Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Defending Israel’s Right to Exist — ad nauseum June 14, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Time to just stop the merry-go-round and get off! Just get off! Stop defending Israel’s right to exist! Pro-Zionist / anti-Zionist / philosemite / antisemite / Islamophile / Islamophobe /…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Elia Dakwar, Israeli Christian Critiques Israeli Hasbara June 11, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Israeli Hasbara is lacking in one thing: courage, courage, courage — the courage to pick up the gauntlet and to begin some real research. I am an Israeli citizen. I…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking This is who we Israelis are. Think whatever you want, but this is us. June 6, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments I cannot count how many times I have been told that Israel teaches its children to hate Arabs. And then the area that has seen more missiles, whether propelled by…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking How Is Israel Like Avis Rent-A-Car? June 4, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments What have Israel and Avis car rentals got in common? Watch this video and see if you get the association that came to me: https://www.facebook.com/yoel.oz/videos/10100102195721277/ In 1962, Avis was losing…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Kaddish? Confessions of a Jew who is not sad Hamasniks are dead May 18, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments I do not mourn the Gazans killed since they began their Great Return March about six weeks ago. If that makes me cold-hearted and a bad person so be it.…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Reuters almost got it right about Gaza this time May 8, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments From the title and through the reporting, this is the closest I have seen a major news outlet actually put together a balanced article even tangentially related to Israel in…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking This is what the New York Times should be doing! May 5, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments The New York Times (NYT) and other major papers could benefit readers by taking an example from the British medical journal, The Lancet. Let us look at the difference between…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Fadi is Marching in Gaza for His Kids April 29, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments The New York Times gave space to Fadi Abu Shammalah. He wrote an opinion piece called, Why I March in Gaza. First of all, let us look at who Abu…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Here is why the PA does not care about Palestinians killed in Syria April 27, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments If Jews are in trouble anywhere in the world, Israel will do what it can to save them. The Entebbe rescue is only one such example. When Americans were trapped…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Don’t pretend to be surprised Arabs crossed the Gaza border fence March 29, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…