Encouraging Children to Engage in Acts of War: Struggle, Jihad and Martyrdom in Schoolbooks...
Palestinian Authority (PA) schoolbooks used by UNRWA in its schools in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip promote the goal of a violent struggle for the liberation of Palestine. That struggle, which is...
The Lion Hunter of Zion
http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2013/04/the-lion-hunter-of-zion.html
(Cross-posted at The Times of Israel )
In his youth, King David proved his heroism by slaying a lion. He went on to put his life on the line for the Jewish People and become...
Palestinian Reactions on Jerusalem – “Popular Protests” Are Not Spontaneous
The Palestinians’ threats of a new wave of violence prove again that the “spontaneous popular protest” are pre-planned actions by the senior echelon of the Palestinian leadership.
A Palestinian call in social media to action...
Geneva Discord
The Geneva Initiative has been offered, with much fanfare, as the final peace solution in the Middle East. However, its significant defects would place Israel in a perpetual state of defense, while doing nothing...
Historical Approach to the Issue of Legality of Jewish Settlement Activity
... The Jewish right of settlement in the West Bank is conferred by the same provisions of the Mandate under which Jews settled in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem before the State of Israel...
Yes, we know the Palestinian Authority sponsors terror
Recent moves of the US administration on the Palestinian arena (deducting $200 million from US aid and probably adopting a new approach on Palestinian refugees) are signs that as we approach the 25th anniversary...
Remembering Hillel Kook: A Giant of 20th century Jewish history
One of the drawbacks of longevity is that when that person dies, his impact on history may be lost on a new generation who did not know who he was. Such is the case...
Nakba: The Arab Self-Inflicted Catastrophe
As the British began to dismantle their Mandate and leave western Palestine, Israel’s War of Independence began (November 30, 1947 – May 14, 1948). During the war, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the...
Boycotters’ fiesta
Fiestas originated in pagan traditions and became celebrated events under Spanish rule.
Michael Kuttner
It is rather fitting that fiestas have a Spanish flavour because the latest spate of these boycotting phenomena have the same common...
La La Land
This colloquial term’s definition is: “a euphoric, dreamlike mental state detached from the harsher realities of life.”
With this week’s visit by the President of the United States, recent pontifications by the President of the...