Israeli NGO ‘Standing Together’ Hits a Home Run for Anti-Zionism
Standing Together got wonderful press and who can object to their famous call: “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies?” But is that what they are really about? The Jerusalem Post wrote positively about the demonstration. Times of Israel wrote about it as if it was a good thing. And the image that graces the […]
Jurassic Park Author Dedicated Entire Novel to Fake Media Before Fake Media was a Thing
In 1996, Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Andromeda Strain fame published a lesser known novel called “Airframe“. The novel is about an airplane failure that threatened to bring down an American airplane frame manufacturer even though the plane was proven to be safe. When a popular television programme of the “60 […]
Ceasefire? A Slippery Thing when Dealing with Hamas
Browsing Twitter and Facebook shows that most of the world thought Israel was not playing fair during the most recent operation, named Guardian of the Walls, and they pressed for a ceasefire. We have the Iron Dome and bomb shelters and the Gazans only get a knock on the roof or a phone call telling […]
Hamas Tunnels: The “Metro” Infrastructure in all its Glory
The Israeli news site, N12 provided new information attained on the Hamas tunnels within built-up civilian areas, nick-named the “Metro”. This is where donor dollars are going instead of for food, medications, hospitals, education, bomb shelters for the population, and other purposes generally considered essential by sane societies. The tunnel system is one of the […]
Feeling Sorry for Gazan Civilians?
I want to feel sorry for the civilians in Gaza killed either by our missiles (the very few that take innocent civilians along with targetted Hamas leaders or fighters) or by their own missiles that fall short and kill their own. I want to. But right now I find it hard to feel sorry for […]
Rowan Dean: How Dare the Israeli Government Prevent Jews from being Killed?
A breath of fresh air and a voice of sanity is heard at Sky New Australia. Host Rowan Dean talks for 15 minutes about what is really going on in the latest hostilities between Hamas and Israel. He is calm and his presentation is low-key, but his language is cynical and sarcastic. It is worth […]
A Trauma Therapist on the Ongoing Victim Status of the Palestinian Arabs
As a retired trauma therapist I cannot ignore a comment made by a Palestinian Arab woman in a promotional video invitation to participate in the May 15th Nakba Day ceremony about which I wrote here. The script has her say: Because we are still trapped in our role as victims Palestinian Arabs claim to be […]
Nakba Day for Peacemongers: A Combatants for Peace Oxymoron
Come on Jews! Let us join in the Palestinian Nakba Day ceremony! After all, we were invited by the NGO Combatants for Peace. Must mean that this is another step along the path toward peace between Jews and Palestinian Arabs. After all, they are combatants FOR PEACE, no? If we listen closely enough, we can […]
Caroline Glick: So Much Noise Over 7 Knesset Seats
Journalist Caroline Glick has made Yamina Party head Naftali Bennett a kind of villain in the coalition-forming crisis. It appears to me that she is following a script written by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu even though she once ran on a political party list headed by Bennett. How is one to make sense of this? […]
The Present: Oscar-Worthy Victimhood
It is said that history is written by the victors. That is apparently not always true. When ‘narrative’ stands in for history, history can be revised and written by the vanquished. And, accordingly, we have the movie, The Present, a Palestinian narrative in cinematic form. Having already won several prizes, it is a candidate in […]