War is an area of uncertainty; three quarters of the things on which all action in War is based are lying in a fog of uncertainty—Carl von Clausewitz There is…
“Two Entwined Red-Lines” ~IDF Intelligence Directorate on Syria, April 29, 2013 A long time ago, Israeli Prime Ministers discovered that their governments are dysfunctional. They are large and plagued with…
Desire the right Falkland Islands motto Few foreign leaders participated in Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. Most allies of the UK sent mid-range delegations; after all, few would like to be defined…
After the kingfisher’s wing has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still ~Four Quartets, Burnt Norton, pt 5, TS Eliot In the last month, a nasty…
for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: ~Ruth 1:16 “Roi Tov is…
as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven—Acts 9:3 On Friday, March 22, 2013, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu called Turkish…
Imagine Imagine that you are rich. Imagine that you form part of an international corporation which is not listed in any country and thus needs neither protocols nor laws. You…
The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.—Rosa Parks I apologize to my American readers for this short introduction; yet,…
if thou refuse to let my people go, behold —Exodus 10:4 “Am I my brother’s keeper?” “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain asked God after killing his brother Abel. Probably…
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ~Jacob Bronowski In the aftermath of the elections in Israel, only one person is laughing hard. On…
Daphni Leef invited to visit the Court the day after the elections Social protests have defined Israeli reality since 2011, to the extent that Netanyahu called for the upcoming early elections. The…
Lieberman Indictment Exposes Israel as a Police State The scene seems taken from a John Le Carré book. The Israeli Ambassador to Belarus wanted to give valuable information to his…
Imagine that you are a British soldier in October 1942, on the eve of the Second Battle of El Alamein, northern Egypt. The war has been going on for years;…
“This is the beginning of a third Palestinian Intifada, which is erupting from the heart of Hebron and will spread to all of Palestine.”* * * * One must be…
Armed IDF Soldiers Run Away from Stone-Throwing Palestinians The picture at the right is so unbelievable that I must remark that the event has been acknowledged by an “IDF senior…
“Warning! This is illegally occupied land” In the early hours of Sunday, December 9, 2012, a group of Jews living in Sheikh Jarrah, a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem…
Will Israel force a Palestinian Exodus? Safed, 1947 The device was useless. The mortar-variant improvised by the Mikveh Israel agricultural school had been provided to the Palmach troops in Safed and Jerusalem;…
France and UK to recall their ambassadors in Tel Aviv The Unbearable Confusion of an Undeclared War In the early hours of Monday, December 3, 2012, the dust raised by…
He said “the difference between an intelligent and a smart person is… The Hebrew media reports on Operation Pillar of Cloud after it ended on November 21, 2012, were truly…
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