturday night so Shabbat now comes in just after 4.30 pm! It’s very weird to be on winter time with early nights while the days are still (mostly) sunny and warm. In any case it’s time (just about!) for my latest Good News Friday …

Former Justice Minister, ‘Tommy’ Lapid: “…the legal system in Israel is being undermined by an over-zealous State Prosecutor’s Office, that is losing esteem and credibility with each additional trial…”    This week was a tumultuous one for Israel’s legal establishment—and rightly so. Perversion of the democratic process. For almost a …

Dozens of demonstrators gathered today outside the Haifa Magistrate’s Court to protest the sentence handed to terrorist Amjad Jabareen, an Arab-Israeli accomplice to the 2017 terror attack on the Temple Mount. Jabareen was sentenced by the court to 16 years in prison for serving as an accomplice to the terrorists …

Quagmire, morass, predicament.  Call it what you will, Israel’s current political situation is one hell of a mess. Actually, I call it a busha, a source of shame ‒ that some of our purported leaders have not managed (or have not chosen) to get their acts together to form a …