Do we, as Israelis, want to tie our survival to the USA? Or any other great power, like China for example? I don’t think so.
If there are symptoms of antisemitism, it's impossible that it's isolated; the community must also possess the hate to some extent.
By JoeSettler
Like Ariel Sharon, Naftali Bennett lied and cheated his voters, but technically, what he did didn't break the rules of Israeli democracy.
Americans who wondered how this could happen in Europe are now seeing it at home.
For the Jew-hater, everything bad, personal and political, can be explained with reference to the Jews. Facts and logical reasoning are irrelevant; indeed, the more unbelievable antisemitic beliefs may appear, the more this confirms their truth in the mind of the believer.
Following HRW expansion of the term’s application, things that are Apartheid now include lawn maintenance and jelly-filled donuts.
oThe NYT published another anti-Israel op-ed that justifies the recent pogroms against Jews by Israeli Arabs as a natural reaction to being second-class citizens,
By Paul Gherkin
47 Israelis were killed by Arab terrorists during Trump’s term, the lowest tally in any four year span going back decades. Enter President Joe Biden in 2021, and...
I know I will probably be processing this experience for a while to come, but one lesson that is already apparent to me is that Israelis are amazingly tough and resilient people.
Long ago, I became a believer in the "You can't fix stupid" movement. Intelligence is not something that you can control. It is an innate part of your being. Stupidity, however, can be cured by education. So, what it comes down to is accepting that some people don't want to be educated. Some refuse to see Israel as it really is.
The attackers find strength in numbers, they see that they have the Left on their side, they are riled up by thousands of lies about Israel by speaker after speaker and tweet after tweet
Yair Lapid has only one week left to put together a governing coalition. He spent this week inking deals with parties that everyone already knew were with him.
Awawdeh said after posting bail that he does not regret attacking a defenseless Jew and would happily do it again.
He met his end in a tunnel that IAF jets pounded with bombs the Thursday night before last, along with six other Palestinian toddlers in their twenties
Do we, as Israelis, want to tie our survival to the USA? Or any other great power, like China for example? I don’t think so.
The Biden administration is going back to the same old policies of propping up the terrorists. And the first thing you need to do when propping up the terrorists is giving them some leverage. The leverage of terrorists is terrorism.
By Fred Maroun
Just like those who did not stand with Israel in previous Israel-Gaza wars, those who did not stand with Israel this time will have blood on their hands.
By Forest Rain
HOME is the place where your FAMILY is. That’s why, in Israel, family extends beyond the walls of our private homes to include strangers – they are just family members we haven’t met yet.
By JoeSettler
Didn't Progressive Jews explain often enough that it's OK to hate Israel, and that doesn't make one an anti-Semite?
While we were cleared to leave the mamad 10 minutes after the siren ended, we continued to sit there long after, trying to process what had just occurred.
A few days into the conflict, it was announced that Naftali Bennett was no longer willing to join a coalition with the left-wing and Arab parties.
I see the continued existence of a Jewish state of Israel as a fundamental imperative. But if coexistence is impossible, and if divesting of the territories containing most of the Arabs is also impossible, what is the alternative?
"All the unrest you have experienced this week is merely anti-Zionist, and you may therefore unburden yourselves of the anxiety over antisemitism.”
It seems that we always act the same: retaliate in a measured way, being very careful to keep civilian damage to a minimum, after which we are pilloried by the UN, the EU, and the “human rights” NGOs, regardless of that fact. We don’t destroy Hamas, we simply “mow the grass” every few years. We keep supplying Gaza with water and electricity...Is this the best our government can do, we ask?
Ari talks about the holidays of Shavuot and Yom Kippur, the Shofar that connects the two holidays, and the indigenous people of the Land of Israel.
In the past one hundred years, nothing has changed except for the defendant.
Israel hasn't figured out how to resolve the problem. But neither has anyone else in the world.
By Forest Rain
Children’s thoughts about colors should not be dictated by a terrorist organization. Children should be free to play outside, free to walk from their home to visit a friend, without having to worry about where the closest bomb shelter is.
A man says he is a woman or a woman says she is a man and we are off and running to assist them in their hormone therapy and body mutilation. Does this make sense to you? Scientific sense?
Hebron Day was celebrated in the City of Abraham with festivities and a special conference.
Israeli Arabs continue to riot and attack Jews and Jewish religious buildings throughout the country. The police refuse to deal with it in any meaningful way.
