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Category Archives: Israel
The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman
Only a naive person could think this story strange. There are no permanent allies, there are only shifting alliances. Report: “Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one … Continue reading
JTA: Five Shocking Quotes From Israel’s Chief Rabbis
I don’t find these quotes shocking. They are basic Torah or a basic function of social identity (the more strongly you identify with your group, the more likely you are to have negative views of outsiders). (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardic … Continue reading
BBC: Israel’s Cellebrite linked to FBI’s iPhone hack attempt
Steve Sailer: Anybody ever notice that Israel’s economy seems to have a comparative advantage at snooping on other country’s phone calls? * Decrypting data stored locally on a telephone flash memory drive and intercepting phone calls are different technologies without … Continue reading
Chief Sephardi Rabbi Says non-Jews Forbidden From Living in the Land of Israel
This is basic Torah. You might argue the Torah is wrong, but what this rabbi is saying has been the Jewish position for millennia. Every group views itself as the center of the world. Haaretz: Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef argues that … Continue reading
Benzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, calls to ban Christmas in the Holy Land: ‘Let us remove the vampires before they once again drink our blood.’
This guy doesn’t bother me any more than gentiles who call for their own countries to be free of Jews. The stronger you are in your particular identity, the more likely you are to be hostile to outsiders. That’s how … Continue reading
Ricky Vaughn: Is the Golem of academia going to be the downfall of American Jewry?
John Schindler tweets: “Nice how our glorious civilization ended in an infinite discussion of which aggrieved group has greater privilege.” Daily Beast: This month, a student group at Brown University launched a petition to pressure Janet Mock into canceling her … Continue reading
Watch Out, Jewish Students: The anti-Israel Movement Will Boycott You Next
From Haaretz: Recent events at Brown University reflect a frightening new stage to the BDS movement: targeting Jewish students and institutions that don’t explicitly distance themselves from Israel. Janet Mock was born in Honolulu in 1983 to an African-American father … Continue reading
How’s Israel Doing Assimilating Its Muslims?
Comments to Steve Sailer: * Israel’s Arab citizens (20% of its population; most of whom are Muslim) are much better integrated than French or Belgian Muslims. * Mondoweiss: Jews and Arabs don’t really mix much in Israel. They attend separate … Continue reading
Making The Negev Bloom
Facebook: Who could imagine that one day the Negev Desert would ever be like this, such is the blessing of Hashem that after two thousand years of desert land today Israel is a nation blessed like the earth, Baruch Hashem! … Continue reading
Israeli Hotline Attacks Mixed Marriages
Daily Mail: Racist extremists who set up a ‘hotline’ to inform on Jews in a relationship with ‘Arabs’ and who targeted Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are openly peddling hate and violence – but the Israeli government won’t act. Lehava, a … Continue reading