Well, it looks like my recent blog post on How Israel Can Become a Better Democracy is really making some waves. (Just kidding, but the coincidence is a bit strange). I just read that the selection process for Supreme Court judges was just changed to make it less subject to poltics. The selection committee is [...]

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 [...]

About a month ago, we were driving on highway 60 in Jerusalem towards Pisgat Ze’ev, and we saw in the other direction that there were absolutely no cars coming from the other direction. I said to Adina that it is probably a חפץ חשוד (suspicious object - a suitcase or bag that might be a [...]

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”.

I happened across an article titled Jerusalem: whose very own and golden city? (which seems to be a plagiarized copy of the same article by Philippe Rekacewicz and Dominique Vidal in Le Monde diplomatique). Although the agenda of the article is clear, I would like to examine a small section of it, drawing on my [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This morning, the host of my favorite Israeli morning radio show (Yedidya Me’ir on Radio Kol Chai) begain with the following:
“The big news of the day is summarized by the headline in the newspaper Maariv: ???? ????, ???? ?? (A President Goes, a President Comes). No, we are not talking about President Katzav. Rather, the [...]

Today, the Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, has showed the world his true colors — that the unity of Israel is unimportant to him. Olmert said:
“Israel’s victory in Lebanon will give a new momentum to complete the disengagement from the Palestinians by evacuating most settlements in Judea and Samaria.” (Ynetnews)
At a time when Israel [...]

The unanswered questions continue to pile up regarding the Qana incident. I am not saying that it definitely is not Israel’s fault, nor am I saying that the deaths of children and civilians is anything but tragic…however, some things definitely need to be answered before I will be convinced that part or all of this [...]