What images does “humanitarian crisis” conjure in your mind? For me, it’s the stories of the siege of Leningrad during WWII, which some of my family members experienced first-hand.
The Hamas and its supporters (especially in the media) would like us to believe that something of the sorts is happening in Gaza. Then, last week, the [...]
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Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza – Gourmet Videos
If it weren`t so sad..
Chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels is credited with saying that if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. His dubious success must be the inspiration behind Hamas-proxy “peace activists““ attempt to deliver “humanitarian aid,“ while in search of enough blood to cause a PR [...]
Gaza Flotilla – Just the Facts
As the world condemns Israel for exercising its right to self-defense in boarding the so-called Free Gaza flotilla, three claims are made:
1. Israel has violated the international law by boarding peaceful ships in international waters.
2. Israel ambushed the ships.
3. IDF troops used excessive force to kill peace activists.
For anyone with even a drop of intellectual [...]
Happy Birthday Israel
Today, Israel marked the Memorial Day, a day of tears, sad songs, and even sadder stories. As the siren went off at 11 AM sharp, everyone stopped whatever they were doing for a moment of silence. This is what it looked like.
Then, paradoxically, grief gave way to joy as the Memorial Day turned into the [...]
The Israeli Hospital in Haiti – even CNN noticed
The Israeli medical team in Haiti must be REALLY amazing to have drawn praise even from the CNN.
You’ve got to see it to believe it. It is not going to be repeated any time soon, unless G-d forbid another major disaster strikes for Israelis to run helping. I guess as far as CNN is concerned [...]
The Point of Divergence
In the wake of the recent Leib Tropper scandal, I have read quite a lot about his Eternal Jewish Family and its ongoing battle against Modern Orthodox and Religious Zionist conversions in the US and in Israel. While many bloggers view it as a power struggle, I think that the political differences are an extension [...]
TSA Security Measures
When I was a kid back in Russia, my family would spend all our summer vacations in Yalta, a seaside resort on the Black Sea. One year, as we were driving to the airport for our flight back home, we were stopped by the police and diverted into the local botanical gardens. Together with several [...]
The Gilad Shalit Deal as a Mirror of the Israeli Society
The discourse over the anticipated deal with Hamas to free Gilad Shalit has become the center of Israel’s public agenda in recent weeks. Although I oppose the release of some one thousand terrorists, which will only serve to whet Hamas’s appetite and encourage additional kidnappings, the very fact that the Israeli government would even consider [...]
The financial sense of aliyah
This week, our close friends are coming on a pilot trip in preparation for their planned aliyah in the summer. Although the move will involve many challenges, there is one thing they’ll be glad to leave behind – spending over one half of their annual income on kids’ education.
While visiting family in the US in [...]
Is Israel a High Trust Society?
Lately, I’ve been reading about Francis Fukuyama’s idea of social trust. Fukuyama argues that the degree of social trust between people (beyond family or immediate social networks) in a society has sweeping consequences on its economic prosperity. To demonstrate this, Fukuyama compares countries with high levels of social trust, such as Japan, Germany, and the [...]
