Richard, I agree completely and identify completely with your refusal to prove your patriotism to people who accuse of you of hating Israel. It’s degrading, and I won’t do it in
I felt ambivalent about Larry’s post about Israeli patriotism for a number of reasons, but the main one is that patriotism, as that wise saying
I have a right-wing, ex-Israeli relative who loves to bait my liberal outrage, and I imagine him saying, ”You weren’t proud of Netanyahu’s speech at Congress? You didn’t
I might go a little farther than Churchill’s famous quotation above and say that perhaps we are near the beginning of the end of the Occupation. All
Israel’s leading opposition party, Kadima (Forward), and its great white hope, Tzipi Livni, showed once again that they are the true leaders of the peace
The Jerusalem Post Magazine, May 27, 2011 We were having dinner on Yom Ha’atzma’ut at some friends’ apartment in Modi’in, and to give the table
(“Rattling the Cage,” The Jerusalem Post, May 25, 2011) With that Salute to Judea and Samaria he just staged in Washington, our wise and fearless
After Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, I think he’s strengthened the Palestinians’ drive for statehood. Offering nothing, blaming everything on the other side while casting himself and
I’m glad, and frankly surprised, that Obama stuck to his guns at the AIPAC speech today. Instead of steering away from his support for the ’67
I’ve written a lot of stories about the refugees from Southern Sudan since they started coming to Israel five years ago. Most of the articles were critical
