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Why colluding with Israeli aggression is a bad idea. Many years ago, I participated in a wargame whose primary thesis was – what happens if Israel acts unilaterally and drags us into a war not of our own choosing. Turns out it was prophetic. The premise of the game was
For the learning impaired in the back: 1) The US and Israel are the bad guys here. This is not self-defense; this is unwarranted aggression. It is a war of choice, a discretionary war. An unnecessary war started by a deranged idiot at Netanyahu’s bidding to keep Netanyahu in power.
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For someone who graduated from Harvard, he needs to relearn his history. I lived and worked in Germany and Israel for a good deal of time from 2011 to 2020. I’m very familiar with the history of Palestine from biblical times through our current era. So, like many others, I
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And the second act is still waiting for the curtain to open, on a more hideous chapter of the play? Like many Americans, I was elated when it became clear that Donald Trump had lost the election. I’ve been writing about how dangerous he and his band of totalitarian wannabes
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After an over four-year layoff, the Israeli television series, Shtisel is back on Netflix. I first wrote about the show two years ago. The show originally aired on the Yes Drama network in Israel in 2013. It ran for two seasons from 2013 to 2016, and in 2019, it was
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But sometimes, that change is for the worse – not for the better. Certainly, that was the case with Sheldon Adelson, who died yesterday at the age of 87. His legacy is NOT a good one. He destroyed politics in not just his own country but in Israel as well.
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Is the Hebrew phrase for, “Next year in Jerusalem”. ( לשנה הבאה בירושלים). A couple of things have been making me think of that phrase this past week. Today, for example, is Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day. It happens right before the week of Israel’s Memorial Day and Independence Day.
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Another week down and it’s Thursday again. With events in the Middle East heating up and as a nod to my previous post about Israeli TV, I thought I would do a throwback post to how Israel fucked up my plans for some primo liberty back in England in 1982.
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Is an Israeli TV show that is running on Netflix. I started watching it off and on during my trips to Israel late last fall and in the spring when I was there for a few weeks. I didn’t really get into it though, watching bits and pieces of it,
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Without a doubt, one of the foremost highlights of my time here in Europe has been the work I have been privileged to do in Israel. To be able to have been there for protracted periods, learn the language and see the society has been a fond memory for me
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