On 14 May 1948, the day before the expiration of the British Mandate, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, declared “the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”
U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognised the new nation on the same day. Continue reading
The hidden camera scandalHow could the Likud install one thousand two hundred hidden cameras in polling booths?
Like a successful magic trick one has to puzzle at how they carried it off. With that sort of efficiency surely the new government will be able to fix the trains and the hospitals? Continue reading
Five Minutes for Israel
Left Right out?In the more than 37 years since I made aliyah I have not felt more depressed before a national election as I am today. Continue reading
Purim (and Nowruz) SameachEveryone links Christmas and Hanukkah but has anyone noticed that this year Purim and Nowruz, the Persian New Year, fall together? It seems Iran and Israel are stuck with each other. Continue reading
‘The World in 2019’ tells us what to expectNormally I read the The Economist The World in 2109 towards the end of the year. I wait until December to match prediction with actuality but I was waiting to have my car washed so I took the opportunity.
Has Israel dropped off the Economist’s radar? There was very little and what there was mostly on the upcoming elections, advanced half a year from scheduled date. I guess the crystal ball was a little blurry from the London fog.
That was in November 2018. In March 2019 things look different
9 News Australia’s Amelia Adams parachutes inWe wonder if Nine News Australia will have the grace to admit that the Israel’s New Generation review of the upcoming Israeli elections by their UK correspondent was way off-beam? Continue reading
Why watch France 24?France 24 (pronounced “France vingt-quatre”) the wholly state-owned international news and current affairs television network broadcasts in French, English, Arabic, and Spanish via satellite and cable operators around the world and apps for mobile phones. It aims to compete with leading English-language international news channels BBC World News and CNN International. With a €100 million budget each year it certainly has a shot.
It occurred to me that although France 24 (and occasionally other French media in English) generally don’t show the degree of nastiness and anti Israel advocacy of the BBC, the Guardian or the New York Times it would be a public service to keep an occasional eye on their Israel reporting. Continue reading
Psychos
Arafat Irfaiya, Palestinian suspect in brutal rape, murder of teen Ori Ansbacher will probably spend years in prison. The Palestinian Authority will pay him a healthy salary while inside as a nationalist fighter.
Look at the Arafat Irfaiya and Anthony Perkins in his signature Norman Bates role together. It is as if the real killer of a random 19-year-old woman was practising the pose for his 15 minutes of fame. Murderer, terrorist or psycho?
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What was Good Morning Britain thinking when they asked,
“There are calls for Britain to boycott this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, over Israel’s human rights record. Do you agree?”
Technically that is a “Have you stopped beating your wife?” loaded question.
Fun read. Full of anecdotal ammunition to defeat BDS idiots and other Israel haters.
