Still calling for “Make love not war” after Oct 7th
I find it instructive to see what people posted on their social media before Oct 7th and just after Oct 7th. I decided to look at Facebook posts for speakers at this year’s conjoint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony, a project of Combatants for Peace and the Family Circle. I vehemently object to events such as […]
The court gave him back his teaching certificate. What did the students give him?
Meir Baruchin was fired from his teaching job in Rishon LeZion, and then fired again from his job at a school in Petach Tikva. The court said he could go back to the classroom. That announcement quite demoralized me. How students greeted him upon his arrival the first day he was back lifted my spirits: […]
Gazan journalists: A sad story and a ridiculous story
Some people seem to think that journalists are targeted by the IDF. Here are two stories about that. And some explanation about the situations in which they took place — a death, in one instance, and an injury, in the other. The sad story – journalist killed in her home Way back on October 10, […]
Embedded Gazan Journalists II: Jody Foster movie comes to mind
But once they crossed the fence….? In a previous article (here), I critiqued a piece on the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) website in which they began by rejecting the claims of the first Honest Reporting exposé regarding possible prior knowledge on the part of Gazan journalists of the impending violation of the 2014 ceasefire between […]
We need Doron and Captain Ayub right now
Maybe someone else has already thought of this and maybe I’m the first one. In any case, do you think this would work? THE AIM: How to prevent Hamas terrorists from stealing humanitarian aid and doing Israel a favour at the same time. THE PROBLEM: Hamas continues to hijack aid trucks, the UN continues to […]
IDF Reservists say: Just #shut_up
There is a new social media campaign called: “If you don’t have a message of unity, just #shut_up.” IDF reservists put out a statement that I translate for you here. It is followed by a short compilation of a number of reserve soldiers in the field telling the media to stop putting out news items […]
Israel-Hamas War X: Where are those Innocent Gazans?
I’m still waiting for someone to point me to truly innocent Gazans, those who, while maybe not happy about it, are willing to “let” Israel live alongside it as a sovereign Jewish state. You know, the ones who reject Hamas ideology. I doubt an innocent civilian Gazan is to be found in the crowd cheering […]
The Gaza Genocide as committed by Israel
Reuters, certainly not a mouthpiece for Israel, published a condensed summary of Gaza Strip history. Let me just condense that a bit more for your reading ease. For some, the word, genocide, has been associated with Israel for years. Let us look at the Reuters‘ summary of Gazan history and see if there is evidence […]
Masha Gessen, this is just wicked
Phyllis Chesler referred to Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen as a “popular…prize-winning public intellectual.” Gessen has about 126K followers on “X” and the post linking to the article under examination here was viewed 775.4K times at this writing. If her* reach was not this broad, I might have ignored this piece. But I cannot just give […]
UNSC Resolution 2720: Been here, done that
Yesterday, Jewish Press published the full text of UNSC Resolution 2720 in which the Council called for: … increased humanitarian aid, humanitarian “pauses”, unconditional release of all hostages being held by Hamas, and Red Cross access to those hostages to determine their medical status and to provide them with medical care. The United States and […]