Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking “Extending Our Sovereignty” in one corner Versus “Divorce” in the other May 14, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments It looks like the incoming government might actually move toward a July declaration of sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. With this idea…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking You Cannot Divorce an Octopus Until You Release Its Tentacles May 12, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments Anyone who looks at the map of Judea & Samaria can see that it can be compared to an octopus that has its tentacles all in a dither. Therefore, when…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking When Israel’s Supreme Court Sees itself as Therapist May 7, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments Sometimes you can find the damndest things when you read court protocols. While preparing an article on MK Ofir Katz’s (Likud) proposed amendments to the law prohibiting the candidature for…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Happy Independence Day — If You Celebrate It May 3, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments In what other country in the world would you find a major university qualifying their Independence Day greeting to students? What does that little “if you celebrate it” do to…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking LOL — Calling Hebron Occupied and then Showing the 97% that is not. April 25, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments News of the impending appropriation of a few meters of land, the few meters required to build an accessiblity elevator to the Cave of the Patriarchs, has resulted in the…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Journalists Play “Fish” With the News April 22, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments I once thought that journalists and media outlets were interested in reporting on the news-as-it-is and not the news-as-they-want-it-to-be. Silly me! Here is a recent fishing expedition brought to our…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Is Israeli Democracy in Danger? April 20, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments Horrified Israeli voters on the left shout and curse at those of us on the right, telling us that Bibi is destroying Israeli democracy. They refuse to consider that perhaps…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Everyone Knows we need Electoral Reform… So? April 10, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments As a result of our current national political debacle, former Haifa mayor, Yona Yahav, wrote a letter to the editor of Haaretz in which he calls for electoral reform. He…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Idan Eretz Shows Us Behind-the-Scenes Fake Media in Action April 8, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments In a Tweet, Idan Eretz showed us how fake media works. Well, sometimes, at least. I am sure this is not the only time this has happened. Translation below the…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking The Infection We Seem Unable to Get Over April 2, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments Israeli society has not yet seen the need for applying Israeli ingenuity to serious study of the Please-like-us virus. At the close of the March 31 episode of Uvda, her…