The word on the street in Israel is varied after Obama’s monumental speech in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. President Netanyahu is now faced with a monumental dilemma of choosing between his coalition and relations with the United States.
The United States symbiotic relationship with Israel is not in jeapordy, however without Israel’s obeying Obama’s new policy shift, [...]
Tear Down the wall says Roger Waters, former band member of Pink Floyd. Mr Waters visited Israel in 2006 and played a single concert to a sold out makeshift open air stadium of 50,000 (paying) Israeli Jews. He also found time on his whirlwind visit to hop over the fence (or over the big bad [...]
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086115.html
This headline would come as a shocker in any other country, in any other context, in any other time.
However, here in Israel in 2009, I was only surprised that the percentage was less than half.
The survey shows that Holocaust denial among Israeli Arabs has become more prevalent in recent years. In 2006, 28 percent of [...]
I read an interesting interview yesterday with a Rabbi from a program that specializes in keeping religious soldiers on the path of learning Torah _after_ they leave the army. I can’t remember the Rabbi’s name, but this was the gist of his argument on why Hamas and Palestinians seem to be gaining so much [...]
