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 »Good News Weekend – Pollard comes home!
This week’s Good News Weekend post simply HAS to focus on the amazing – and far too belated – return of Jonathan Pollard to Israel. If you want to know the background to the Jonathan Pollard case, you can read all that I have written about him at this link …
Read More »From Israel: ”We Are Not Chopped Liver!!”
Most of you are probably familiar with the phrase, spoken by someone who feels neglected or left out, “What am I, chopped liver?” Well, broadly I apply this sentiment now to Israel, which has taken a back seat in the focus of my last few postings. (Apply it with a …
Read More »From Israel: “Can It Be?!”- Jonathan Pollard.
I have been advised by a highly reliable inside source that a phone call from Prime Minster Netanyahu to President Trump has a good chance of achieving the release of Jonathan Pollard from his parole restrictions and making it possible for him and his wife to come to Israel at …
Read More »Arlene from Israel: Holding Tight
I’m so grateful to have some good things to write about, in the face of daily anguish. Several good things, as a matter of fact – ways in which innovative Israel helps and reaches out. That strange red creature on the leaf is a Phytoseiulus persimilis, the most effective predator …
Read More »Arlene from Israel: Hope Rising.
No, were are not about to see a new day, filled only with promise and light. And yet, there is light enough today to sustain us for the short term and then some. We have news, first – important news! – that Jonathan Pollard will be released from prison on …
Read More »Report: Jonathan Pollard to Be Released in Two Weeks?
Israeli source says Pollard deal is in the process of being secured – but at what cost? By Uzi Baruch. An Israeli official has confirmed to Arutz Sheva that a deal to secure Jonathan Pollard’s release over the next two weeks has crystallized, in a bid to exchange him with …
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