By Jeff Dunetz
Thanks to Moshe Dayan, the most sacred site in all of Judaism is off-limits.
Once again, yet again, it is time to make it very clear to our enemies that the choice is theirs. They can live with us in peace, or they will know no peace.
There is absolutely no reason to think that the lands that Arabs now claim ownership for in Sheikh Jarrah were originally owned by Arabs
By Forest Rain
Today Israel is a land of freedom for all – unless you are Jewish. On the Temple Mount, the holiest place in the world for the Jewish people, Jews are not allowed to pray.
Is it the end of the Gates Foundation and its tyranny?
Israel is not a large country and it can’t afford have several autonomous enclaves that don’t consider themselves part of the state. The lack of respect for the laws made by the national government is corrosive
By Batya Medad
That nasty term hides/denies how most Jewish immigrants struggled in their early decades in America.
By Jeff Dunetz
ANY Muslim, Christian, or Jew who denies that Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people is denying the scripture of their own faith.
The security forces are baffled… he doesn’t fit the perfect description!
I don’t know anyone who speaks of making Aliyah out of guilt and shame. Why would anyone want to move to a place where the people are judgmental and obnoxious?
We have mentioned the overall incompetence of the Israeli police numerous times in the past, but this is a pretty egregious example.
Margon’s mantra for human rights is cheering the destruction of Israel.
Biden's White House embraces the 20th anniversary of the infamous and antisemitic UN Durban conference. Not even Obama supported this farce. Pres. Obama with Biden as his VP boycotted the 10th conference
Governor Andrew Cuomo is many things: a mass murderer, a sexual predator, and a sore loser.
So I am not against having this event every Lag B’Omer. I am only against having crowds of this magnitude there. The chances of a tragedy like this happening again can be avoided or at least minimized.
What does it feel like to be targeted, to live with sirens and explosions, ruined homes and death?
The type of things that one thinks about as a religious Jew in a shtetl or a small community are not the type of things that one has to think about as part of an entire country.
None of the characteristics of South African apartheid can reasonably be applied to Israel. Everyone who knows anything about apartheid South Africa and Israel knows that. There is simply no resemblance
Since the Jews were in Egypt, there has been Jew-hatred. The entire time, the Jew-haters justified their hate with reasons that sounded reasonable to that generation. Pharaoh said Jews would be a fifth column. Haman said Jews didn't respect the King's laws. Antiochus said the Jews refused to assimilate. Christians said Jews killed their god. […]
“Let me say it again: JEWS. PRAYING. You can just feel the existential threat.”
By JoeSettler
Netanyahu's actions yesterday were important messages to a whole slew of people. Were they smart enough to understand them?
It Is the only Antidote to Anti-Zionism.
Last week, Prime Minister Netanyahu suffered what seemed like a severe political setback. The parties seeking to replace him, with the support of the Arab Ra'am party, formed a majority on a strategic Knesset committee.
Israel needed to act swiftly and forcefully as soon as the trouble started because the Arab world was watching… and we failed that test.
Better to bake him a casserole
There is a growing problem in Israel and especially in Jerusalem lately: Arabs are increasing a spiral of attacks on people identified as religious Jews.
By Paul Gherkin
The facts that Palestinians are the most anti-Semitic group in the world, voted a Holocaust denier to the presidency and a terrorist group with a charter which reads like a combination of Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion to 58% of its parliament, never make it into the pages of the anti-Zionist Gray Lady.
By Jeff Dunetz
Study Shows Young White Liberals Are More Likely To Suffer From Mental Health Issues
Why are there so many Jewish anti-Zionists? Why do so many Jews take the side of their enemies,?
Here's an experiment: Ask 10 of the Jewiest Jews you can find, the ones with black hats and beards, get them drunk, and ask them if they would prefer that their daughter marry a white gentile or a Black Jew.
According to the JCRC, uplifting the voices of the worst sorts of deranged antisemitism from the Left isn’t a problem, but Morton Klein condemning BLM, Soros, and other Jewhaters is a crisis.
I was so much indebted to these heroes; what more could I do to keep their memories alive?
Can we only help a brother in need if we agree with his ideology?
By Jeff Dunetz
The VAST majority of Cops Are Heroes-Chauvin Was A Disgrace
One of the reasons that Israel has been so successful, despite the challenges it has faced from its external enemies and internal tensions and the complications created by its internal minority, is its sense of national purpose as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
By Tzvi Fishman
One cannot rightly call a community a “light to the nations” when more than half of it is assimilating. It isn’t a light even unto itself.
