Controversial Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to power as leader of the most rightwing government in Israel’s history. Israel is governed by a multiparty parliamentary system, and Netanyahu stitched together a coalition of ultranationalist and religious parties. The Associat[...]
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What aid does the U.S. give Israel?
Currently, about $3.8 billion a year, nearly all of it military assistance. Read story here. Did you know Israel’s “Iron Dome” defense system against Palestinian rocket attacks is largely financed by the U.S. under Obama-era aid policies? For an in-depth look at Biden’s break[...]
Is Democrats’ love affair with Israel over?
Democrats’ traditional support for Israel isn’t hard to figure out. For over a century, Jewish voters have overwhelmingly voted Democratic (see chart here). This held right up through the 2020 election; in fact, McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012 did significantly better among this demogr[...]
Dr. Fauci wins “Israeli Nobel Prize” for defending science
The Dan David Foundation based at Tel Aviv University awarded Dr. Fauci the Dan David Prize for “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis,” The Hill reported on Monday, February 15, 2021. The announcement doesn’t identify the &[...]
Jonathan Pollard arrives in Israel
Jonathan Pollard (photo, right), 66, spied for Israel while a Naval Intelligence analyst. He served 30 years in prison, was paroled in November 2015, and released from parole in November 2020. After lingering in the U.S. for several weeks due to his wife’s health, he flew with her to Israel on[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: When Iran Befriended Israel
Chronicles 15:13 has a lot to say beyond what is celebrated on Purim All who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman. What is the “Chronicles ?” (parts from Wikipedia) A late addition to Jewish historical writings, pos[...]
Israel is Losing the Battle of the Schools and Its Soul
The Zionist dream was that Israel would be a normal nation .. with farmers and doctors, engineers, whores, garbage collectors, and soldiers. To make that dream happen the Zionists irrigated the land, made the desert bloom with communal farms, planted orange groves and olive trees, and built hosp[...]
Scoop: U.S. pushing Arab states for non-belligerence pacts with Israel
Barak Ravid of Israel’s Channel 13 news is reporting that the Trump administration is trying to lubricate the impasse between Israel and its neighbors by encouraging an aggression pacts as a step to peace. Israeli, Arab and U.S. sources tell Mr. Ravid that President Trump’s deputy national s[...]
Israel’s Trump Indicted
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face indictments in all three corruption cases against him — for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The similarity to Trump is all too obvious, including Trumpian entanglement with Jewish lawyers who make my Jewish skin crawl. In the Israeli syste[...]
Israel is failing as a Zionist state.
Trump and Netanyahu make a great pair. Creatures, religious hypocrites, celebrated by religious fundamentalists who have no devotion to democracy and certainly no devotion to the founding ideals of the Zionists. Zionism was intended to create a secular state for all Jews. Now only the Charedim, th[...]