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.
Some people love optical illusions. Some people just find them frustrating and a useless waste of time and energy. As I struggled to see the circles in the Coffer Illusion, I could not help but find an association between optical illusions, in general, and political views. I will only relate to Israel as that is…
Lately, consumers of English language news are reading that most Israelis now support a hostage deal over continuing military action against Hamas in Gaza. For example, the most widely read English-language Israeli website, Times of Israel, proclaims in its headline: Two-thirds of Israelis back hostage deal over continuing war in Gaza – poll and this…
Reporting on her call to German citizens to leave Lebanon, news articles in Israel and abroad quoted an “X” post attributed to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock: With every rocket across the Blue Line between #Lebanon & #Israel, the danger grows that a miscalculation could trigger a hot war from one moment to the next….
Hezbollah published a nine-minute videoclip of drone images taken over Haifa, confirmed as such by the IDF. The images are sharp and anyone familiar with the city and its environs can easily pick out the streets, the shopping centers, the homes, and perhaps some people will even recognize their cars driving from somewhere to somewhere…
Some members of the left-wing Kaplan Force (כוח קפלן), a movement that has been trying to bring down the Netanyahu government since its current inception are, perhaps, unlikely participants in protests organized by Tsav 9. Tsav 9, whose motto is: “no humanitarian aid until the last of the hostages returns home,” was sanctioned by the…
On the morning of our Shavuot holiday, I was happily sitting at my crafts table doing some macrame and listening to a lecture by Einat Wilf on Zionism and anti-Zionism (to be written up at some later time). My mood was suddenly disrupted by red alerts flashing across the top of my smartphone screen along…
Perhaps coincident with growing Israeli-Greek cooperation in various domains, the Greek government arrested 28 students at the Athens Law School on May 14, and is set to deport nine of these who are non-Greek Europeans, as reported in Greek City Times. It is a move celebrated by hundreds of thousands of social media audiences. What…
What happened in the UN while Israel was reeling with the shock of the Oct 7 atrocities committed by Hamas and either joined by, or merely cheered on by, Gazan civilians? I will be generous and say that the whole world was reeling from the images that Hamas proudly released to the virtual space that…
I bring you a video of a demonstration in Toronto that tops everything I have seen until now. It took place on Saturday, May 25th somewhere in the University of Toronto vicinity. The video popped up in my “X” feed. It was posted by Leviathan, an “X” account whose owner follows radical and antisemitic activities…
Like many others, I shared a video of Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan carrying a card saying, “The Butcher of Iran will not be missed.” Perhaps part of the reason the video did not arouse my suspicion is because I agreed with the act, I believed Erdan the kind of person who would…
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