2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Amir Kochavi: A Holocaust Remembrance Day speech is not the time to be politically divisive April 27, 2025 Sherry Oz No Comments Hod Hasharon’s mayor, Amir Kochavi, gave a Holocaust Remembrance Day speech that drew praise from Israeli Arab anti-Israeli Member of the Israeli Knesset Ahmed Tibi. That in itself should raise…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Victory and Resilience alongside Despair: Passover 2025 April 16, 2025 Sherry Oz No Comments Count the number of Passover Seders held this year in Israel and the Diaspora (and the latter get two, one for each side of the family) and that is a…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Israel’s “Sophie’s Choice” hostage deal would drive anyone to drink January 8, 2025 Sherry Oz No Comments In American author William Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, Sophie was forced, at Auschwitz, to choose which of her two children would be sent to the gas chamber and which would…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events This is what Israelis should be arguing about. September 3, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments My bias is showing here. I believe that all the demonstrations in Israel insisting that the government accept a deal NOW, accept ceasefire NOW are working against the better interests…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Please tell me how a general strike makes sense. September 1, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments It took me till the end of writing this article for me to finally see what this strike could have been good for. I am telling you this up front…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events The poll that gets quoted and the poll that does not July 12, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Please tell me what is wrong with my post May 20, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments Facebook provided no option for me to appeal their decision. If you tell me my post does violate community standards, I will accept the decision without further fuss. * *…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Fateful days: the same Netanyahu, the same security system – they don’t think long term April 13, 2024 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events UNSC Resolution 2720: Been here, done that December 24, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…
2023-24 War against Hamas and Hezbollah Current Events Israel-Hamas War, Part V: An Israeli horror film and the hostages November 22, 2023 Sherry Oz No Comments 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…