Perhaps the most disturbing issue, raised by the cloud of doubt, enveloping the Duma-related legal proceedings, is the tangible possibility that the real perpetrators of the gruesome murders may still be roaming around free—secure in the knowledge that someone else will pay for the atrocity they committed Terror is terror. …
Read More »Into the Fray: The forgotten fire?
Last week’s fires did little to illuminate much of the unknown still shrouding another conflagration that flared up, almost a year and a half ago. I feel a sense of shame, and even more, a sense of pain…at the murder of a small baby. Pain that from my people, there …
Read More »INTO THE FRAY: Duma-one year (and three arson attacks) later.
With continuing unsolved arson attacks in Duma, seven months after a coerced confession & an indictment wildly at odds with eyewitness accounts, troubling questions must be raised “I saw Sa’ad and Reham burning on the ground. Next to them were TWO masked men, one beside each of them. They were …
Read More »Arlene from Israel: “Fighting the Good Fight”
When I placed the Legal Grounds cartoon in my last posting, I said I would be sharing more about the EU. The cartoon was aimed at the distorted perspective of the EU, and it is just the beginning. EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen consistently makes statements about the “fact” …
Read More »Arlene from Israel: “Full Agenda”
So much, so much to write about. I suggested as much toward the end of my last posting on Friday. But we will not by-pass the good news first: An Israeli hi-tech agricultural start up has developed an Internet of Things technology for crops. (Internet of Things: IoT, a network …
Read More »Into the fray: Duma, ‘dirty dancing’ & deeply disturbing detention
To draw any equivalence between Arab, Jewish “terror” is like claiming that a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and a rubber dinghy are equivalent because they can both be classed “sailing vessels.” The houses burned [in Duma] aren’t in the outskirts of the town where it is easy to make a getaway. …
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