Dear Jews of the Diaspora I have been thinking about you and I can’t escape a recurring thought. Why are you still there? What are you waiting for? Surely 73 years is long enough for you to make arrangements to come home and if that’s not long enough then the last 2,000 years surely have […]
Continue readingThe team at Achdut HaLev have taken a break this week in order to recharge our batteries and will be back with more comment on current affairs next week. Till then I leave you with this thought. Here in Israel, our politicians are wrestling for the moral high ground without much success. The one exception […]
Continue readingNetanyahu on Gaza rockets; “Our enemies should not test us.” To the Prime Minister; Whether it’s Arabs assaulting Jews in the streets of Jerusalem or Arabs launching rockets into the State of Israel it’s no longer a case of if these thugs test us they are testing us and as usual, Netanyahu talks the talk […]
Continue readingUnited Torah Judaism chairman MK Moshe Gafni told Kol Barama radio on Sunday evening that he held Bezalel Smotrich head of the Religious Zionist party responsible for Netanyahu’s failure to form a right-wing government. Gafni’s anger leaves me mystified and somewhat bemused. What is the Religious Zionist leader actually guilty of? Yes, he is, without […]
Continue readingThe following is from a comment I left on the Jerusalem Post comment section 21/04/01… Titled article Europeans warn against attacks on Iran nuclear facilities April 21, 2021. Not much good has come out of Vienna since the Viennese schnitzel and the occasional Viennese Waltz and of cause it was downhill from there after corporal […]
Continue readingSeventy-eight years ago today April 19, 1943, a handful of Jews refused to bend the knee and submit to annihilation by their Nazi tormentors. Before that day Thousands of Jewish communities had suffered the fate of annihilation at the hands of cultured Europeans who planned and executed in deceit, with methodical precision that which could […]
Continue readingWhile the US under President Biden has predictably started the process of return to the 2015 Nuclear deal his administration has accepted a deal with no changes from the original agreement brokered during President Obama’s second term, and will in fact compensate Iran for any losses it may have incurred due to the sanctions imposed […]
Continue readingWhat kind of Jewish Israeli political party would seriously consider forming a coalition with Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party that agitates for a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital while declaring all the land is occupied by the Zionist entity and seeking to dismantle Jewish settlements as part of their Judenrein policy reminiscent of Hitler’s […]
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