Amiram’s Observations

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 [...]

It’s the eve of Memorial Day in Israel. And attending the ceremony at the Israeli embassy, I was swept at once, unprepared, to the past. To my own past, but most importantly to the nation’s. An old nation, continuously embattled, persecuted and tortured. For thousands of years. Relentlessly, brutally, globally. [...]