What we have here is a game of "Mexican chicken" to see who blinks first. There cannot really be a viable left-wing/Arab/fake right government – the numbers just aren't there.
By Jeff Dunetz
Lexington And Concord Attacked, Patriots Fight Back
By JoeSettler
Perhaps the race isn't really between the current party leaders at all...
Is the truth about the enemies amongst us so unpleasant and unwelcome that we rather continue the charade than face it honestly?
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Just ask the Black Lives Matter founder who went from a year in which the hate group's race rioters burned buildings and terrorized communities to buying a $1.4 million home in the mostly white Topanga Canyon through a corporate entity.
"High" court injustice
Could there be an Arab consciousness that is truly accepting of the fact of a Jewish state, a consciousness that understands that there is nothing fundamentally illegitimate about the state, and one that can see the decision to live as a minority in a state that belongs to someone else as not shameful?
The sun sets above the hills. The siren cries out and on the busy highways that wend among the hills, the traffic stops, the people stop, and a moment of silence comes to a noisy country. Flags fly at half mast, the torch of remembrance is lit, memorial candles are held in shaking hands and the country's own version of the Flanders Field poppy, the Red Everlasting daisy, dubbed Blood of the Maccabees, adorns lapels. And so begins the Yom Hazikaron, Heroes Remembrance Day, the day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and victims of terror-- Israel's Memorial Day.
By Jeff Dunetz
The Defense Secretary Claimed Biden's Commitment To Israel Is Ironclad Has He Noticed What The President Has Done In Only Three Months?
The Biden administration and its point man developing a plan to legitimize Hamas, gaining the support of the Europeans and the Russians, and then imposing it on Israel.
Does this government – and the system running it – need a major overhaul? For sure! But it’s my imperfect government, so I take the good with the bad.
By Jeff Dunetz
{Reposted from The Lid} What’s a billion dollars to a multi-billionaire? Probably nothing. But what’s a billion dollars to a man with an ego the size of Donald Trump’s? Probably a lot. Trump’s net worth. That being said, the former POTUS probably didn’t care about losing money. He knew what he was getting into when […]
Troops brought to DC slept in a cold parking garage, were fed tainted meat, food with metal shavings and worms--Nothing but the best for the troops. The massive flood of illegal alien migrants poured across the border, coming to receive the illegal amnesty Biden promised them. They got a better deal. No cold parking garage floors for future Democrat voters and no food with metal shavings.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, after receiving the mandate to form a coalition government from President Rivlin, continues to try to do just that.
Biden would like to get back into bed with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Not only was restoring Obama’s Iran nuclear sellout one of the biggest foreign policy pledges of his campaign, but the Democrat pol has been funded by the Iran lobby for much of his career.
By D.J. Kolpak
The Democratic primary for NY City Council Member is heating up quickly.
By Jeff Dunetz
It's Long Past Time For Biden To Put On His Big Boy Pants And Restore The Trump Programs He Cancelled
By Sheri Oz
Abbas is even being called the “Kingmaker” and a new political “star” as debate rages among the Israeli public regarding whether or not his party should be invited into the coalition that is very hard to put together without his four seats.
Biden’s people say that his move to return to Barack Obama’s JCPOA, the nuclear agreement with Iran, is the only reasonable path. After all, they argue that Donald Trump’s policy of “maximum pressure” failed
Presumptuous of Jews to think they can be not under Islamic domination.
By Jeff Dunetz
Local Democratic Leaders Who Were Involved In Vaccine Decision BLAST CBS News Hit Job
By Jeff Dunetz
How Eisenhower Assured The Horrors Would Never Be Forgotten
This is no way to run a country. True leaders need to be color blind. You look for the best people and hire them
By Tzvi Fishman
We have managed to survive here due to Divine Providence alone.
Certainly the highlight of the process, at least for me, was Naftali Bennett's nominating himself.
If Biden chose to continue Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign, along with supporting the regional alliance against Iran, Israel’s special operations, and the strong domestic Iranian opposition, it might have been possible to bring down the regime.
And indeed, the climax of the Holocaust was the Second Exodus, the Jews of Europe coming to the Promised Land. To this there can be no question.
Bennett, whose party has a total of seven seats, is probably not going to be Prime Minister this time. I will go out on a limb and predict that Bibi will manage to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat once again.
In Israel Arab MKs have determined the path of the Jewish state at some of its most vital junctures like Oslo and the expulsions of Gush Katif and Shomron. Arab votes decided.