Category: Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
Sometimes you can find the damndest things when you read court protocols. While preparing an article on MK Ofir Katz’s (Likud) proposed amendments to the law prohibiting the candidature for the Knesset of those...
In what other country in the world would you find a major university qualifying their Independence Day greeting to students? What does that little “if you celebrate it” do to those who see it?...
News of the impending appropriation of a few meters of land, the few meters required to build an accessiblity elevator to the Cave of the Patriarchs, has resulted in the production of the amusing...
I once thought that journalists and media outlets were interested in reporting on the news-as-it-is and not the news-as-they-want-it-to-be. Silly me! Here is a recent fishing expedition brought to our attention on Twitter. It...
Horrified Israeli voters on the left shout and curse at those of us on the right, telling us that Bibi is destroying Israeli democracy. They refuse to consider that perhaps the problem is the...
As a result of our current national political debacle, former Haifa mayor, Yona Yahav, wrote a letter to the editor of Haaretz in which he calls for electoral reform. He suggests that we would...
In a Tweet, Idan Eretz showed us how fake media works. Well, sometimes, at least. I am sure this is not the only time this has happened. Translation below the Tweet: כרגע גוף...
Israeli society has not yet seen the need for applying Israeli ingenuity to serious study of the Please-like-us virus. At the close of the March 31 episode of Uvda, her weekly news investigation program,...