Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Masafer Yatta: How to Get the Most Punch out of B’Tselem Lies July 18, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments It’s kind-of funny. It doesn’t matter what happens in Masafer Yatta, the area of the South Hebron Hills that has been in the news for almost a solid year. Whatever…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking Don’t worry, Mr President. There are no surprises here. Signed: Israel July 16, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments In a ynetnews report of the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Lapid and USA President Biden, the latter is quoted as having said: “Don’t surprise us,” when it comes to…
Links My Work Elsewhere Jerusalem Day 2022: One Day — Two Publications June 1, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments I am proud to have begun writing for TPS, an Israeli news service from which news websites around the world can pick up and publish articles. I am curious about…
Current Events First-Hand and Investigative Why Chomesh? What is so special about Chomesh? May 24, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments Chomesh in the news: They take it down. A yeshiva goes up. They take it down. They put it up again. And they threaten to take it back down again.…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking What Really Happened at Shireen Abu-Akleh’s Funeral and Why May 14, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments Here is the inflamatory video from Shireen Abu-Akleh’s funeral that has the world up in arms (once more) against Israel. Watch the video and then read below to know what…
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 Keeping Up With Our MKs Education Reform: A Leftist Plot? April 28, 2022 Sherry Oz No Comments Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton proudly announced that she has embarked upon a process of reform for the educational system. She calls it a revolution. In her Facebook post she…
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,…