Israel Diaries

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Hostage Naama Levy is a peace activist

You know her — the one who was dragged by the hair from the back of a jeep to the back seat. Hear her talk at a Hands of Peace event. * * * * * This is Ayala Levy Shahar, mother of 19-year-old Naama Levy, one of the hostages in the video released yesterday. […]

Gazan orphans moved to the PA: Who can object to that?

In a move that received little attention, Israel moved children from an orphanage in Gaza to Bethlehem, needing, of course, to drive through Israel and Jerusalem to get them there. In response, an Israeli NGO, Choosing Life, started a petition called: If Germany wants Gaza’s orphans to be looked after, let Germany take them in. […]

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 […]

Lauren Wolfe: Ghettos, Victim Mentality, and Hatred

Wolfe thinks it is brave and taboo-breaking to call Gaza a ghetto and accuses Israel of being perpetrators stuck in our own victimhood. That taboo was broken decades ago and she is either ignorant of, or ignores, the fact that victims have three choices. Oct 7th is a watershed for Israel. Apparently, also for American […]

Israel-Hamas War VII: We thought we could be friends

Still on the lookout for innocent Gazans — those who did not take part in the atrocities, those who did not take advantage of the openings in the fences to loot Jewish homes, those who did not cheer at the news of Jews being tortured, slaughtered, raped, abducted, those who did not hide hostages for […]

The Zikim Beach Massacre in Video

There was a mini-massacre on Zikim Beach — about 19 killed. Several news outlets have published newly released documentation showing the infiltration of Hamas terrorists onto the beach south of Ashkelon. Imshin was quick in getting up the video that have been shared on news sites plus two other videos of the event. Her source […]

Israel-Hamas War VI: The Gaza they will miss, poor souls!

What they did to themselves!! This article has a short version and a longer version. Both are stories of mourning. Gazan stories of mourning. And to both of these I add an addendum of my own. An Israeli story of mourning. Ahmed Alnaouq, 29, left Gaza four years ago and now resides in London after […]

Israel-Hamas War, Part V: An Israeli horror film and the hostages

Call it a dark sense of humour. Call it cynicism. Call it desperation. Whatever it is, Israel is pulling no stops in getting our hostages back home. Israeli authorities cannot release to the public the Hamas horror film (40-something minutes long) as it is reserved for journalists and world leaders who otherwise might “forget” that […]

War against Hamas, Part IV: An innocent Gazan citizen

Here is just one Gazan. Just one. We don’t know how many like him there are. We don’t know how many, unlike him, are praying for Israel to defeat the Hamas terrorist devil. Forever. But let us not be naive. Where there is one like this, there are more. Hear him. Believe him. I will […]

I hope this turns out not to be true

Why am I publishing it if I am hoping this is fake news? Because it fits with how we pride ourselves on having the most moral army in the world. We don’t seem to get that having a moral army gets us dead. The IDF top brass needs to listen to army legal consultants but […]