There comes a time when the issues become so clear, so unambiguous that men (and women) of principle have no choice but to publicly state their position on questions of the hour. To do otherwise only assists the perpetration of a travesty of justice and mocks all the values we purport to live by. What about you?
There is an anecdote about an Israeli driver who accidentally hits a sheep belonging to an Arab. The driver gets out and offers to pay for the sheep. The Arab refuses. The driver offers to pay for five sheep, for ten sheep. The Arab still refuses. “What do you want?” the frustrated driver asks. “I want that sheep,” the Arab says, pointing to the dead sheep. That is the Nakba in a nutshell. The...
Needed Palestinian Self-Criticism If the Palestinians and the Arab countries had accepted the partition plan, the Arab state of Falastin would have been established in 1948 and there would have been no refugee problem. It was not the establishment of the State of Israel that created the refugee problem, but rather the fact that the Arabs went to war against the establishment of a Jewish state in part of Palestine. Israelis seeking reconciliation may...
Only part of the story was the Maccabees fight for getting the Greeks out of Israel, and the cleansing and dedication of the Temple. The Chanukah Story was also about a civil war amongst the Jews. Judah and the boys were fighting other Jews who had turned away from their faith by combining it with Greek/Hellenistic practices....
What follows is an edited version of a speech delivered by historian Andrew Roberts to the Friends of Israel Initiative in the British House of Commons on July 19, published in the National Post · Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 From Morocco to Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea to Aden, the 5.25 million square miles of territory belonging to members of the Arab League is home to over 330 million people, whereas Israel covers only...
] Every other Wednesday, except for festivals and High Holy-days, an anti-Zionist group called ASHamed Jews meets in an upstairs room in the Groucho Club in Soho to dissociate itself from Israel, urge the boycotting of Israeli goods, and otherwise demonstrate a humanity...
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
I used to. There isn’t a demonstration connected to Eretz Israel that some representive of our family hasn’t participated it, at least since our return in 1992. The reason I personally no longer participate stems from two separate reasons. The first is self evident. It is a waste of time. Over two hundred and fifty thousand people crowded around the Israeli Kenesset building on the eve of the vote in favour of the Oslo...
My Muslim background left me unprepared for this shocking discovery. Growing up in Kuwait, I had the best of everything. My father owned a...
The 14 Lies Blocking Peace in the Middle East By: Steven Plaut Israel’s enemies around the world have poisoned the debate with their smoke and mirrors. If a Martian were suddenly to land on earth and start listening to and reading the mainstream media, he would form the impression that the entire Middle East conflict were due to Israel building some settlements...
