Khaled Aub Toameh has written an excellent article entitled What does “pro-Palestinian” really mean
He writes that “In recent years there has been a significant rise in the number of non-Palestinians who describe themselves as “pro-Palestinian” activists…. What is striking is that many of these “pro-Palestinian” activists have never been to the Middle East, let alone the [...]
Rupert Murdoch has been a shining light amid the generally dark anti-Israel patch of commentary on the Middle East. But is this going to change?
Reports indicate that Prince Ahlwaleed of Saudi Arabia, a nephew of the Saudi King, and the 22nd richest man, is increasing his percentage interest in News Corp, as reported here.
Alwaleed is already the second largest [...]
Earlier this week, the Age carried a story on page three entitled ‘Welcome mat pulled from Israeli academic’ by Jason Koutsoukis. The article concerns the cancellation of a visit by Naomi Chazan, who was due to speak here in Melbourne next week.
Although Dr Danny Lamm, the President of the Zionist Council of Victoria, was quoted [...]
It is gratifying to see that some purposeful pressure can sometimes overturn anti-Israel bias.
This link details correspondence that ensued when Israeli doctors were excluded from a recent conference in Egypt sponsored by “Susan G Komen for the Cure”, the world’s largest breast cancer advocacy organization (distributing $60 million for breast cancer research last year).
The goal of the conference in Alexandria, Egypt, was to [...]
This is the parasha in which the giving of the Ten Commandments is the centre-piece. The revelation of G-d’s statements to the Jewish people at Mt Sinai, statements made as an all-powerful G-d, at the same time a personal G-d, occurred amidst the thunder and awe.
The parasha is named for Yitro, the father-in-law of [...]
The story doing the rounds in the last few days has been that 2 Israeli officers were disciplined for inappropriately firing white phosphorous shells. This information was predictably seized upon by the cognescenti.
But now, it turns out that the officers had fired regular artillary shells, NOT white phosphorous shells. Melanie Phillips in this article explains the confusion [...]
The issue of disproportionality always rears its head when Israel is involved.. except of course when the aid it provided to Haiti was quite disproportionate to its size.
Nonetheless, its useful to consider several aspects of it.
Firstly, Alan Dershowitz last year here - describes how a Hamas attack which hit a Sderot kindergarten could have killed 46 children. Fortunately [...]
Caroline Glick provides her clear perspective of the current political situation in a video recording here.
In the interview, it was interesting to hear that she set up the Israeli satire program latma to help provide a balance to much of the appeasement voices that are coming out of Israeli and Western media.
Here is one clever episode lampooning [...]
I was interested to read that Princess Alice, the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is buried on the Mount of Olives. The Frommers guide has a fascinating paragraph about Princess Alice, as part of their tour of East Jerusalem.
The guide states that “in 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Greece, Princess Alice learned that [...]
“When Pharaoh sent out the people,G-d did not lead them by way of the land of the Phillistines,….but led the people towards the way of the wilderness, to the Sea of Reeds.
The comment of R’ Eli Munk was that they were not yet ready to wage war with the Philistines, they did not yet have [...]