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Category Archives: Israel
Time For Americans To Get Israeli Rude About Immigration?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * In public, Americans often act very upbeat about immigration and diversity. Mostly to appear polite and accomodating. Expressing rudeness and unpleasantness in public is generally not how Americans do things. Unfortunately, that leads towards oligarchs … Continue reading
Haaretz: Trump’s Desire for America to Emulate Israel Is Bad for the Jews
Steve Sailer writes: I’ve always admired Israel and have frequently recommended that Americans study Israel’s hard-headed policies and attitudes for models for our own country. Donald Trump appears to feel much the same way. From the Israeli broadsheet Haaretz: On … Continue reading
Israel’s Triumph Of The Will
Comments at Steve Sailer: * The choice of Hebrew was quite conscious and it had nothing to do with practical considerations. The Zionist pioneers had to reconstruct a nation from the ground up and somehow re-connect themselves to this land … Continue reading
Terror Attack In Tel Aviv
Israeli resident Brad Salzman posts on FB: A terror attack in Tel Aviv last night wounded 20 Jews and killed 4. Not looking forward to all the sadface hashtags and FB posts whining about how Israel is a victim and … Continue reading
Black Americans and Israel
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: In an atmosphere of growing racial tension and facing up to pockets of racism within our own community, it is great to see some people doing something about both problems. No strangers to creating kiddush Hashem, … Continue reading
Touring Israel With The Museum of the Bible (MOTB)
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein writes: An Orthodox young woman who works for MOTB argued that the greatest change she has seen in a decade is that Israelis have learned how to do a traffic merge – quite a change from the … Continue reading
LAT: Bernie Sanders moves toward a fight over Israel, forcing Hillary Clinton to navigate a splintered party
Los Angeles Times: “A large majority of Americans strongly support Israel, according to polls, but the Democratic Party is increasingly torn over some of the actions of the Israeli government and how much sympathy to accord the plight of Palestinians.” … Continue reading
Transgender Israeli Arab Wins Historic Tel Aviv Pageant
Another reason to support Israel! Or not. I mean, would it bother you if your son or daughter married a transgendered person? And if so, why would it bother you? A friend says: “I actually think that is the question … Continue reading
Which one of these presidents was toughest on Israel?
Another way of framing the same question is asking which U.S. president was strongest on pursuing America’s interests. As Israel and America are different countries, they often have different interests. Dennis Ross writes: Have the United States and Israel ever … Continue reading
JTA: Warmonger or humanitarian? Getting to know Avigdor Lieberman
In different contexts, the same people are likely to be warmongers or humanitarians. Sometimes, to be humane to your own people, you have to wage war on your enemies. Israel, if it is to survive as a Jewish state in … Continue reading