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...
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.
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...
This is what Israelis should be arguing about.
My bias is showing here. I believe that all the demonstrations in Israel insisting that the government accept a deal NOW, accept ceasefire NOW are working against the better interests of both the state...
Please tell me how a general strike makes sense.
It took me till the end of writing this article for me to finally see what this strike could have been good for. I am telling you this up front because, if you are...
Intentional genocide of the Gazan civilian population
Among anti-Israeli demonstrators, Israel stands accused of committing genocide, purposefully killing off of the Gazan civilian population. But the truth is that the political and military leadership of Gaza, whose job it is to...
Ceasefire: Damned if we do and damned if we don’t
Military and Middle East expert Andrew Fox ended his most recent article by saying that Israel is damned if our leaders accept a ceasefire now and damned if they do not. Damned in the...
