I’ve been watching the troubled Middle East and other Muslim countries with awe in the last year. Before I continue, let me put one thing right on table. I was born and raised in Israel, I lived in the United States of America for a dozen years, and in The People’s Republic of China for [...]
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The exchange deal for Gilad Shalit is mind boggling, heart ripping, impossible, unfair. It’s terrible in the present, and has a potential to be even worse in the future. There’s nothing good in it. Except one thing. A POW (Prisoner of War) will be coming home. He will come home alive, unlike some other MIAs [...] Israel is on fire. Since Thursday morning, Mount Carmel is burning. So far, 35 square kilometers of natural forest have been burned. Four million trees charred. A platoon of cadets called in to evacuate a prison, got caught in the fire. Forty one of them burned to death after saving many many lives. As it [...] The picture below broke a personal record for me. The elapsed time between seeing this picture and the first tear could be measured in nanoseconds. But that was one record broken, there were a few more. The parade of feelings and memories. Personal, familial, tribal and global all came streaming. [...] I love BBC, I usually think that it’s a good source of information. Mostly impartial. Mostly. Today is Israel’s Independence Day, and I’m watching BBC “coverage”. BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation. To some, even the mention of “British” brings up memories of occupation, colonialism, imperialism, and the famous “The [...] |
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