Haifa City Council, mayor, refuse to dismiss Sally Abed, terror supporter
Haifa, a city that prides itself on peaceful and respectful relations between Arabs and Jews, has been seeing demonstrations since Oct 7th that challenge this. Granted, there have been clashes in the past, but the country is now fighting for its life and one could expect that citizens would rally together when we are all […]
The Coffer Illusion and waking up after Oct 7th
Some people love optical illusions. Some people just find them frustrating and a useless waste of time and energy. As I struggled to see the circles in the Coffer Illusion, I could not help but find an association between optical illusions, in general, and political views. I will only relate to Israel as that is […]
The poll that gets quoted and the poll that does not
Lately, consumers of English language news are reading that most Israelis now support a hostage deal over continuing military action against Hamas in Gaza. For example, the most widely read English-language Israeli website, Times of Israel, proclaims in its headline: Two-thirds of Israelis back hostage deal over continuing war in Gaza – poll and this […]
Letter from Company Commander in Gaza: Don’t succumb to American dictates
Upon the arrival in Israel of United States Secretary of State Blinkin last week, the commander of a reserve company serving in the Gaza Strip wrote a letter to Reut Ben Haim, the chairperson of the Order 9 movement (also called Tsav 9) that is blocking passage of trucks into Gaza in a fight against […]
Israeli-Arab Nas Daily changed by Oct 7. Perhaps.
In a previous article on the responses of leftist Israeli NGOs to Oct 7th, I promised to return to something on “another day.” That day is today. In that Oct 9th article, I wrote: While Nas Daily [he’s not an NGO but a person, but I chose to start with him] is a controversial figure […]
Fateful days: the same Netanyahu, the same security system – they don’t think long term
Senior diplomatic correspondent Ariel Kahana gave me permission to translate into English an article I think everyone should read and contemplate. The original Hebrew is here. We have experience dealing with deals from Shalit’s time • Although the lesson is clear, the same leadership that brought about the deal repeats the very same line • […]
He implied I couldn’t go home to Haifa when I return to Israel
A Canadian friend shared a videoclip with me. I was horrified to discover that while I was visiting family in Europe, residents of Haifa (where I live) and Tel Aviv were being evacuated. I would have thought my daughter and friends would have told me I could not go back to my home when I […]
Starving in Gaza like this girl?
There are photos making the rounds in the social media trying to demonstrate how Israel is deliberately starving the Gazan population. The first thing I do is try to determine if they are really photos from Gaza or if it is a photo taken from some other war zone and posted AS IF from Gaza. […]
Will Lauren Wolfe give me a “respectfully, FU” too?
When I read Lauren Wolfe’s latest article, Reconciling Being Jewish with the Siege of Gaza,I was enraged and I knew I was going to critique it. I intend this to be my last post on Lauren Wolfe. Actually, I was surprised to see she did not block me from her site since I already critiqued […]
Lauren Wolfe on Gaza again: Now it’s bothsidesism regarding rape
I wish she would stop giving me things to write about. Lauren Wolfe, who, last December wrote the easily debunked article that Israel deliberately targets Gazan journalists (debunked here), just wrote that it is “likely” Israeli soldiers are raping Gazan women: . . . but [she writes] reporters are unable to report from Gaza, so […]