An online acquaintance recently posted a link on Facebook to an article Myths And Facts On U.S.-Israel Diplomatic Row. In it, the anonymous author seeks to state for the record what the myths and facts are regarding the recent diplomatic tension between Israel and the US. I responded that I think that it is laughable [...]

Read this article by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post – Israel’s Arab Cheerleaders (here is an excerpt): As the Arabs line up behind Israel, the Obama administration is operating under the delusion that the Iranians will be convinced to give up their nuclear program if Israel destroys its communities in Judea and Samaria. According [...]

More good news related to Judicial reforms in Israel (something that I am a big fan of): The government on Sunday approved Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann’s controversial proposal to amend the Basic Law on the Judiciary in order to limit the Supreme Court’s power… Friedmann’s proposal would only allow the Supreme Court to strike down [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]