Language is exceedingly important. Words are like double-edged swords because they cut both ways. Not only do they “describe” reality but they, with induce a virtual reality. Use a word often enough and it takes on a life of its own through the visual and contextual imagery the words connote. It is rather ironic that…
Category: Commentary
Glick: The Return of the Rule of Law
Last October when the Palestinians began their latest round of terrorist war against Israel, lawmakers from the Joint Arab List participated in mass anti-Israel rallies in major Arab towns. One such rally in Nazareth in mid-October attracted some 2,500 participants. After it ended, some demonstrators started throwing rocks at Jews. The next day, MK Ayman…
How Israel got “Taken”
My thoughts upon reading this article from Mosaic; I appreciate Oren’s revelations re Obama’s take on Israel but, from this article, it seems he is late to the party. We now applaud Dershowitz for his support of Israel’s stance on Iran, but he too is late to the party, as are many new-found Isreal supporters in…
The New [Israeli] Government’s War on BDS
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government is less than a month old, but it’s already apparent that it is different from its predecessors. And if it continues on its current diplomatic trajectory, it may do something that its six predecessors failed to accomplish. Netanyahu’s new government may improve Israel’s position internationally. The stakes are high….
Obama, Anti-Semitism, and the “3 Ds”
From Commentary Magazine: 04.21.15 – 12:00 AM | by Noah Pollak In his 2004 book, The Case for Democracy, the Soviet dissident turned Israeli politician Natan Sharansky argues that the West can win the long struggle with the Middle East’s authoritarian and Islamist states by promoting liberalism and freedom in the region’s closed societies. Sharansky…
Judaism vs. Humanism
Karin McQuillan recently posed the question, Are Jews Traumatized? Ms. McQuillan indicates that she is a psychotherapist trying to fathom the unconscious psychodynamics of the Jew-hating voiced by a professor of Judaism at Brandeis University. Ms. McQuillan’s answer is that the traumata of historic or contemporary anti-Semitism is the primary cause of institutional Jew-hating at…
We Passed that Law Last Year!
There was a recent article in the Israeli press regarding an interesting problem. It seems that over the past few years the Knesset (Israeli parliament) has passed at least 10 laws regarding various Israel social issues that have not yet been implemented. Why not? Well it seems that while the laws have been passed, the…