As we approach a total of 400 aerial attacks launched from Gaza since the cease fire which halted Israel’s Cast Lead’ military incursion into Gaza on January 19, 2009, an upgraded Qassam rocket scored a direct hit on the ceiling of children’s hydrotherapy rehabilitation center on Saturday night, August 1, located in the heart of Sderot’s Sapir College.
Canada is tied with Israel (and Switzerland and Australia) as the world’s eighth happiest country out of 155 surveyed, according to a Gallup World Poll posted by Forbes last Thursday, July 31, 2010.
To: Mr. Dov Schwartz, Spokesman for General Dayton
From: David Bedein, Center for Near East Policy Research and Israel Resource News Agency
In the seminal report, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Syria, and Libya,” written in 1990, Kenneth Timmerman first exposed Iran’s expansion of conventional forces and unconventional weapons. Although published 20 years ago, Iran continues to remilitarize without question.
[Editor’s note: Dr. Mohammed Wattad is an Israeli Arab lawyer who was in Winnipeg earlier this year to combat Israel Apartheid Week on University of Manitoba campus. This article was first published in Maariv on July 1, 2010 and is being reprinted with permission.]
When Israel boarded another ship bound for Gaza last weekend and escorted it to an Israeli portwithout incident, it demonstrated to me that both sides, Israel and the activists, hold blame for the aid-ship melee the week before.
[This article first appeared in the Jerusalem Post on June 15 and is being reprinted with permission.]
TO SURVIVE, PALESTINIANS NEED AN ELECTION SYSTEM THAT WILL RESULT IN TRUE PREPRESENTATION RATHER THAN THE FAILED ONE THAT HAS SPUTTERED ON AND OFF.
Parliamentary systems do not really work in the Arab world. It definitely doesn’t work in Palestine, where coalitions are hard to establish and people vote not on the basis of issues but on ethnicity, religion, tribes and clans.
Lesson #9: EASY ISN’T NECESSARILY BETTER
During a short visit to Canada last summer, my daughter Rachel turned to me and said; “why don’t we stay in Canada? It is so much easier here. We know people, we feel comfortable, we speak the language and we know our way around.
Anger over Gaza is a distraction. We cannot forget that Israel is the West’s best ally in a turbulent region.
For far too long now it has been unfashionable in Europe to speak up for Israel. In the wake of the recent incident on board a ship full of anti-Israeli activists in the Mediterranean, it is hard to think of a more unpopular cause to champion.
This article was first published in YNET on June 13, and is being reprinted with permission
Exactly three years ago, members of Hamas’ operational force hurled Fatah commanders in Gaza off 17-floor buildings. The fortunate ones managed to flee to Ramallah via Israel.
This article was first published in the National Post on June 10, 2010.
Human life, being created by God, is sacred. This is at the core of all ethical monotheistic religions and the societies they helped create. From a purely secular perspective, a culture that does not consider the taking of a life to be the ultimate transgression will deteriorate, slowly or rapidly, into decadence and cruelty, as borne out by much of the 20th century.
Jerusalem, Israel; Numerous Israeli companies have begun either to sever or to suspend their commercial relations with Turkey in the wake of the flotilla to Gaza.
As the international community rushes to condemn Israel for the violence on board one of the ships in the Gaza flotilla, which left a reported 10 people dead and dozens injured, it is now obvious that the real purpose of this ‘armada of hate’ was not merely the further delegitimisation of Israel but something far worse.
**This story which first appeared on our website March 18 has made it to the website of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) in New York, The Telegraph. It has also has been picked up on the website of Jewish Press International.
