The Media Reacts One Way to Israel and Another to Hamas

I posted a short Note on Substack: “How does Bibi expect to defeat Hamas if he is negotiating with Hamas?” As I was typing it, a missile alert sounded in southern Israel. Militants in Gaza had launched two rockets. I added that to the Note. I was frustrated. Then came a comment from Mike: “Israeli […]

Amir Kochavi: A Holocaust Remembrance Day speech is not the time to be politically divisive

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 eyebrows. After all, Tibi has eulogized terrorists from the Knesset podium and has made speeches to students in the Palestinian Authority praising the “martyrs,” meaning […]

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, […]

We care for their babies but where are ours?

Call me inhumane. Call me cruel. But I am sorry – this does not make me feel pride. It is one thing to open a humanitarian corrider even at the expense of having to hold off the fighting for 4 hours, letting Hamas do whatever they need to do to regroup during that time. It […]

Haredi soldiers kick PA Arabs: Questions unasked, unanswered

Whether civilians or soldiers are involved, the first reaction of some of our leaders who hear about Jewish violence against Palestinian Arabs in Judea-Samaria is to malign the Jews .The latest incident involves Haredi soldiers in the unit called Netzach Yehuda (Judah’s Eternal Battalion) and, immediately upon seeing a supposedly incriminating video, Rav-Aluf Aviv Kochavi, […]