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.
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 but was essentially ignored by the English-language press. Since the organization promises future events of this kind, it may be important…
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 in general and the hostages in particular. I bring to you a few of those who see it this way too….
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 like those who read the last page of a novel before beginning at the beginning, you might want to go there…
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 protect their people, is who is committing genocide against them. Yes, Hamas is genociding their own people. I can think of…
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 eyes of the world, damned in the eyes of the Israeli population, and, may I add, damned in our leaders’ own…
The first thing I saw onThursday evening, 1 August, after getting off the bus at UNESCO Square (in front of Haifa’s Bahai gardens), were the police cars parked on the pavement encircling the roundabout. And then, as I drew closer, it appeared to me that there may be more police officers there than protestors. Perhaps…
Haifa, a city that prides itself on peaceful and respectful relations between Arabs and Jews, has been seeing demonstrations since Oct 7th that challenge this. Granted, there have been clashes in the past, but the country is now fighting for its life and one could expect that citizens would rally together when we are all…
In contrast with many videoclips shared in the virtual space showing presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris in the worst possible light, she does come across as presidential in the under six-minute speech she gave after having met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I take issue with some of the content in her speech, but I…
There are three major issues that arose for me while writing Part I of this two-part article. Part I, that should be read first, comprises a cost-cost exercise regarding ending the Hamas-Gaza war ASAP (now) versus continuing the war and a discussion with a friend I called Molly . It is important to note that…
While a therapist, I devised a decision making tool that helped my clients sort out dilemmas and choose the alternative that best fit their values and their goals. I called it the cost-cost table because we only measure the potential costs of Alternative A versus the potential costs of Alternative B. This is different from…
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