60 Minutes On The Steps Outside Of Kiryat Arba
I went to Kiryat Arba for the Passover Seder this year and I want to tell you something about my visit. Kiryat Arba is a town of about 8000 Jews, founded in 1968, just one year after Judea and Samaria were liberated from twenty years of Jordanian occupation. It is on the outskirts of Hebron, […]
Don’t pretend to be surprised Arabs crossed the Gaza border fence
The image of the anticipated thousands of Arabs walking across the Gaza border on the eve of Passover is just too ironic for words. And about the test balloons they sent over this past week — the four separate cases of Arab infiltrators crossing over from Gaza into Israel — do not believe army or […]
(Second) Partition Plan Made Simple
Once upon a time, there was a huge piece of land that was taken under wing by arrogant European has-been empires when they successfully destroyed a rival empire. They divvied up the land and told the world they would hold it in trust for the indigenous peoples of those regions.One of these was named the […]
Dear Editor: Would you call Quebec a country?
A medical journal turned the Palestinian Authority into a country when it never was and still is not a country. On March 11, two days after I published a brief post about that, I sent an email to the journal editor with a copy to the corresponding author of the article. Here is the letter. […]
Kfar Vradim Wants To Stay Jewish! The Nerve!
Horrified that rather than sell plots to Arabs, Kfar Vradim council shut down expansion plans for their town? For some strange reason, there was a rather low key reaction to this news. Some social media shares of the few articles published, but nothing earth shattering. Yes, there were the regular cries of apartheid. And the […]
“Palestine” Becomes A Country Without Much Effort At All
Pro-Palestinian propaganda need not be shouted out from the rooftops or blatantly reverberate on the social media. Even a seemingly innocuous medical article that says nothing at all about Israel can become an effective propaganda tool when people are lazy, naive, do not care, or otherwise give in to the out-and-out manipulations of those who […]
Group Psychoanalysis for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs — Part 3
In his recently published article, psychotherapist Paul Solomon showed that the irredentist Palestinian Arabs are engaging in a Holy War to oust the Jews from Israel and how the Jews are paranoid for thinking that the Arabs want them gone and intransigent for not making conciliatory moves for peace. Then he moves on to discuss […]
Group Psychoanalysis for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs — Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I critiqued the conclusion of a recently published paper by psychotherapist Paul Solomon. He discusses how group psychoanalysis can help us understand the itchy persistence of the conflict between Israeli Jews and those Arabs-who-now-like-to-call-themselves-Palestinians. . . . And how to resolve it! Let us now go to the beginning […]
Group Psychoanalysis For Israeli Jews And Palestinian Arabs — Part 1
Can theories of psychoanalysis help us understand the Israeli-“Palestinian” conflict? Can they offer us new ways to resolve the conflict? Psychotherapist Paul Solomon would answer in the affirmative. He recently published an article in the journal, Psychotherapy and Politics International. Entitled, “Israel/Palestine: Roadblocks to Negotiation,” it relates to the political cultures of Israel and the […]
Bashing Israel In A Linguistics Paper Without Being Noam Chomsky
What can I say! It looks like every topic of scholastic endeavour can be used to vilify Israel. Who cares if the work makes sense? The main thing is to make Israel look bad. How can you make something normal into something pathological? Easy. Watch! The paper is called “The Changing of Arabic Terminology in […]