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‘This is the citadel of King David’: Israeli archeologist claims he’s found legendary site near Jerusalem’s Old City. Daniel Estrin, Associated Press   JERUSALEM — An Israeli archeologist says he has found the legendary citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem, rekindling a longstanding debate about using the …

Israel is an ancient nation, celebrating the 66th year of her rebirth.       And there is a great deal to celebrate, my friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Ben-Dror Yemini, writing about the paradoxes in how Israel is seen, says (emphasis added): “…there is one thing [Israel’s founders] definitely didn’t know: That …

                    Israel’s Memorial day – a day for remembering all those from our defense forces who have died defending the country, and all those who have died at the hands of terrorists.  It is a day of national mourning.  Just about …

  I would like to pick up on the two topics I wrote about before Shabbat: accusations of Israel as “apartheid” and the debate about Israel as a Jewish state vs. democratic state. These subjects may overlap, but they are separate issues. As to apartheid.  Warren Goldstein, chief rabbi of …

    Shabbat starts late at this season, which allows me the time to do a post – but even so, Shabbat is Shabbat and this will be brief. The nine-month negotiating deadline of April 29 came and went with no resolution of the issues, and no promise of an …

The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – and international law – have finally emerged as triumphant victors over the 1964 PLO Charter following the collapse of 50 years of failed attempts by the PLO to arbitrarily void the vote of the 51 members of the League of Nations …

Weekly Israel Advocacy Update. Written by Emily Gian. Media and Advocacy Director, Zionist Federation of Australia..   Some weeks ago I wrote about the peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which had then been meandering along with little progress for eight months. From the outset of the talks, …

I voted for John Kerry for president of the United States in 2004. Of course, I also voted for Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, and the current resident of Pennsylvania Avenue. In the past Kerry has suggested that unless Israel does what he wants – which apparently is to stop the building …

                A day of remembering the heroes and the martyrs here in Israel.  Heroes, too, because there were those who resisted.   As the years go, and more of the survivors are gone, the act of remembering with immediacy becomes more difficult.  Yet …

  April 27, 2014: Throwing Up My Hands. How much can one write about the moribund “peace process”?  (Please read through, as I move to another very important subject.) There is only one piece of good news regarding the “peace process”: Netanyahu and the Security Cabinet came through. After a prolonged …

  How long will we, as a society, tolerate the proactive propagation of harebrained, hazardous hallucinations-irrespective of how demonstratively detrimental they are to the security of the state & safety of its citizens? The real question is not whether the Palestinians are willing to accept some semantic formula having to …

Talk throughout the Jewish press and blogosphere is consumed with the apparent death of the non-peace process.  Mahmoud Abbas says that Fatah is now seeking unity with Hamas and Netanyahu is claiming that his government will not negotiate with terrorists, thus bringing this long, miserable Obama-Kerry diplomatic fiasco to a …

  It’s safe to say the Palestinian Authority shot itself in the foot with the Hamas/Fatah reconciliation. By joining forces with a terrorist organization whose number one goal is to obliterate Israel, there can no longer be any doubt that PA President Mahmoud Abbas never intended to make peace, and …

Written and submitted by Arlene Kushner.   April 23, 2014: More on Freedom Or lack thereof. Before I get to the more current news, I want to back-track just a bit.  Stay with me: see where I am going. As you may recall, at the end of March, we were expected …

  Easter 2014 will be remembered as the time when PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas tried to resurrect the Palestinian Authority (PA) that he himself had declared dead and buried on 3 January 2013.   Adopting US Secretary of State Kerry’s terminology – “Poof – that was the day that signalled …

Outside of political Islam, the most racist political movement in the west, today, of any significance, is unquestionably the progressive-left… the movement from whence I sprang. The style of contemporary progressive-left racism varies from the dying old-fashioned right-wing variety, because it is grounded in a condescension that sees the ethnic …

  April 22, 2014: Zeman Herutenu The Time of our Freedom. Another term for the Pesach Holiday which is just completing (last night here in Israel, tonight outside of Israel).  As I picked up news over the holiday that gave me a knot of considerable dimensions in my stomach, I knew …

Gotta Smile! How would you like your judge? Zionist or patriotic? (Video) Happy Gaza , Where the Suffering is Unbearable Undermining the Peace Process With Prisoner Releases Love of the Land is the blog of Yosef and Melody in Hebron. Let me ask you, how much guts does it take …

(I posted this on my own blog on Erev Pesach, under a different title, and thought readers here may be interested in it; some, who can remember the sixties, may even have heard the address in question): In view of the time-honoured Seder wish “Next Year in Jerusalem!” and to …