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Heckler disrupts Peres in Oxford

19-Nov-08

President Shimon Peres gave a lecture at Oxford University yesterday. In the middle of his speech, a man tried to approach him from the audience, while shouting “You’re responsible for the massacre of hundreds of people. You’re responsible for an apartheid state.”
Press this link to watch the incident.
Among other things, Peres noted that the election [...]

The US Elections and Israel

04-Nov-08

I was asked to provide my take on the Impact of the US elections on Israel. I got a little carried away….
In terms of the US elections and impact on Israel.

I think that the impact is significant and that we are all aware of it especially in these hard financial times. The relationship between [...]

Resistance is Futile, Obama is everywhere

30-Oct-08

5 days to the general elections in the United States of America. Different polls show completely different numbers (has the polls lost their credibility?). Nevertheless, in all these polls, Obama is leading over John McCain — and at this point, an Obama victory is an almost certain event.
Despite this tiny fact, Obama is restless! Yesterday [...]

Liking the Kid or Is Obama good for Israel?

16-Oct-08

Are Israelis really for Obama? I am not sure. I came across this ad for Obama. It’s a campaign piece but it made me think a little.
Today the front pages of the newspapers were showing the pearls of wisdom provided for us by the good Rev. Jessy Jackson. I clearly remember the famous Haimi speech [...]

Love Cards from Washington

07-Oct-08

The Taglit organization (Birthright Israel) has done the unbelievable, and managed to bring together this season’s bitter adversaries.

US Elections coming to a Synagogue near you

15-Aug-08

Unbelievable! Check out these Kippahs at VanityKippah.com:

Coming Up This Week

20-Jul-08

Exclusive: News headlines from the future!

Monday: Barack Obama arrives in Jerusalem. A new state’s witness is claiming he saw Senator Obama handing PM Olmert a fat white envelope.
Tuesday: Gilad Shalit’s IDF comrades disposed today of their olive uniforms after 3 long years, as they reenter civic life. Nothing funny to say about this.
Wednesday: In their [...]

All hearts face North, not West

15-Jul-08

According to well-informed predictions, the highly anticipated prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah is set to take place tomorrow morning (Wednesday, July 16) in Rosh Ha’Nikra - Israel’s northernmost border post along the Mediterranean Sea.

Why would anyone want to be a politician - Part 2

04-Jun-08

Barack Obama finally clinched the desired amount of delegates to win the Democratic Party nomination. I searched the internet and tried to locate a speech or a statement in which Obama declares why he decided to enter the presidential race. I couldn’t find it — and I’d thank the readers if they could refer me [...]

Obama’d!

20-Mar-08

After the story about Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s black supremacist, anti-semitic, troofer pastor (“Jesus was a poor black man who lived in a country controlled by rich white people…”) broke this week in the mainstream media, many Americans and non-Americans are scratching their heads, mumbling to themselves, “Really?”
The Wright story comes on the heels of [...]