Here we are, at the end of Pesach, with the final day coming on Shabbat here in Israel, and also on Sunday, outside. This is a time for learning the lessons of our people, for rejoicing in all that we have become since the Almighty brought us out of Egypt. …
Read More »From Israel: “Can It Really Be??!”
Yup, it can. This is the first posting of the year 2021, and it will focus on good news. There hasn’t been much of late. But I rejoice that there actually seem to be a number of upbeat items worthy of attention. Let’s set a positive tone while that is …
Read More »From Israel: Perpetual Rollercoaster.
It’s a “normal” situation for us. We win some, we lose some. Yet, somehow, these last few days, that roller coaster ride seems to have more curves than usual. ~~~~~~~~~~ Take the UN Secretary General, António Guterres. He’d been great lately: he made a statement against the PA youth center …
Read More »Into the Fray:What if the GOP wins?–Potential payoffs & pitfalls for Israel.
The changes in the Republican platform are a welcome development, but they create new challenges for Israel & much depends on how it meets them Rejecting decades-old policy, the Republican Party approved on July 12 a [2016] platform that does not include a call for a two-state solution to the …
Read More »Arlene from Israel – Hypocrisy Writ Large.
Note: Please share widely. It’s imperative that as many people as possible read this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hypocrisy is all around us, but I will focus today on the very significant information that the Israeli NGO Regavim has uncovered regarding the EU: The Europeans protest long and loud about “illegal Israeli building” …
Read More »Oh the Hypocrisy of the UN, the EU and the World!
Israel builds legally where She is permitted to build and the UN, the EU and indeed the World is up in arms about it. The EU builds ILLEGALLY and there is not a peep out of anyone. ? Regavim has just released its latest report into the illegal EU building …
Read More »Arlene in Israel – The World Keeps Turning.
It’s official. Last night the Knesset voted – 93 in favor, no votes against and no abstentions – to disband itself. We are in a campaign period. A huge amount of jockeying is now taking place with regard to possible mergers of parties, timing of the Likud primary (which Netanyahu …
Read More »Into the Fray: Earth to Bennett; Earth to Bennett…
It is difficult to know what is more disturbing: Whether Bayit Yehudi chairman Naftali Bennett really believes the delusional drivel he wrote in his op-ed this week, or whether he doesn’t, but wrote it anyway. Israel must allow Palestinians complete freedom of movement, which requires removing all roadblocks …
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