See the excellent post by Jameel @ Muqata entitled Attitude: the Oleh’s Best Friend. Here he goes through a bunch of examples that describe of how in some ways things are very messed up things are in Israel, while in others, things are getting better. In the end:
The choice to make is this; are you [...]

Israel is known as the best democracy in the Middle East. This is a true statement. Compared to all of its neighbors, the personal freedoms afforded to citizens in Israel far surpass those given to citizens in neighboring countries. However, this does not mean that Israel is perfect in this respect. Far from it. Coming [...]

Although it is not a new phenomena, I am getting more annoyed of late at the one-sided portrayal of events in Israel designed to cast Israeli as the evil, apartheid, hate-driven society that seeks to oppress the peace-loving Muslims who “just want to get along”.

If you haven’t heard, the United State’s representative to the UN, John Bolton, has submitted his resignation. He has been working for the last fifteen months in a temporary capacity, after the Senate sat on his nomination for a whole year. Bush has resubmitted his nomination, but last week, faced with a new Democratic lead [...]

I just finished watching a 40 minute show (which is currently available on YouTube) by Glenn Beck called Exposed: The Extemist Agenda (originally aired on CNN). Its focus is to publicize the threats that are being posed to the world by extremist Islam. He takes care to make it clear that this is not representative [...]

Last night was the official opening of the OU’s biennial conference, which is being held in Jerusalem for the second time ever. I saw the schedule in last week’s Torah Tidbits: they had a pre-conference Yarchei Kallah learning program, and the range of speakers and honorees was quite impressive. Except for one name that is: [...]

I recently posted a seed on Newsvine (Palestinians form human shield to protect home from Israeli air strike) which detailed the following events:

Israel located Mohammedweil Baroud, a commander in the Popular Resistance Committees in charge of firing Kassam rockets at Israel (a number of these hare fired every day, and have been over the past [...]

Arutz Sheva reported the following today:
According to a report appearing in the British Daily Telegraph, during their White House meeting this week, US President George W. Bush called upon Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to authorize the entry of 1,500 armed PA (Palestinian Authority) security forces into autonomous areas throughout Judea and Samaria.
This is based on [...]

In its (fairly complementary) review of the upcoming film Borat, Manohla Dargis writes:
That Mr. Baron Cohen plays the character’s anti-Semitism for laughs is his most radical gambit. The Anti-Defamation League, for one, has chided him, warning that some people may not be in on the joke. And a sampling of comments on blogs where you [...]

On September 23rd, an article was published in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. The original, entitled And the World was Silent (hebrew) is here. It was translated into English by a blogger named Imshin (intro, page 1, page 2, page 3). Here is a quote from the first page of the article, giving a [...]