Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Firing Area 918: This is good news, but will it make a difference? May 6, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments On May 4, the day before Israel’s 74th Independence Day (Yom Haatzma’ut), the Supreme Court handed down a decision in a case that has long been awaited: the legality or…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Alternative Memorial Ceremonies and Peace Clocks: Fantastic Future? May 4, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments I hope the attendees at the 2022 Alternative Palestinian-Israeli Conjoint Memorial Ceremony finally noticed what I noticed. In advance of the event, JNS published two excellent articles that brought out…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Bennett and the Dream: A Letter to Bennett Detractors April 24, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments There are promises and there are other promises. You point out, with rage, all the promises Bennett made that he is not keeping. These include electoral promises not to sit…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Poor Mansour Abbas: Between a Rock and a Hard Place April 23, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments Or: Keeping colleagues from shooting themselves in the foot MK Mansour Abbas, head of Ra’am, the first Arab party to ever enter an Israeli coalition government as an equal partner,…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking So you want to crash the Bennett-Lapid-Ra’am Coalition…..be Careful! April 20, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments What is behind the growing pressure on Yamina and the party’s remaining loyal members to get behind calls to bring down the coalition? Who is afraid of Ra’am? Israel is…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Israeli Flag is a Provocation on Campus in Israel? April 9, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments Bar-Ilan Univerisity tweeted yesterday that, contrary to notification received by students at the end of last month, Israeli flags CAN be put up anywhere on campus, including at the student…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking So you want the coalition to fail. And then? April 7, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments I do not understand what all the jubilation is about. Last night there was a rightwing demonstration in which there was joyful anticipation of the fall of the current coalition…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking This may seem like a little thing, but it is HUGE! March 29, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments During the month of Ramadan and on Land Day, it has become customary in Israel to expect a sudden increase in terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. There is typically particular…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Israelis debate Israel: What has to change? March 23, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments The current Russia-Ukraine war is certainly a tragedy of huge proportion. However, there is another tragedy taking place at this moment — in our very own land, a tragedy that…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Administrative Detention — Not for Arabs Alone March 13, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments An administrative detention order is now being used to hold a young Jewish man against whom no evidence has been found to support the allegation that he committed a crime.…