Remembrance Day – also known as Armistice Day, Poppy Day or Veterans Day in various countries – is observed throughout most of the Western World. It is not officially commemorated in Israel (although it is remembered by Jewish war veterans in...

Image via Wikipedia In my previous blog post, I looked at the last days of Apartheid South Africa, and the eerie parallels between the attitudes of White South Africans at the time, and the apparent mindset of much of Israel today. In both cases,...

Image via Wikipedia What does this have to do with a blog on Israel and Jewish affairs? Having lived through the fall of Apartheid and the all-too brief honeymoon period that followed, I find a number of eerie parallels between attitudes and beliefs...

Image via Wikipedia According to the concluding paragraph of an article entitled “Only aliyah can save Israel” by Uzi Silber: So what then is the solution? Barring unforeseen miracles, mass Jewish immigration to Israel by the hundreds of...

I think there needs to be a Palestinian state (or a Palestinian entity that’s something less than a state). Not because the Palestinians desire or deserve it; they don’t (there has never been a less deserving people). Rather, because Israel...