Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Electoral Reform: Benevolent Dictatorship Needs Update May 19, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments Interesting how my computer updates all the time whether I want it to or not and the Israeli government, with an outdated electoral system that does not really work anymore,…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Justin Amler: It’s wonderful to be a Jew on Yom Haatzmaut May 14, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments Thoughts on Yom Haatzmaut: I have a Jewish heart inside – a heart that beats to a 4000 year old rhythm. Whether I’m in Melbourne or in Jerusalem or in…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking HaTikva: Jewish Hope or Jewish Despair? May 14, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments If every country has the right to select its own anthem and vote the anthem into law as is customary to do, then Israel has the same inalienable right to…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Nakba: Why Do You Let THAT Define You? May 9, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments I wonder about a “People” that is willing, from the get-go, to define themselves as a failure: The Nakba is, for the Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians, their defining…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Two State Solution: Have I Lost My Marbles? May 7, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments I raised a few eyebrows when I posted a link to Bassem Eid’s new article, saying I endorse it. Friends wondered what had happened to me since I generally raise…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Holocaust Remembrance Day – New Meaning May 6, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments What better way to commemorate our historic victimhood than by doing something that shows we are no longer victims! This year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the IDF discovered the second…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Why Should You Not Support Israel’s Right to Exist April 29, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments I’m so sick of hearing all the reasons why people should support Israel’s right to exist. Things like this, for example: Israel does so much good around the world. The…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking UNESCO: The Eiffel Tower is a Sacred Muslim Site April 18, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments AMMAN, 18 April 2035 – the Jordan Daily News triumphantly proclaims that Item 19 of the 227th Session of the UNESCO Executive Board approved the resolution reaffirming that Burj Hadid…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Jewish-Arab Pro-Peace Activism in Public Spaces April 16, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments Into what kind of environment has Stav Shaffir agreed to put herself when she addresses the April 18, 2016 JStreet Gala event? As a Labour Party Member of Knesset, she…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Watch Your Language, Ynetnews! April 13, 2016 Sherry Oz No Comments As we wage war against the demonization of Israel, it is important that at least Israeli newspapers and news sites stop using language that plays into the hands of our…