“Ouch!! Confronting Truth, Because We Must!!” The world is full of incidents that it would be easier, more comfortable, to avoid confronting – but which we must meet head on because truth matters. In the case I am going to address here, it matters a great deal indeed. ~~~~~~~~~~ In …
Read More »From Israel: Dangers – Within and Without
Before I begin to address those dangers, I want to return to the matter of the extradition from Jordan of Ahlam Ahmad al-Tamimi, mastermind of the horrendous Sbarro terror attack 20 years ago. You will find my posting that includes this material here (scroll towards bottom): https://arlenefromisrael.info/from-israel-hold-fast-and-dont-let-go/ I had written …
Read More »Into the fray: Something to worry about…
The debilitating deadlock, in which Israel’s political system is mired, is in large measure the result of judicial disregard—or at least distortion—of the law Over the past decade, the public image of the Supreme Court as an autonomous and impartial arbiter has been increasingly eroded… [T]he court and its judges …
Read More »The Israeli Left and the Myth of ‘Palestinian’ Susiya – an update
This is an update of an item I wrote a few months back . “An Imaginary Village invented by Real Bigots.” Susiya, is thought by some to correspond to the Biblical Carmel (Josh 15.5), a proposal made by Avraham Negev. Others argue that, in the wake of the Second Revolt …
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