Victory and Resilience alongside Despair: Passover 2025
Count the number of Passover Seders held this year in Israel and the Diaspora (and the latter get two, one for each side of the family) and that is a measure of our victory....
Category: 2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah
A growing collection as I examine various aspects of the war against Hamas first and Hezbollah a bit later. Hamas essentially declared war against Israel on 7 October 2023 when terrorists infiltrated our communities and — in a rampage of horror — tortured, slaughtered and abducted men, women, and children of all ages. Hezbollah has been showering the northern communities with dailyl rockets and missiles.
Author John Matthews should try playing peace-maker in his own sandbox
Author John Matthews has just written an article with the boastful, pretentious title, “The Ultimate, Definitive Peace Plan.” Matthews is like all those who come up with all kinds of peace arrangements for Israel,...
Trump’s Plan: Transfer is bad, racist, right? Maybe it’s racist to be opposed to this
Yes, when you call Trump’s Plan ‘transfer,’ it sounds really bad. Scornful. Leans toward a situation in which you can call Israelis that thing we are afraid of being called: racists. How dare we...
Tal Hartuv talks about justice, mercy, and risking letting go
After having been a strong spokeswoman combatting the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay salaries-and-retirement-plan for terrorists, Tal Hartuv went silent for a number of years. After Oct 7th, she began speaking publicly again. In this interview,...
Hostage Deal: Both Sides of the Coin
We ALL want ALL the hostages home. We all want the surviving hostages reunited with their families and beginning the work of rehabilitation and building their futures and we want the bodies of the...
Israel’s “Sophie’s Choice” hostage deal would drive anyone to drink
In American author William Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, Sophie was forced, at Auschwitz, to choose which of her two children would be sent to the gas chamber and which would live. Should she have...
What happens when Hezbollah’s missile hits the biggest Arab city in Israel?
When just about to fall asleep, the red alert notifications went off on my phone by my bed. As I was reading the long list of towns and cities in which families were getting...
Peace Partnership — Ending the war by vilifying IDF soldiers. Good for fund raising at least.
Saturday, August 24, an organization called The Peace Partnership ran a convention in the Arab city of Taibeh. The event was well covered in the Arabic press, aroused some controversy in the Hebrew press...
